Should I turn down an on-site visit for a job?

submitted by trident765 from self.nonmorons

A place I interviewed with says they want to fly me out to visit the site. It's a fairly high paying job where the minimum salary is higher than my current salary, in a low-cost area. The place is known for paying well. They spoke with me for 2 hours and have already called my references.

The problem is they mandate the stupid vaccine, and unlike my current workplace they offer no religious exemption. They asked me if I am vaccinated yesterday (still haven't responded). You can visit the site without the vaccine, but special arrangements need to be made, which will give away that I am unvaccinated, and therefore unhireable.

I thought a little bit about taking the vaccine, but then I will lose my religious exemption, and will surely be forced into the booster subscription program they are implementing.

What are my options? I feel very bad for having my references spend time talking to these people only for me to throw it all down the drain. Looks like I have to come clean?

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Tell them you care so damn much about covid you aren't willing to fly for a short visit until the pandemic is well over. You want to save lives. Tell them they have to do it remotely.

Send them the article of the vaccinated people on a flight who all got omicron.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/all-14-air-passengers-from-south-africa-with-omicron-were-vaccinated-dutch-authorities

[–]Cornfed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The fact that they have a jab requirement in the first place would tend to suggest that honest attempts at reasoning with them are a waste of time.

[–]Cornfed 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'd think you would want to tell them that you are not interested in taking the lethal injection just to be employed by them, and if they don't employ you then so be it.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

get a fake card

[–]trident765[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The place is a top secret facility and to get a job you need some special ID where the FBI gives you a background check. You have to give references, proof of residence, etc, and they talk to police departments to make sure your background is clean (similar to security clearance or maybe it is a type of security clearance). I am worried that maybe somehow it will be easy for them to tell if I have really been vaccinated from this very thorough background check.

Another thing is that a fake card gets you out of the initial vaccine, but what about the boosters? There is room on a card for 2 boosters, and then afterwards it will be a perpetual struggle to find the next card for the next booster. Also, maybe at some point they will go to a national, digital system, making cards obsolete, and then I can't go back to claiming a religious exemption since I already claimed to be vaccinated.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah especially since I guess the plan is to make people get a booster once a month

If it was once a year I'd say work for a year and then get fired, at least you keep the money, plus maybe the crazy vaccine business is over in a year tho I know that's doubtful. Really you shouldn't try to get a job like that, security clearance etc, that's not for nonmorons these days. Sounds like a job for Winston Smith from 1984.

fake cards are prevalent these days for regular jobs I think only like 50% of people are actually getting the vaccine

[–]Noam_Chomsky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The problem is they mandate the stupid vaccine

Their problem. Not yours.

I feel very bad for having my references spend time talking to these people only for me to throw it all down the drain.

Your references probably don't want you dead, or crippled.

If you don't wanting to discuss the actual reason for hesitation (survival), then indicate you had a bad feeling at the very end of the interview process.

Did they mention the reason the position is open?

Also, the global economy is going to crash any day.
There's a +2.5 quadrillion (+$2,500 trillion) that's been brewing since the previous crash.
It's going to gut every central banking/planning economy. There's no historical analog.

You'll likely be better off living in a familiar area, particularly if it's low cost.
Ideally, in a place where you can grow a vegetable garden.

Don't waste your time traveling for a potential dead end job.