Reuters is reporting on an interesting dynamic within the vaccine mandate as it pertains to Amtrak. Reading between the lines tells us something very specific about this vaccine mandate that we have discussed here, and it’s starting to show.
The article itself points to how Amtrak is suspending their vaccine mandate as a result of the federal courts blocking enforcement of any mandate pending litigation. From their perspective as a federal contractor, Amtrak is now in a position to cease the vaccine requirement until the legal issues are resolved. However, there’s an element touched upon that needs to be considered.
First the article (the emphasis is mine):
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) – U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak said on Tuesday it will temporarily suspend a vaccine mandate for employees and now no longer expects to be forced to cut some service in January. In a memo seen by Reuters, Amtrak Chief Executive Bill Flynn said the railroad would allow employees who were not vaccinated to get tested.
Currently, fewer than 500 active Amtrak employees are not in compliance. Last week, the railroad told Congress it anticipated “proactively needing to temporarily reduce some train frequencies across our network” because of the mandate.
Flynn said 95.7% of Amtrak’s 17,000 employees are either fully vaccinated or have an accommodation — and including employees with one dose 97.3% of employees are in compliance.
Amtrak cited a U.S. district court decision that halted the enforcement of President Joe Biden’s executive order mandating vaccines for federal contractors by January. “This caused the company to reevaluate our policy and to address the uncertainty about the federal requirements that apply to Amtrak,” the memo said. (read more)
Let’s cut through some politically correct corporate speech and media spin, and instead focus on a few key aspects:
First, the cause of the operational change, a frequency change in Amtrak service, was specifically admitted to be due to the vaccine mandate. This is EXACTLY the opposite of the White House claim earlier today (see below). The vaccine mandate was the cause of the operational change. Amtrak admits this – the White House refutes this.
Second, a reduction of 500 non-vaccinated people amid a company payroll exceeding 17,000, to the extent that the reduction actually changes the operational service of the company, tells us the unvaccinated people were specifically critical to the service the company provides.
This second point gets to the heart of a thesis we have proposed before. It’s not an issue of how many people, or what percentage, quit over a vaccine requirement. It’s a more specific issue of WHO those people are and what they do.
In any organization, there are people critical to the operation and people not so critical.
In a cumbersome top-heavy organization, that relies upon government largess and subsidy to operate, employment is bloated beyond what is efficient. I have long stated that the key group of most productive people, the very critical group for efficient operation, are a small subset of the total company employment.
I would bet, and it is essentially admitted by the statement from Amtrak, that a much higher percentage of the critical workers are refusing the vaccine than exist in the total employment ranks. The most productive and critical employees within any organization are independent minded, dependable and capable of a much larger influence than the average person. It is inside that core group of highly critical employees where effects from a vaccine mandate refusal makes the biggest impact.
As a result, the issue for any mandate is not the percentage of compliance overall, but rather how those very critical employees respond to the mandate.
There can be a specific skillset or duty needed in an organization, even a massive organization, that is only being done by a handful of specifically skilled people. If those people stop working, the effect on the entire organization is far beyond scale. In some instances, even in large organizations, that handful of people can shut down the entire operation if they do not perform their job(s).
500 out of 17,000 is only 3%,… yet that 3% were obviously critical enough to the operation of Amtrak in such a scale as the organization was planning to modify it’s entire operation due to their absence. This fact points as evidence to the theory that the most critical blue-collar people inside every organization carry a tremendous amount of clout when it comes to this vaccine mandate.
It’s not a matter of how many refuse the mandate, it’s an issue of who they are.
The blue-collar effort to bolster the resistance by these brothers and sisters in freedom, does not have to be too massive to have an impact. Remember, almost all of the leftists and elite-minded communists, who now operate as Democrats, have no capacity for self-sufficiency. If the working class stops picking up their trash, stops mowing their lawns, shopping for them, doing their cleaning and essentially facilitating their lives, this entire group of people cannot function.
If the always dependable shift-worker who never misses a day of work; the person who is always dutiful, diligent, trustworthy and can solve problems independently; the person who goes the extra mile and is proactive in planning their responsibilities, does not show up with the keys to be the switch operator, well, then the switch doesn’t get operated. And, that person is very hard to replace.
