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I’m sorry, but unless you have a valid medical exception or written confirmation that travel is not a job requirement, could be grounds for termination. I know in my firm even during COVID we expressed that while travel is not required at the moment, ability to travel up to 80% of the time is a job requirement.
It might help to talk to a therapist to reduce the anxiety around social situations and travel. Otherwise yeah sounds like looking for a new job might be the best course of action as sooner or later you’ll have to travel.
I have the adobe pdf vax, and I've been traveling 50% monthly for a year with no issues, I'm sure your concerns are justified
Genuinely curious, does this mean you don’t go out to dinner, go to the gym, etc?
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Hopefully your group has a big pipeline of work otherwise it may shape up into travel or find a new job
You can communicate your concern , vs outrightly saying no. Unless you think that you will not be as effective remote. Then you have no choice but to pull out.
It’s a valid concern. I got Covid a couple of weeks back. I felt really bad for 3 days.
SC 1, you are correct. Anyone can die after having covid. A quick look at the stats say it’s unlikely.
Never jabbed, never wore a mask, haven’t been sick in years. I can’t wrap my head around why people are afraid of living life. Although it’s anecdotal, the only people I know who have had any lingering negative health issues are those that got jabbed. Most of my circle passed on getting the jab and all have been fine.
If you firmly pushback and say you won’t travel but travel is in your requirements it is grounds for termination. Ideally you wouldn’t do that if your practice bench is heavy. If layoffs follow and the firm needs tiebreakers on who to cut, that’s a variable you should expect them to consider strongly.
If it’s soft pushback phrased as a request, based on what you said you likely know how the Partner is going to react (“no”). If you have a good relationship with them maybe you can trust them to not hold it against you, but otherwise I don’t see what there is to be gained. Particularly if you don’t have an actual health condition putting you at risk, I certainly wouldn’t want a Partner knowing I’m just anxious about something that >95% of my peers aren’t.
Staffing of people with tangible at-risk health issues are one thing (and handled differently by each firm), but COVID anxiety isn’t going to be a defensible excuse these days...in the same vein that general anxiety over flying / airplane safety isn’t a defensible excuse to not travel
I understand where you’re coming from. Would you feel more comfortable if you wore a mask and went to meetings and stuff? That might be an easy option and you can say that you are immunocompromised
I feel the same way and just mask since I have to travel. I am 9 times out of 10 the only one wearing a mask in transit and on site but it is what it is. Haven’t gotten COVID yet so I will continue to mask and balance my in person time. For example I’ll go to in person meetings with the client but may not go to team happy hours and such. I’m also an introvert so really don’t enjoy those anyways. I know some will say I am sacrificing quality team building time but its important to me that I have that balance. I would say communicate your needs and create a balance that works for you.
Unless you have worked out something with your firm not to travel, it is part of the job. Have you told HR or your deployment team that you are not able to travel?
While we have shown that we can be productive remotely, travel is still a part of consulting.
Why do anti-vaxxers universally use the term “jabbed?”
Why do you think individuals who declined to get an ineffective flu shot are anti-vaxers? I have taken plenty of vaccines in my life for diseases that actually kill healthy young people. Simply because I was personally against taking a shot that was more about government control and big pharma profit than anything else, does not make me or anyone with the same beliefs an anti-vaxer. For those that are fat or old (you can’t be fat and old so that’s ruled out) the shot has likely kept them out of the hospital. As an exceptionally healthy 36 year old, there was zero benefit to getting the shot and the 27 boosters.