I'll get to the Steve H. letter in a moment, but right off the cuff I've gotta say this is the most disgusting comment I've seen in response to someone losing their life in a workplace accident. If you seriously rank the value of the lives of hundreds U.S. workers at a MITUSA company by a vaccination status and think this is the time and place for it you have serious internal shit to think through.
Steve H. Letter:
Most people that don't work in the front office never saw this posted directly and either didn't hear about it or heard about it from co-workers or eventually from the internet. Not everyone has or often gets into their work email. It was up posted for a handful of days until it caught overwhelming flak from outside and was pulled down and retracted. Most people were at least aware of it though.
Nowhere in there does it bind employees to get vaccinated. It was NEVER a requirement to stay employed-- there was never a deadline to get the jab. The HR department never even hinted at that, and when many people asked them point blank about it after this letter came out they were adament that it was not their intent to fire anyone over the vaccination. The letter comes off like "get the jab or your job is in jeopardy", but if you read it with your legalese glasses on, it says there's a tidal wave coming, and the easiest way to get elevated above the tidal wave is to get vaccinated. The tidal wave, if you might remember, was a OSHA rule that was going to apply to EVERY BUSINESS IN THE US with over 100 employees.
Now, everyone I know that read it said, "What the fuck is this?" myself included. I don't know anyone that thought it was a good idea besides Steve H, who I presume wrote it in an excelptionally bad mood after hearing about what OSHA was going to do. The majority of my coworkers are not vaccinated. Everyone has their own line in the sand and thankfully the Supreme Court cut the bullshit down before it was anymore serious of an issue. Frankly, most of us think the letter didn't need to go out, and it should have been reviewed before it did, but I believe this one came straight from the top. People make mistakes, but believe me, we all remember this one.
Think whatever you want about the management, buy whatever you want, but I'll vouch for the fact that the Hornady factory is filled with hundreds and hundreds of excellent red-blooded Americans... veterans, hunters, outdoorsmen... honestly the best group of people I've personally encountered since I was in the USMC. They're not the proper target for your internet virtue signalling, and it's especially in poor taste right now.
That's all I'm saying about it. You can have your 20 page thread without me.
Miles Neville
Project Engineer
Hornady Manufacturing
www.ksnblocal4.com