Remember, the part where Amtrak said the change in service schedules was due to the vaccine? Well, here’s the White House denying the change in Amtrak services was caused by the vaccine. WATCH:
From a commonsense and logistical perspective, regardless of the federal outlook, there’s no way they can pull it off. We are the quiet, and according to those who look down their noses – the “invisible” unwashed masses. However, when it comes to keeping the gears turning, we are the majority.
We keep their shit working and just want to be left alone. The system will not function if tens-of-millions of American workers stand united against the vaccine mandate. It really is that simple.
Nice job reading between the lines on this story, Sundance
You’ve picked out an underlying story entirely not covered on the surface, superficial reporting
Our vaunted intrepid reporters, news analysts, and expert commentators certainly haven’t demonstrated any ability or interest in fair, balanced, and fact-based reporting.
That is why I pay no attention to any of the empty-headed moving mouths foisted on us by the MSM.
I watch zero TV news because the propaganda hurts my head. So I can only hear their lies secondhand.
When I do hear about the lies they spew, I automatically consider the exact opposite of what I am hearing. The opposite of what the ENEmedia spews, at any given time, often reflects the reality of the situation.
A good point, too, is that added to the resistance, there is a deficit of workers due to seemingly being ill or otherwise. Every day in the homecare program I work for, 2-3 people call out. It’s crazy.
To add a point to the story. A few years back, per-covid, the boss of the company I was working for told me that 20% of the employees pulled the rest of the slower or lazier 80% of the workers along. When asked, he said I was definitely in the 20% and he appreciated the good work. I thanked him for the compliment and said I needed a raise. I got the raise, but when I started declining to have those 80%’ers on my team, our relationship began to deteriorate. Hello, retirement.
Preto(?) principle of large organizations
Peter principle
Pareto is the 80/20 rule. Peter Principle is rising to your level of incompetence.
The 80/20 rule is pretty universal and applies to many different contexts. The Peter Principle is that one rises to their level of incompetence.
That’s why it’s called AmTrack instead of AmNotTrack.
(Groan)
500 out of 17k sounds like the Engineers to me
Sounds to me like the wing of Amtrack who are capable of doing their own research and not believing everything that comes out of Fauci’s mouth!
Joey Baby you can sick that needle where the sun doesn’t shine
For your plow…Merry Christmas.
‘Stick Your Vaccine Mandates Up Your A$$’ Anthem Spreads
(…she’ll be coming round the mountain…)
https://rumble.com/vqe57a-stick-your-vaccine-mandate-up-your-a-anthem-spreads.html
So regular competent dependable people are vital in order to get things done, done correctly, and on time?
Who knew!
Certainly not POTATUS. Or anyone in his circus administration.
National strike of essential workers will fk their sh1t up…when do you want to go?
Peteybs3,
Yesterday?
Yes but these workers are not organized.
Hasn’t stopped us being effective so far.
Been saying that since last year. Hard to organize. Happened with truckers in 70s, and more recently truckers in Australia shutting country down for a while.
We are the majority. We can keep the gears turning OR we can throw sand in the gears.
Seems to me that the Greenies threw the sand in the port problem in Calinotforme. The problem could have been quickly resolved if Newsom had suspended his green truck ban but nnnnoooooooooooo, he had to toe the Democrat Socialist goal. It was far more important to uphold their green principle and force the masses to endure not only the pain but the inflation which resulted from those ships mooring off shore. In the eyes of the Socialist globalists, it is a win-win (consumers have to pay more for goods brought in to the ports IF they can get them and they get to uphold their ideals of global control). The irony is that those ships moored off the coast are polluting the Calinotforme air and the greenies don’t care because they are keeping the “unwashed” trucks off the highways there. Guard your wallets, the greenies are out to empty them!
As for sand, how about a few thousand bags of QuikCrete?
The illiterate, dimbulb “greens” don’t understand or refuse to understand the concept of net energy balance. As soon as someone starts speaking to me about sustainable operations (e.g. replacing petroleum hydrocarbons with biorenewable materials) their eyes glaze over when I demonstrate to them that there is no free lunch – the only decision is do it or don’t do it if your goal is reducing your “environmental impact”
Fight Club, more people should watch that movie.
