So, what do you think? You reckon the team will be up for it?
El Jefe's words hung in the air above my laptop like the greasy smoke from a burning tramp.
I pushed myself back slightly from the screen and gave it and him a long hard stare.
Let me get this straight. You're proposing that it will be mandatory to have a Covid jab before anyone can return to the office?
I said this with the puzzled air of a Chicken who has accepted an invitation to dine with Foxy Loxy only to find that he was to be the main course.
Yes, that way we know we are all safe.
El Jefe couldn't have sounded more ridiculous if he was blowing a Kazoo underwater whilst dressed as a duck.
Well, the vaccine doesn't stop you from actually getting the COVIDS. So you could still get it and then spread it about like cheap jam on hot toast?
I emphasised my point by employing my famous impersonation of a rational human being.
El Jefe twitched and jerked as if beset by flies.
What? What do you mean the vaccine doesn't stop you catching it? It's a fucking vaccine. That's what vaccines do, they make you IMYOOOOOOON???
The Jefe-elump pushed his face close to the camera, his mouth gaping, carp-like as he scoffed at me in a way that a six-year-old would be proud of.
IMYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON.
He repeated like a birthing cow, his eyes bulging as if he were deeply felating me.
Ever the gentleman, I waited for him to finish.
And finish he did, more quickly perhaps than I would have.
As I was saying, it doesn't make you immune, it...
El-Jefe rudely cut me off with a chop of his hand.
What the hell, Boom-Dawg? Are you one of them? The anti-vaxxers? Seriously? For real?
He looked at me the same way my Uncle Tommy had looked at me when I wore my first tie-dyed shirt.
Of course I'm not a fucking anti-vaxxer you tool.
I snapped. One of my very few sensitive nerve endings stinging at the accusation.
Interlude - some half finished cover art that didn't make the cut but I liked it :0)
Lovely! Now on with the show!
El Jefe frowned deeply and raised an eyebrow portentously.
Boom-Dawg, did you just call me a tool?
He thundered slowly like a Caribbean storm.
Hell no's boss guy, I said fool, not tool.
I nimbly skated over the crack-festooned thin ice that the Human Resources department wore as a skin.
And anyway, I was trying to tell you, you are not IMYOOOON if you get the vaccine, even if you have both jabs. You are just less likely to die like a panting asthmatic dog in the Spanish sun.
I weaved my fingers in a casty spell way at the camera to lure him away from focussing on being called a tool and a fool.
But Boomy... That's how vaccines work? I mean what do I have to do, google it for you?
He shook his head disparagingly at the folly of handsome men.
Yes please.
Yes please what?
Google it.
I smiled a bright smile, the smile of a man who suddenly realises that Kiss from a Rose wasn't sung by an actual Seal.
Google what?
El Jefe puffed confusedly like some kind of tool who had just been called a fool by someone rather cruel.
You said, 'what did you have to do, Google it for me...' So yes, please. Google it.
I nodded at him to do my bidding.
He made an exasperated Uuuuuuurrrhh noise then nodded.
Fine then. I bloody well will.
He leaned forward and peered at his keyboard before pecking out individual letters of his query with a one-fingered stabbing motion.
No wonder he never got married, I thought as he ponderously tapped away.
There!
El Jefe crowed with excitement at his achievement of googling something as the results flooded onto his screen.
It says...Oh, wait a minute...
He scowled at his laptop and then muttered something about someone playing funny buggers with the internet.
He cut the call.
I leaned back and chortled.
Aye, see you sooooooooon Mr IMYOON.
Yeah it is a big argument here. We have hospitals saying to work there you must have the jabs, and nurses saying they would rather quit...Crazy days Boom.
Crazy days indeed. I am all for the jab but I do think it shouldn't be a thing that is forced on some people for their jobs. Tough times!!
Loool must've have been shocking for him to see you so out of character
HAhahahaha, love it! Yes, he would have known something was up then! :OD
I have went through this with many people. Especially when talking about Anti-Vax. - Coincidentally, I had this conversation with my GM as well. He really wants everyone to come back to the office, whereas I prefer having everyone work from home. (He will win - eventually)
Basically, if you are not Anti-Vax. Then, you will (hopefully) be asymmetrically carrying the virus as you socialize without masks (better yet, not have it at all). If you do run into folks that choose not to Vax, then, they will play Covid Roulette to decide if they "die like a panting asthmatic dog in the Spanish sun", have a rough couple of days/weeks or simply build up their anti-bodies naturally.
In this case, the Anti-Vaxer's don't pose much of a threat to the Vaxer's.
On a related note, I got my second jab today. So hopefully I'll be able to start travelling again.
The letter for my second jab came through. My appointment is in two weeks. I can't wait as I want to be able to go traveling and meet my mates for a bit of a
rammygood time in the pub.I think my boss will win too. Eventually... Still not going to free up that I have had any jabs. Will just have to dance around the question like a nimble ballerina. Glad to hear you got your second dose of Bill Gates Human Operating system override!! :0D
I've been asked ... if you had one wish, what would it be ...
(As a Linux admin) My answer has usually been that I would like to be able to access all of the functions and parameters of my body (or the world {evil laugh}) from a Linux Terminal. This jab may be the first step in achieving that wish. ;-)
So clever! lol.
I realized I know this guy, El Jefe, he goes by a different name in my world. lol
It might be the C word, thats a common name for these folk!
