Thread regarding CenturyLink layoffs

When the Mandate Comes

So when it’s my time to leave the company due to the mandate that’s sure to come will I be able to keep my vested pension? I plan to let them walk me out and as I only have a little over 20 years can’t retire yet. No I’m not bitter it’s their company and they can do what they want.

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Post ID: @OP+1d7AB24U

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We're in crisis care status in my state. It's because people refused to get the vaccine. 98% in the ICU are unvaxed. The other 2% are people over 80. No one is forcing you to get a vaccine. You don't have to get the shot and companies aren't required to employ you and put other employees and customers at risk.
Personally I'm so tired of putting up with people whining about their freedoms being taken away. What a bunch of BS! What happened to caring about other people? It's so incredibly selfish...it just makes me sick.

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Post ID: @ymaz+1d7AB24U

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get a clue already. The vaxxed can still get covid and spread it (just ask Psaki), so if you think you'll ever live in a virus free environment, you're just kidding yourself. Where do you think the variants come from? Yep, the vaxxed. That's the virus mutating to evade the jab, then you people turn into superspreaders, gee thanks. Good luck with the never ending boosters.

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Post ID: @uazd+1d7AB24U

So our freedom to be able to work in a virus free environment does not matter to all you screaming but my Freedumbs to not get vaccinated and spread it to others and cost all of us for your treatments, burials and pick up your work load doesn't matter, but hey take your freedumbs it's your Patriotic duty like storming Congress on Jan 6th.

Bro, where are you located? I want to meet you there so I can punch you in the fu----g face.

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Post ID: @smbt+1d7AB24U

What about the work from home people who aren’t exposed to customers or even other employees. The $50 a paycheck fee for not getting vaccinated is complete cr@p. Where’s the stupid Union now?

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Post ID: @fgzi+1d7AB24U

Yep, let them use the “cost of insurance” as another devisive way to cut your freedoms…but haven’t we been talking about the absorbent rise in health insurance rates for many years now, long before COVID! Sadly, these are the same peeps that get to vote too….the great “socialist experiment” to be continued

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Post ID: @bdbs+1d7AB24U

We will never understand how you have come to believe the sheep food. The vaccines don't work but the rebranded horse pill will for all your money. The people who are the healthy don't need this cr-p. Turn off your tv.

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Post ID: @6bem+1d7AB24U

Non Vaxed are 8 times more likely to test positive, non vaxed are 46 more times needed to be hospitalized, non vaxed are 78 more times to die.

So you non vaxed are not only costing all of us a ton more in insurance, and the Feds subsidized Covid Hospital plan but are dieing and costing others a lot of greif and loss.

But hey it's your Freedumbs only right.

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Post ID: @6mfn+1d7AB24U

"So our freedom to be able to work in a virus free environment does not matter to all you screaming but my Freedumbs to not get vaccinated and spread it to others and cost all of us for your treatments, burials and pick up your work load doesn't matter, but hey take your freedumbs it's your Patriotic duty like storming Congress on Jan 6th."

let me clue you in on a secret...vaxxed people can still get infected (and die) & transmit the virus. so good luck in your virus free bubble.

copied straight from the cdc website:

"Infections with the Delta variant in vaccinated persons "potentially" have reduced transmissibility than infections in unvaccinated persons, although additional studies are needed."

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Post ID: @5bjf+1d7AB24U

So our freedom to be able to work in a virus free environment does not matter to all you screaming but my Freedumbs to not get vaccinated and spread it to others and cost all of us for your treatments, burials and pick up your work load doesn't matter, but hey take your freedumbs it's your Patriotic duty like storming Congress on Jan 6th.

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Post ID: @5kmt+1d7AB24U

“ And beside all the legit arguing points It's America a free country and a freedom to choose.”

The Yale Book of Quotations” includes a citation from the June 1919 Harvard Law Review in an article by legal philosopher Zechariah Chafee Jr. titled “Freedom of Speech in War Time,” crediting an anonymous judge: “Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. ‘Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins’.”

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Post ID: @4qhi+1d7AB24U

"Those that are not vaccinated should just back up their positions and file lawsuits that their freedoms are vilolated, I mean if they have all this proof that the Virus is either a Hoax, the Vaccines are fake, they have Micro Chips in them, have tracking devices in them, will cause you to mutate and become a X Men or grow a third eye or anything else there should be no problem right.

Go ahead do it put up and or shut up, but quit spreading false information."

no one has to prove or claim anything, it's freedom of choice..period! please tell me another vax that has ever been mandated for employment, right you can't. I've been here 32 yrs never once mandated to get vaxxed.

the fear campaign clearly worked on you, I'm not afraid of covid, there are many treatments to keep you out of the hospital, so don't let the government scare you.

if you're vaxxed, kudos, you're supposedly protected, so why worry about those who choose not to?

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Post ID: @4chh+1d7AB24U

The false information is saying we are anti Vax or don't belive in the covid. It's the freedom to decide what you put into your body especially something rushed without the same testing as other Vax. How many people do you know who has had covid 2x? It's rare because of the anti bodies that studies show have a better rate then those that never got it and have the Vax. And beside all the legit arguing points It's America a free country and a freedom to choose.