It would remind them who is really nonessential and for the .gov it certainly isn’t them. Amtrak is a government corporation.
The key is that the lives in the government towns along the eastern seaboard will be disadvantaged if Amtrak is curtailed.
I’m not so sure that the party gives a hoot whether the economic machine sputters and breaks down in fly over country; perhaps that is a goal. A cold and hungry serf is a compliant serf.
Keep in mind Sundance’s frequent illustration of the muddy, ramshackle village run only by windmills beneath the high tech, shiny city on the bluff.
Joe doesn’t care. He doesn’t have to take Amtrack to get from DC to Delaware any more. He has AF1 so why should he care about Amtrack riders?
Certainly it could be related to inconvenience. I’d be willing to bet it has equal or more to do with the nightmare the Amtrak “managers” lives will become. Any systemic breakdown will expose these losers for who and what they are.
LeeCarolynn55,
I suspect that any future “destination” for her (in the corporate world) will neither require a resume’, nor a conscience.
She likewise wouldn’t need either of those things in GITMO!!!!!!
Who’s awake now, and why?
Part of the crowdsourcing of information is great articles like this on Substack that ITEMIZES the long history of
Pfizer and it’s truly diabolical behaviors over the years.
It’s a timeline but then Moves into what actions are being taken against Pfizer Now.
Some good things are happening!
Pfizer’s History of Fraud, Corruption, and Using Nigerian Children as ‘Human Guinea Pigs’….How did Pfizer manage to rebrand itself as the savior of humanity?
A very useful Itemized List
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/pfizers-history-of-fraud-corruption
PS. The movie The Constant Garner with Ralph Finnes, is all about the Nigerian scandal.
Or maybe Amtrak is just fudging the number of vaccinated.
Just found out this weekend, that a prominent college fudges the number of Covid cases on campus by persuading any student with Covid symptoms to go home. This way the student gets tested at home, not on campus, and the college doesn’t have to count that as a Covid positive case.
All kinds of ways to fudge numbers.
Is medical data fraud still a crime in the U.S.?
How about election fraud?
Need an audit for both.
Build Rackets Better.
Fake vaccine, fake elections, fake politicians, fake president, fake news…stop me if you heard this one before.
“500 out of 17,000 is only 3%…”
I do NOT believe ANY of the numbers coming out of this administration…they would never give a straight answer as to exactly how many TSA workers received “accommodations” either – they just said that 95% of the employees were v@xxed OR had received an exemption, which we all know is double-speak for “Oh, Sh&t, we’re gonna lose a boatload of people if we don’t sign off on these waivers!” If we had a functioning media, we would probably find out that less than half of the Federal workers (including those at HHS, CDC, FDA, and The White Hut) have taken the shots!!
I am betting that the number of unjabbed Amtrak workers is WAY higher than 3%…just like TSA and USPS! Which is why, IMHO, they are backing down on their mandates across the board, even as they claim 97% compliance in a desperate attempt to make it LOOK like almost “everybody else” has given in!!
I do NOT believe ANY of the numbers coming out of this administration
Good point. Me neither.
Build Lies Bigger.
Same happened with nurses in western NY. They didn`t count anyone who quit, retired, was on unpaid leave, or seeking an exemption.
Just like the statistics don’t count vaccinated injuries and deaths until two weeks after the victims take their *second* shot.
Problem is, those short-term vax injuries statistically occur right after the *first* shot, so these victims simply drop off the radar and are never counted as vaccinated at all. Worse, they are often counted as “unvaccinated” injuries.
My cousin suffered a full body rash after his first Pfizer shot. He never went back for the second. So he statistically is an UNvaxxed person.
About those “exemptions”. If not taking the Jab is gonna kill everyone, then why ANY exemptions? Kinda calls into question their entire plan….
The exemption forms are legally required to demonstrate that companies have offered an option to decline the medical experiments.
All of the injections in the US are experimental EUA, so they all must legally be optional. Medical experiments cannot legally be mandated.
