Fed up with unvaccinated colleague isolating

[Peevedcolleague]

Name changed 'cos I'll probably get slated but aibu to be pissed off about a colleague self isolating yet again while the rest of us have to carry on and pick up the pieces?

A new colleague chose not to be jabbed and is now facing numerous isolation periods at home on full pay where the rest of us have to carry on and cover her workload. Nature of the job means she's likely to be a close contact fairly regularly.

Even if she changed her mind and gets jabbed tomorrow, it'll be 10 weeks minimum before she's exempt from isolation so this could happen several more times yet.

Aibu to feel resentful and wish she bloody well got jabbed like the rest of us?

Join the club, we had this with a colleague who refused the vaccine due to pregnancy.

YANBU. Time to talk to
Mgt to
Improve your work life.

YANBU

I’d be especially annoyed about her being on full pay doing nothing at home because she chose not to get the vaccine.

YANBU. My work won’t pay you if you have to isolate having chosen not to be double jabbed (different if you can’t have it but if you won’t it’s unpaid leave)

Yabu
She has made a decision about her own body, presumably an informed decision. Vaccines don’t come without risks and she feels the vaccine risk possess greater threat than covid in her case.
Yanbu to be annoyed but she didn’t make up the isolation rules

YABU. I'd be more worried about vaccinated people NOT isolating and spreading the virus at work.

@OrangeVelour

YABU. I'd be more worried about vaccinated people NOT isolating and spreading the virus at work.

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@OrangeVelour

YABU. I'd be more worried about vaccinated people NOT isolating and spreading the virus at work.

We don't have the luxury of this unfortunately, think education / childcare setting that can't function without staff.

YANBU - selfish of colleague in all sorts of ways.

Should be unpaid leave. I would be rightly annoyed too

YANBU. I'd be furious in your situation. Luckily, all my colleagues in my dept are vaccinated ( but we are scientists)

I think people in jobs with vulnerable adults and children should also have to have their vax- yes there's risk with vaccines. It it's far less Than getting the disease. It's all very well if you can do your job at home, but not when when others are burdened again and again
YADNBU

It is due to the rules that your colleague has to self isolate, so get mad at the system, not them.
I would be more worried that a vaccinated colleague still be allowed into work even if they have a confirmed Covid case at home.

I think you should be angry at the rules rather than the colleague.

YABU. Her body, her choice. Its the isolation rules that are the issue here - at least she's following them.

YABU. This could easily be mitigated by having everyone who works in your workplace take a daily test - which they should anyway if there is considerable contact with random members of the public.

YANBU.

Where I work, people who aren't vaccinated aren't allowed in offices etc and have to continue to WFH, so they can isolate if need be and still get on with their work.

Pregnant women are advised to have covid vaccinations

It’s her body and her choice

Nothing to do with you

You wouldn’t moan if a colleague got pregnant and needed multiple days off due to sickness or complications then had maternity leave would you ?

Or if another colleague sustained a sporting injury from a hobby and needed to be off for physio or surgery etc

YANBU. You and your other colleagues are having to bear the brunt of her choice. That means more work for you and less for her

@Grapewrath

Yabu She has made a decision about her own body, presumably an informed decision. Vaccines don’t come without risks and she feels the vaccine risk possess greater threat than covid in her case. Yanbu to be annoyed but she didn’t make up the isolation rules

Fine but that means she can't therefore perform her work duties So her CHOICE not to get vaccinated leads to her CHOICE to probably be put on performance management due to missing work...

YABU. Choosing to not take the vaccine is her choice.

However, you shouldn't be picking up her work. Just keep doing your own and it shouldn't affect you. And point out to management that they need to put cover in if she is absent. You can't do her job as well as your own.

@XenoBitch

It is due to the rules that your colleague has to self isolate, so get mad at the system, not them. I would be more worried that a vaccinated colleague still be allowed into work even if they have a confirmed Covid case at home.

No it's due to a global pandemic for which there is an effective preventative that she refuses to have