In other words Walmart needs more workers to stock the ever growing extra multiple cases of Pearl Milling Pancake Syrup that isn’t selling in the Frozen Department aisles, the sporting good aisles, and hard ware aisles and any where else they can put the damn stuff that isn’t selling. Maybe they can put the stuff in the clearance isle next.
Uh, WHY? I know they’ll say that it’s because they might come into contact with people who are more susceptible to having problems if they get the virus, but A) masks don’t work, B), those people are infinitely more likely to encounter the virus in the broad array of interactions that didn’t involve the pharmacist, and C) MASKS DON’T WORK!
”Walmart defined fully vaccinated as receiving the full two-dose regimen of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.”
So only those who have had a “vaccine” that was designed for a virus that no longer exists (Alpha variant), and which does absolutely nothing against the current and likely final version (Omicron variant) get to remove the masks? I guess this is a positive step, but the mess that they’re leaving in place is absurd and based upon delusion.
Not good enough. Drop the “vaccinated employees” bit. There is NO reason or justification for treating the “vaccinated” any differently than the un-jabbed.
Wonderful news! I hope supermarkets (Publix, are you listening?) will do it too.
A political writer had a good phrase about service employees having to wear masks (such as the workers at Obama’s shindigs, etc.) while employers and others (such as Obama) did not: he said that these policies had created a”masked servant class.” Obviously, that’s fine with our lords and masters, and they’d be perfectly happy if this remained in force forever.
That way the underlings can’t talk to them, they don’t have to see those ugly plebeian faces, and the underlings even find it difficult to communicate among themselves undetected by their lords and masters.
Walmart employees in most of the country have largely ditched their masks completely for some time. I suppose in some of the draconian states employees have remained coerced into the masking though. Big box store employees in large measure had to have been really ticked off at enduring the coercion while their customers at large ignored the mandate stuff.
Aside from Wally, there are still private sector employers, from small to large, muzzling their employees in NYS.
BTW, I love the bit about Wally still muzzling employees in healthcare settings.
Using muzzles that aren’t authorized for use in healthcare settings, no doubt.
Someone ought to get in Wally’s grill about that.
Two words for employees: Class action suit.
Wally doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
I think that these companies are finally waking up and listening to their own lawyers about their potential liabilities. Why? Well, the vaccine producers were given sweetheart immunity deals by government, but that does not reduce the potential liability for a private employer who is no longer protected by a legal government mandate (re: USSC’s decision).
I think their lawyers are telling them that there’s likely no defense for an employment mandate that effects a 24/7/365 solution effect on an employee for an on-job solution that just covers their work presences. In other words, an employee who suffers serious medical effects going after the company in a civil damages lawsuit. It only takes one judgment for the full-blown cascade of lawsuits to start. Hungry lawyers are probably licking their chops at this.
“it will no longer require fully vaccinated U.S. employees”
Not good enough. Time to get rid of discrimination based on vaccination status.
“Hopefully more companies will follow.”
Now remove the vaccine crap and things will make sense.
Great! I feel happy for them. Retail employees are the most shafted in the whole charade.
Dump the poison vax mandate.
To Hell with China Mart.
I’m guessing the majority of them had the same mask since March of 2020 from what I’ve seen.
Can’t wait to start telling unmasked store employees how nice it is to see their faces and welcoming them back among free people.
Cases and deaths higher than ever and the narrative changes because of the elections. Slime bucket politicians.
Anecdote: I went to a WallyWorld yesterday to pick up some blades for a carpet knife. I was amazed to see so many shelves completely bare. The shelves that had goods on them were full however as they simply moved things around to other shelves to make it appear that they weren’t short of anything. Must be hell for the stock boys to keep shuffling things from the mostly empty shelves to the fuller ones. “Hey, why are there batteries next to the potato chips?” LOL