The trustworthiness of any entity or individual that is part of, affiliated with, or dependent upon the U.S. Government in any way must be treated as suspect.
”…either fully vaccinated or have an accommodation .”
I wonder how subjective “an accommodation” is between different organizations.
Out of over 16,000 requests for a religious accommodation in the military, zero were granted.
Which is why a federal judge ordered the DOD to accept religious requests for accommodation. Doubtful this administration starts listening to judges now.
Same issue with the U.S. Air Force: saw a headline stating that 27 personnel were recently dismissed from service for refusing the monkey juice. What if all 27 happened to be tanker plane pilots (KC-135, KC-46A, KC-10)? The AF was already extremely short of pilots pre-COVID, so they can hardly stand to lose any more. Tankers, F-22’s, F-35’s and many other specialty aircraft require highly-skilled pilots trained specifically on those aircraft, you can’t just throw a couple of warm butts into the cockpit of a tanker expecting them to fly critical missions from day one.
WARNING: Borg Rant Follows (haven’t done one in a while)
Ayn Rand had it right in her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged: What if all the essential workers, the producers, the makers, the creators suddenly went on strike? How long would society last without their minds and labor? Pardon the following laborious thesis , but we really need to work out the consequences, if take this concept to its extreme.
Think about America’s infrastructure: railroads, ports, airports, mass transportation, trucking, the electrical grid, petrochemical facilities (including pipelines, storage, pumping stations), IT specialists, waste management (trash pickup, sewage processing), power generation and distribution, mining, farming, ranching, food processing. Now imagine if, say, just two percent of those people suddenly called in sick next Monday, what would happen? At first, nothing more than some slowdowns and general inconvenience, but by Friday you’ll see total chaos; within two weeks, a complete breakdown of the America’s economic engine. The people holding the world on their shoulders just shrugged and let it drop.
I’d like to think we’d instantly be thrown back into the world of the late-1800’s, but that would be too optimistic. How about the 1600’s? Still too optimistic! How far back would we have to go? 1500’s, Middle Ages Europe? ancient Rome, ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, Sumeria? NOPE! Every one of those civilizations had flourishing trade systems and generally stable economies throughout most of their existence.
What about pre-European Native American cultures? Tribal cultures of the past 1,000 years were functionally complex, had well-defined government, and interconnected with vast trading routes covering the entire continent. Going back further, we have ancient Adena, Mississippian and Hopewell cultures, all of whom had strong centralized state control, communal crop management, grain storage, and trading.
In fact, you’d have to go back to nomadic Paleolithic cultures (like the Clovis people) before you could find a stable world not dependent on communal infrastructure and other social support systems, and certainly no system of economics that we know of. The largest social unit was the extended family and maybe small groups of families, but not much in the way of larger organized tribal structures as we know them today.
You survived by your own wits and skills along with those of your immediate family. Any group smaller than, say, a dozen adult males wouldn’t last long in the harsh environment of North America 5,000 – 10,000 yrs ago. Groups larger that 100 individuals probably weren’t possible due to the large amount of meat needed to support them; nomadic people were always on the move seeking barely enough food to stay alive.
So: imagine the total breakdown of America’s industrial / technical / economic infrastructure, where would that put us in terms of day-to-day survival? You’d have to turn the dial back to nomadic Paleolithic hunters but maybe not quite to that extreme. At the very best, we might establish some sort of agrarian-based society along the lines of an early Native American culture like the Adena or Hopewell. Groups of rural families could form interconnecting tribal-like colonies and adopt a trade-based economy. Ironically, the Amish probably would barely have noticed the collapse of the God-less wicked English.
Remember: virtually all the tools and methods used in modern farming would be useless without the fuel and electricity to power them, you’d have to go back to literal horse power (another reason to cultivate Amish friends). Even at that, there are going to be all kinds of problems, especially with energy. How are you going to heat your homes? No nat gas, no electricity, no oil, no kerosene; you’re looking at either coal or wood.