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Post ID: @4mtl+1d7AB24U

Those that are not vaccinated should just back up their positions and file lawsuits that their freedoms are vilolated, I mean if they have all this proof that the Virus is either a Hoax, the Vaccines are fake, they have Micro Chips in them, have tracking devices in them, will cause you to mutate and become a X Men or grow a third eye or anything else there should be no problem right.

Go ahead do it put up and or shut up, but quit spreading false information.

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Post ID: @4yez+1d7AB24U

If youre fully vested you can take your pension and roll it over to an ira. Or you can cash it and take the penalty for early withdrawal. Or i believe, if youre 55 you can cash it without penalty due to certain circumstances. Your choice. Better yet, wait out the stupid mandate. Dont care if anyones vaccinated or not. Do whichever you choose but dont let this shithole company scare you away for what might come. They want you vaccinated but dont give 2 sh--s whether they send you to a customer thats not, or that actually has covid. Wait them out.

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Post ID: @4unk+1d7AB24U

Project Veritas, the far-right disinformation group that has engaged in sting operations and been accused of manufacturing content to promote false narratives such as election fraud and media bias, amplified false information about the Covid-19 vaccines in its latest video

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Post ID: @3yty+1d7AB24U

I wonder if all the vaccinated refused to come to work unless we had 100 percent Vaccinated would get rid of these leeches that want to suck the country dry.

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Post ID: @3pdf+1d7AB24U

I’m hearing that people will just let the company walk them out or just going to quit, over the Vaccine issue. For those that are financially ok, good luck to you.
Think about it. Not a lot of choices out there. All companies are making it mandatory. Don’t get all worked up about it and have to eat your words later, have a strategy in place.

Done. According to the email this week the highest group of unvaccinated are front line workers. The company wants to contract everything anyway. Start a one man contracting company, lease on with them. The job market for outside techs and their skills are a lot more sought after than most would believe.

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Post ID: @2fla+1d7AB24U

I’m hearing that people will just let the company walk them out or just going to quit, over the Vaccine issue. For those that are financially ok, good luck to you.
Think about it. Not a lot of choices out there. All companies are making it mandatory. Don’t get all worked up about it and have to eat your words later, have a strategy in place.

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Post ID: @2urd+1d7AB24U

Civics not going away,it's going to become just another flu bug,which it is already.

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Post ID: @2qrl+1d7AB24U

Your ignorance is showing when you talk about the length of time for a Vaccine to be trusted. Take your first (longest) vaccine development. Yellow Fever Vaccine was attempted in 1912 and failed. Over the course of time the vaccine became more potent. 1912 bio technology is not comparable to 2021 tech. So the unvaccinated is going to wait 35 years before taking in the vaccine based on vaccine development in 1912. If the COVID doesn't go away; you'll all be running for the vaccine no matter the amount of years it's been out.

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Post ID: @2alr+1d7AB24U

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts.

Ruling from 1904. Not sure of it affects us today but wonder if they can I force this.

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Post ID: @1cqh+1d7AB24U

You need to pull up the pension plan rules for the one you fall under since there are several different plans. If you're vested, you can't lose that benefit but if you're not pension eligible under the plan's rules when you leave, you may not be able to take a lump sum or get any benefit until you reach the plan's retirement age.

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Post ID: @1ezh+1d7AB24U

I’m not asking to debate vaccine and as I stated in the OP I just want to know when I’m walked out am I entitled to the pension in which I’m vested?

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Post ID: @1ncr+1d7AB24U

yellow fever vax took 35 years to come up with
polio vax took 45 years
measles took 46 years
influenza took 12
hepatitus a took 22
hepatitus b took 17
hpv took 33
dengue virus took 59
covid 19 took 6 months, there's no way it was fully tested before pumping it into people and as yet no one can tell anyone what the long term effects may be on the human body.

Basically everyone who has gotten it is not only a guinea pig for testing but also a potential victim to adverse side effects.

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Post ID: @1tkp+1d7AB24U

When I was young years ago we stood in line at school to get vaccinated polio ms etc whatever’s it was no questions asked now you people have turned it somehow to a political decision wtf it’s like I am tripping So don’t get it and die a needless death just make sure you get my fiber installed before u die

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Post ID: @wxu+1d7AB24U

"They don’t want their customers and business partners exposed to covid and die."

Which the vaccines do not prevent, nor is there anything more than a negligible risk of that with or without being vaccinated. And those customers and business partners are free to vaccinate themselves if they're so concerned. Fu-k off Na-i, this is still a free country despite authoritarian bootlickers like you.

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Post ID: @nba+1d7AB24U

Are you customer facing? Is this the hill you want to die on?Do research and put it in perspective. All the other companies you can use that 20 years of talent and skill have harsher mandates… McDonald’s won’t even hire you. Smokers at my work pay more per paycheck for insurance because of how the group insurance plans work and how they hurt us all because of their poor choice. They don’t want to pay out while you die or recover in a hospital bed blaming Obama. They don’t want their customers and business partners exposed to covid and die. What monsters.

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