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lanlady

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45. A guy I work who is strongly anti-COVID vax changed his tune when...

Mon May 3, 2021, 06:44 PM

May 2021

... the big boss told him that whenever he travels internationally (which is quite often - it's part of his job), he'll have to quarantine for 10 days since he has not been vaccinated. Company policy, applies to everyone. The 10 days will be taken out of his vacation hours, and when he runs out of those, he'll need to quarantine while on leave without pay.

Guess who picked up the phone and scheduled his first Pfizer vax?

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