Coal has to be mined, maybe plenty can be had form open-pit mines, but without a transportation system, it would only be of use to local populations. As for wood: any local standing timber would be cut down within five years, if not sooner. Great Plains states like Nebraska & Kansas have very few trees to begin with, not good if you live there, maybe burn sod.
There’s only one way out of this dilemma, fewer people. Sorry, but too many people in North America aren’t going to have enough heating wood to survive much past 3-5 yrs (depending on location). Areas rich in easy-access surface coal will make it, as will most in the warmer deep South, Southern Cal., Gulf Coast areas. A lot of people are going to freeze to death or succumb to pneumonia. As the population rapidly thins, remaining survivors will have access to more wood: populations will self-balance to resources available.
See what we get into when society completely collapses? We get to start all over — again. Ayn Rand, of course, was a bit more optimistic: she proposed this kind of escapist hidden “fantasy island” where all the skilled people congregated (hide?) to insulate themselves from the impending doom. The theory is that, someday, after everyone else has learned their lessons, this elite group of makers and doers will rebuild society. Total hogwash, of course, but it made for a nice upbeat ending to the novel.
Simply running away from our problems is not only morally reprehensible, but seems contrary Rand’s objectivist teachings; why should I give up and abandon all that I have built to go hide in a canyon somewhere then come out to help a degenerate society rebuild itself, only to have them do the same stupid things all over again? Why should I surrender to the collectivist leeches sucking the life out of me?
Rand was too much of an idealist, the Collective NEVER learns! Why should those of proven accomplishments and strong work ethic feel morally obligated to constantly bail out the stupid and lazy? Rand’s modern day economic heroes, the ones who hold the world on their shoulders are not the objectivist elitists of the kind portrayed in her novels, rather, they are the ordinary everyday working man and woman!
Rather than escape to some hidden colony, the real heroes have chosen to build a parallel economy, and quite possibly a parallel government to go along with it. I believe the Deep State can’t be destroyed, but it can be isolated, sandbagged and cut off from the sources that sustain it. I won’t go into the details of how the parallel economy funcions, that’s a whole complicated topic in itself. But if you want to see an example of it, check the amazing story behind Andrew Torba’s Gab social media site.
Look at what’s happened to mainstream media giants like NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and CNN; they’ve been totally eclipsed by Real America’s Voice, The Liberty Daily, Citizen Free Press, One America News Network, Gateway Pundit, and yes — even Alex Jones. No thinking person deliberately tunes in CNN these days, they’ve become a total joke. All these old-order media giants are falling, or have already fallen, into the stinking swamp of social irrelevance.
Former web giants like Yahoo are essentially dead. Twitter is certainly dying a slow death. YouTube and Facebook may take a little longer, but I see their days as being numbered. The social media landscape is changing my friends, people are waking up and getting informed, a tornado of radical political change is on the way. Ayn Rand correctly identified underlying philosophical problems of a collectivist society back in the 1960’s, but her solutions were somewhat naive and myopic.
Nice rant.
I will take your word for it
lol…
Me thinks there will be thousands of dead or deposed politicians before things ever get that bad. They will be removed one way or another.
If not by our own hands, then by the Chinese and whomever else has been long planning an invasion and prepositioning assets and purchasing traitors.
100% agree
What I find amusing is that the communists think THEY are going to be the 10% that survives!
“landscape is changing”
Remember Geocities? Friendster?
-Parody: Social Networking Wars
Like Kamala not knowing how to charge her Tesla? 😂😂😂😂
An in-law had a highly successful business yet felt like things could be better. He began taking people who he knew were solid workers to lunch to get their feedback about the company. When he asked one staffer what she thought of the day to day operations she told him he could fire 30% of staff (and which to fire) (and he’d get the same productivity while reducing overhead. He was stunned at her directness but appreciated the feedback. He did as she recommended and was quite happy with the revived company culture. She got a big raise too.
That took some guts!
Seems odd Kammy doesn’t understand rechargeable batteries. I’m sure she has lots of –ummm “personal” — devices that need charging every night. [wink, wink, nudge, nudge]
“And it doesn’t have any gas fumes” she said. Oh brother!