Bahahahahhahahahahahahhaaaaaa XD
At least he Googled it.
At least he googled it and didnt get a wonky answer. I don't think I could have taken it if he had sent me a link to some shonky site claiming it was ALL A SCAM!
He might not have searched anything particularly related before to be able to get bubbled XD
from memory Google was meant to have stopped bubbling but I don't trust them one iota
I dont trust them either. Occasionally I still like to compare my search results with duck duck go and the like and marvel at the differences!
I am amazed he could google!
Not very good at the internet then? XD
I suspect he longa for the days of In-Trays, baskets and clipboards! Lol
Although me imyooon is 0tob a tool o can't help wondering if that's you on the cover photo asking yo speak to the manager or Mrs boom. If it's the latter you guys look creepily alike lol yes I'm busting your chops. You can Google that too.
I have busted many a chop have no fears on that score!!
That is my beautiful head stuck on a random chick to make her look amazeballs!! Without me she you are nothing. I whispered to her but she ran ever so quickly away. Women!
LOL you really have a way with women!
I like to read that you are more cunning than your boss, I imagine the poor man trying to prioritize the answer ha ha ha, your boss however seems like a good man, you tell him is instrument and stupid and keep talking to you, in the part that You say that he has never been married I felt alluded ha ha ha ha, I'm as annoying man as your boss ha ha ha ha,
Greetings and good post as always
I am definitely more cunning than him but he has the low cunning of an animal and sometimes outsmarts me. Not often right enough :0)
cunning people make you think and by winning them satisfaction is even better, I like this type of person
It does make that victory all the sweeter!! You do need to have a challenge or its no fun
Dammit man! That will be the next big legal hurdle...forced vaccines?? I am not a fan of the jab and if my job said 'mandatory' I guess I'll be looking for a new gig lol. Work from home sounds pretty good to me.
Working from home is good except I think I am gonna get piles from sitting hunched over my laptop for hours on end. Its all meetings meetings meetings.
I don't mind the vax so much but being a contrarian I wont do it if they tell me I have to fucking do it! :OD
Exactly!...contrarian is a perfect word for the reluctance I feel. Get yourself one of those donut thingys before you have to have your manhole worked on lol
I think if I sat in one of them it would just make me poo involuntarily! hahahhahahhaha
The vaccines are not tested. The long term effects of the vaccines are not known. This is a worldwide human experiment. A sane man will not take any of those vaccines. But people are not (always) sane. Especially if the thing comes to their jobs. Many (probably most) of the people will take the vaccines to keep their jobs.
No wonder he never got married, I thought as he ponderously tapped away.
This had me guffawing
Hehe, yeah, I like that myself :OD
Are they making you go back to the office? Take the summer off and you can go back to work just in time for lockdown 3. That is my plan.
They had a plan, the numbers started rising, they changed it for a new plan then another new one now finally they have settled on the if your vaxxed you can come back - as ever, I am like, fuck that. Wild horses will have to be employed to get me back in!!
Haha, how do the rest of the guys feel about going back to the office?
My team are all of a similar mind. Of course there are a couple who are singing the company hymsheet and saying how they cant wait to get back in the office. Which is mental. There are also others who are saying that but they must have shit house lives. I don't want to ever go back!
Arse lickers.. I had some of that when I worked (which I no longer do until summer is over). I'm sure they don't really want to go back in. Meanwhile, we were getting emails about mental health and WFH not helping with it. What a load of crap!
That's the cunning bit when they start turning from talking about the new normal being great and how we have all done so well to suggesting that perhaps we all want to get back to the real normal as in the way things were just because one of the directors or the chief exec doesn't like his/her partner and can't wait to get back to some flirty boogy in the office.
I am quite convinced that no one wants to but some pretend.
Lucky you being off for the summer!
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Why are you downvoting my posts?
I put hours of work and effort into them, and I am earning cents, and you reduce those little amounts to even less.
Why are you downvoting my posts?
Just because I wrote the fact that the vaccines are not tested?
I have not downvoted a single post of yours.
I removed my votes from your posts. It is definitely not the same.
Get your facts right.
You are right. Sorry. Ecency is showing the same notification both for the downvotes and the unvotes.
But why did you removed them?
They were given in error as part of a minnowvotes trail I follow to support minnows. I assess the votes going out occasionally.
Maybe it was not an error. I know that I am currently less than a minnow, but I am trying my best to become one. I am currently a redfish/plankton, because I currently have less than 500 Hive power, but it is very hard to grow my account, because almost no one cares about my posts. I am earning cents with most of my posts. But I am still trying to be consistent, and I would have been happy and grateful for the support.
Someone downvoted my post and commented that the post was dumb. Thats cool, we are all entitled to our opinions.
But then I saw you upvoted their comment and replied saying you found it admirable and commending him for his honesty and courage.
Why would I want to support that?
Not (just/only) that. That is only my opinion and view generally on honesty. Expressing your honest, genuine opinion certainly takes some kind of bravery on a platform, which generally dominated by fake positivity. Honesty is admirable, valuable and should be encouraged in my opinion.
Ah, the interlude of images-that-might-have-been...
And you've had the jab already, right?
I've had one. It is quite amazing, I can already feel my laser eyes starting to develop and only the other day I picked up a car and threw it down the road with my super strength! :OD
Do you still need to pay someone else for cell service, or has your 5G connectivity kicked in?
The 5G is in and being reeived loud and clear!! I just sometimes wish I could change the channel!