Appreciation

[metawidget]

It's National Public Service Week; yesterday they used the voice broadcast system to announce treats after lunch served by management on yummy lawn… I thought for a moment it was a fire drill in the middle of my lunch union meeting.

In other news, Cabinet has decided that unvaccinated people aren't a danger to the workplace working from home (for now). I get it, everyone should get vaccinated but if they're not breathing on other union members or the public as part of their jobs and are helping keep my workload down then they can have their strange religious beliefs (whether or not a panel of managers who mostly aren't experts in evaluating religious beliefs like them) and help mitigate labour shortages a bit.

Off duty I had a nice run last night — my June 10k — but twisted my foot/ankle on the gravel path up by P3 so I'm down to walking gingerly and biking for a few days.

Comments

[blogcutter]

Happy Public Service week! If nothing else, I guess the end of the vaccine mandate means fewer grievances from the unvaccinated, although they might still demand back pay or cry constructive dismissal for the period they were on mandatory unpaid leave. And it could give rise to a whole new category of grievances from those who ARE vaccinated! I'm still hoping they scrap the whole ArriveCan thing - I'm beyond frustrated with the web-based version and don't want to have to buy a new smartphone just to get back home from abroad!

[(Anonymous)]

I count myself lucky (that is, it was just barely tolerable and didn't lead to my taking adversarial formal adversarial action). I was unwilling to use the web form interface to declare my vaccination status because it would have required me to lie (this was agreed by a public health nurse). The form was designed to accept only a limited selection of answers that were acceptable according to the published policy. I managed to find a PDF version of the form and printed it and filled it by hand.

Ouch!

[callunavulgaris]

I hope your ankle recovers quickly!

Re: Ouch!

[metawidget]

Seems to be most of the way to better -- my calves are still wondering what hit them, though.