I don’t believe they only had 500 people refusing the vaccine. They’re lying. If 40% of the country is refusing the vaccine, no reason to think that sizeable number isn’t also present in the workforce refusing the vaccine. My company just suspended their vaccine mandate as well. Just like the airlines tried to hide the disruption to their flights (weather) because more people were refusing the mandate than they were reporting. Companies aren’t reporting how large the internal backlash really is.
Where I work, I do not have any sense of how many employees are resisting the mandate here. The company is claiming 88% compliance which would mean something like 5,000-ish people in the company not jabbed. I work remotely so I don’t have a good idea of what’s going to happen. They’re sticking to their deadline so far… (01/04)
Active duty Navy hubby was told 30% of sailors separated rather than be jabbed.
The Demon-rats are unaware how stupid they are and how knowledgeable and wise we are. They view all citizens and incoming illegals as tiny lemmings to control.
They hate us precisely because they cannot control us. They know we have them dissected down to their evil cellular level.
We are truly the deplorables and we run the gig here and everywhere we may go.
Psaki always has that “liar’s stare.”
It would only say that if she were honest, but ….
We is “Ezzential”!
I think Little Red Lying Hood is starting to show signs of having a bit too much to drink. What once was maybe a glass at bedtime has grown into quite a bit more
Ultimately the vaccine mandate is going to be seen a huge failure for the present Communist/Fascist/Totalitarian administration. People are going to be more receptive to the fact the present administration is a result of a fraudulent election.
We the People are winning and the panic becomes more desperate as each day goes by.
Dr. Peter McCullough spells out the sinister plan to Joe Rogan:
“And, that person is very hard to replace.”
I work for an organization with offices that covers east to Kentucky, north to Wisconsin, Michigan and North Dakota, west to Colorado and south to Kansas. It took 21 years before I became a supervisor. My last day is tomorrow since I am retiring with over 34 years of experience. The mandate is the biggest factor.
Typically we have at most 3 in my position who might retire each year. Some years are less.
There are 7 others that are similar supervisors who are all leaving by 12/31/21. I am number 8 so far.
If we average 30 years experience each, that is 240 years combined going out the door over this foolishness.
Appeals court refuses to block United Airlines vax mandate.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2021/12/14/appeals-court-refuses-to-block-united-airlines-vaccine-mandate/
Just think if all the “Critical Thinkers” refuse the Clot Shot…then what you have left is the Congress of the U.S. Sad but true!
Mechanical engineering/repairs comes to mind.. if the mechanics at fedex, ups, or usps walk off the job guess what doesn’t happen.. many of these journeyman have $100,000 in tools and are always a very critical yet very low percentage of the company workforce
Nothing reinforces the 80/20 rule like these examples. Clearly 20% do the work, so you take that down to 17% and Houston we have a problem.
This whole scene is so destructive. The prudent will refuse the clot-shot, while the constituents of the system get felled by it’s side-effects. The elites did a poor job of targeting their enemies. The resilience of the 20% may wind up saving the hides of the 80%, by thrwarting the system at break points like this.
Proof once again that 80% of the outcome is the result of 20% of the imput. And there are way more than 20% of Americans “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore! “
Yes, it is unraveling for the “Bad Guys” and it can only get worse for them. Election fraud is slowly coming into focus for the American people.
They can get by with a lot because of being incompetent. However, Election Fraud has treasonous implications and it is treason which puts people in jail.
So are funding a bioweapon, and pushing a dangerous shot.
If we could avoid HUGE full-face pics of Raggedy Ann, I’d appreciate it.
This thread, about the power of the blue collar workers who make things run, reminds me of an earlier piece here only a few weeks ago . Oh look. Sundance included two videos.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/11/05/video-attributed-to-procter-and-gamble-blue-collar-workers-warns-of-economic-consequences-from-vaccination-mandate/
I am sure the vaccination rate numbers are accurate and precise and totally not corrupt.
It’s not like Amtrak has issues with numbers like profits or cost overruns or running late on timetables or anything like that.
I absolutely believe that the union Amtrak workers who never fudge over time or hours worked would EVER make false or misleading statements around vaccinations.
That could never happen.
May I have some of what you are having? Please?
As I read Sundances article, I thought of the “tech department” in any business, particularly the kind of businesses my wife worked in; Insurance and real estate related businesses.
Without the tech dept, the business would shut down, and they can’t just bring anyone in to replace them; they KNOW the systems.
The fascade is crumbling, for Brandons admin, on every level.
in china not too many years ago they often used the word mei you (pr. mayo) which means no, or not, or don’t have. you might go to the store and ask for something you want to buy, and the clerk says mei you. you interpret this to mean that they don’t have that item, so instead you select an item on the shelf and take it to the clerk who again says mei you. you think the clerk is saying you can’t buy it, so you wave your money to show you have money to buy. the clerk remains disinterested and says mei you. but what the clerk is telling you is that it can’t be sold to you because the man with the key to the cash register is not here today.
Many vaccinated people object to the authoritarian idea that they can be forced to show proof of their status.
At the federal contractor where a friend works, there was a very substantial contingent known to be vaccinated but who refuse to show proof even if it means losing their job. And it’s not a coincidence that those people who have principles and independent thought also happen to be the most important to the operation.
The collective relief from management after the latest court ruling was palpable.
If the always dependable shift-worker who never misses a day of work; the person who is always dutiful, diligent, trustworthy and can solve problems independently; the person who goes the extra mile and is proactive in planning their responsibilities, does not show up with the keys to be the switch operator, well, then the switch doesn’t get operated. And, that person is very hard to replace.
Those are the people who are worth their weight in platinum in any successful organization. People that I have come to greatly respect, as a degreed engineer, instead of looking down my nose at them.
The problem is that – particularly when it comes to independent thinking and proactively managing their lives such that they have the reserves to take the economic hit when Irish Democracy is called for – they are a VERY rare breed.
Our social-technocracy discourages such diligence and initiative … and self-sufficiency, in both the white-collared as noted by the author, and the blue-collared. It instead encourages a submissive trust in those deemed the “elite” and assumed to Know Better ™… the politician, the activist, the union leader, the academic, and even the delegated cash cows and beasts of burden known as “employers” … to deal with our problems FOR us as we simply plod through life, punching in/doing what we’re told/punching out each day.
Trusting them as though they are omniscient and infallible to the degree that they can see into our lives, tell us what to do, and get it right FOR us every time – or at least enough that we have no need to think beyond their myopic rules, because we are led to believe we CAN’T do better for ourselves than they and their “common good” does FOR us.
That is trust at a Flounderian level … as in “You f___d up, you trusted us”, which is the only thing our condescending elites can say with honesty these days.
Decades of immersion in this way of thinking have led us to lie to ourselves, about what it takes to get through life … led us to think that our employers, our union leaders, our academics, our activists, and particularly our government are there to assure a prosperous and peaceful life, with little or no effort on our part.
Not even the effort to go beyond doing what we’re told, to find and implement better ways to do our jobs that will make them more secure, and also grow our value in the labor marketplace … that is seen as the responsibility of our cash cows, er, employers to tell us what to do.
Not even the effort to delay gratification and make the effort to manage our lives so we maintain ourselves in a position to fire our management and hire on with better … or when called for, engage in that Irish Democracy. Why do that, when you can trust the union leader and politician to deliver you prosperity on a silver platter, as they lead you to believe that you have the RIGHT to work the same job the same way in the same place for a lifetime … if you just comply with their “rules”.
We sell ourselves short in that Flounderian trust … that our own, proximity-and-consequence-informed insight and common sense are inherently inferior to the book-learning and culturally (cultish?) validated “elite wisdom”. And by doing so, not only make ourselves vulnerable to the frailties of these all-t00-human notables, but effectively unplug much of the informed, closest-to-the-problems distributed intellect in this nation from the processes of problem-solving.
The blind elite, leading the blinded – US.
Instead, we have centralized decision-making by an elite few, who come to believe that faceless, industrial approaches and economies of scale can be applied to solve problems with up to 330 million living, breathing INDIVIDUAL variables in this nation alone. That’s akin to trying to text on your smartphone with a sledgehammer.
If we want to reverse this lemming parade we are on now and make it stick … getting us ordinary people to QUESTION the world around us, then build trust in our own insights and NOT delegate our decisions to others – even if that looks like more risk and effort for us – is essential to diminish the power of this Pedestaled Elite and engage that distributed intellect.
That is how more of us become that rare breed that make things work … and attain the ability, by not going with the flow, to stop an organization, an enterprise, a society in its tracks, when we see it is about to go off the rails and get stuck in stupid for generations.
Which is an ability that is sorely needed right now.
Two other issues present themselves when firing personnel.
I have recent experience with the latter as I got a PT job in September and the onboarding, including the almost endless video training (DEI!) was beyond tedious.
Case in point; Florida based NextEra Energy is the largest utility in the world. Their CEO, a shallow leftist named Jim Robo who is highly attracted to federal subsidies, has deemed the jab a condition of employment for all of NextEra’s 15,000 employees.
NextEra and their subsidiary Florida Power and Light have in their portfolio four nuclear stations that produce about 7000 Megawatts (million watts) of power. The reactors at each of these stations require licensed operators to run them. Those operators are NOT interchangeable between stations, as the NRC requires Unit-specific licenses for operation of each facility. It takes about 1-year to 18-months for an individual to be trained and licensed at a nuclear facility.
As SD says, It’s not a matter of how many refuse the mandate, it’s an issue of who they are. If, say 20% of the licensed operators at these facilties refuse the mandate, these reactors must be shut down. That amouns to 17% of the power in Wisconsin, 10% of the power in Florida, and 50% of the power in New Hampshire.
Like the man said, …In any organization, there are people critical to the operation and people not so critical.
And oh, BTW, most of those licensed operators are IBEW union members. …Let’s go Brandon.
Atlas Shrugged really was a manual….
cat-c + l + asia-ia shoe-oe + r + egg e = u + cd c = e
Amtrak being practical?
Almost as if it was a real company not dependent upon tax monies to exist and perform its function.
And it’s connection to Biden and family make this announcement even sweeter.
Somehow throughout all of this, what 21USC and 10USC actually say(!) about “medical emergencies” and “emergency use authorization” is being completely ignored – even by the nation’s highest Court.
It doesn’t take much, then, to see that all of this is simply: “mandates.” No matter what may be the premise of the moment, the fundamental premise is that Government knows better than you do, and so Government can order you what to do, even against your own will and judgment, and even with regard to your most precious and personal possession: your body.
In the pursuit of “filthy lucre” and nothing more, people are dying and suffering irreversible injuries, and “money” isn’t bothering to slow down nor change its tune. So, now you can see how much your life is worth to them: Zero.
This is authoritarianism at its most purely evil, and it must be resisted at all costs. Notice also that it is the exact opposite of what the “EUA” statute, and other medical statutes in general, actually provide.
Learned this lesson 40 years ago. Managing a manufacturing facility with 460 unionized employees that went on strike. Continued running at full capacity 24/7 until the fulltime employees returned. Sad situation. Employees lost time and eventually jobs due to being an inefficient operation.
“Temporarily” suspended. Not even a law, but a mandate by a dictator puppet of the CCP. Until they permanently suspend the illegal and unconstitutional mandates to wear masks and inject poisonous substances into their employees I’d say they’re still doing the bidding of treasonous elements in this country. They’re still going to pursue policies of coercion such as forced “testing” which is worthless on a medical standpoint. The coercive tactics remain in play.
For the employees, they have little recourse to pursue in this matter other then to not comply. There are no civil rights lawyers taking up these illegal policies to force employees to take experimental injections that have already killed tens of thousands of people because even the judges are bought and paid to rule against the rule of law or not even accept cases concerning such matters such as the SCOTUS has done.
Her unofficial biography will include a reference to her adding to a list of notable traitors such as Vidkun Quisling, Benedict Arnold, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and a soon to be added list of those within Columbia’s Federal District who actively participated in the destruction of the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America.
Well here is another example. I am in healthcare but not associated with the big hospital in town. Well… forced employee vaccines caused their main, and only, cardiothoracic surgeon to call it quits. They built their wing around him. Huuuuuuge loss and people are pissed.
Who is John Galt?