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?

@XenoBitch

You genuinely think it’s OK that this person sits at home on full pay while everyone else does her work for her?

You could say the same about any reason that someone is off work. This person did not make the rules, or choose to stay at home.

Could you? Really? I'm feeling quite stupid today, pregnancy brain, care to explain?

@LoveGrooveDanceParty

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

How on earth are these comparable…?

They’re reasons for being off - actual illness and injury?!

As opposed to just skiving at home on her arse while everyone else does her work.

They are not "skiving at home on her arse"... she is not allowed to go into work.

@XenoBitch

You genuinely think it’s OK that this person sits at home on full pay while everyone else does her work for her?

You could say the same about any reason that someone is off work. This person did not make the rules, or choose to stay at home.

Of course they did.

They chose not to be vaccinated.

Absolutely nothing wrong with her, and now, no work, sitting at home, full pay.

@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

Then maybe she needs to stay at home permanently rather then using her 'informed decisions' to skive off work.

OP, how come the isolating is happening so often? Is the education/childcare setting a nursery and you have very many positive cases with very close contact? Most schools have measures still in place to reduce the very close contact - there should be minimal amounts of close contact because of that and therefore not much need to isolate often.

I do think this needs to be looked at.

she is not allowed to go into work

Because she is an idiot making idiotic choices.

My workplace has said that all unvaccinated colleagues including pregnant ones must have medical proof for vaccine exemptions. If they don’t isolation leave is unpaid but pregnant colleagues do get offered early mat leave if it’s easier.

YANBU. My work don’t pay people who have chosen not to get vaccinated and then have to self isolate

@JesusIsAnyNameFree

she is not allowed to go into work

Because she is an idiot making idiotic choices.

Where did OP say what the reason for her colleague not having the vaccine was?

YANBU. That would piss me off too.

They are not "skiving at home on her arse"... she is not allowed to go into work.

Oh my goodness.

She’s not allowed to go into work - so - she’s skiving at home, perfectly well, on full pay.

@Spanielsarepainless

It seems some people's choices mean they don't suffer the consequences. Her body, her choice, but in the end I hope employers make the right choice for their workplace and loyal staff and treat her absence as unpaid leave. She isn't actually sick.

This in a nutshell.

At the start of covid, my employers decided they would pay anyone self-isolating in full. I absolutely supported this.

Now we have a small cohort of people having to self isolate because they have chosen not to have the vaccine. Whilst others who have been vaccinated do their work.

It is, of course, their choice. But it's not fair that they're being paid for 10 days at home because they have chosen not to take steps which would have prevented that.

Fucks sake. YADefinitelyNBU. She is.

The analogy doesn’t hold up number one.
But number 2: no one is saying everyone has to have the vaccine, just that if you choose not to have the vaccine (for yourself) then you loose the right to fully participate in society as that puts other people- and the economy and the society as a whole - at risk. Particularly as you are effectively piggybacking on other people being less self interested that you are.
I’m with Austria who say unvaccinated people should just stay locked down.

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
This.
It’s not compulsory and she’s just following the rules.
I’m upset about people getting lengthy sick leave whilst taking the piss but I’ll take a few anti vaxxers over a rule of law that says every citizen must have it.
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@CBroads

You are being unreasonable. Is it nice up there on your vaccinated high horse ? Honestly some of you lot need to go to North Korea, you'd enjoy living there with all of the freedoms they don't have.

You want the jab? Fine. I don't and I won't be bullied into it either.

Hyperbole.

So, not Test & Trace informing her of being a close contact, and being told she would be breaking the law to leave her house then?

YABU.
It’s not her fault, it is the fault of Covid cultists who are insisting on everyone, including pregnant women, taking a potentially dangerous treatment for a virus that is of minimal risk to healthy people.

YANBU to be annoyed that you have additional workload continuously. You should be taking this up with your management and asking how it can be managed better.

YABU to think someone should get vaccinated because you want them to. Other people's medical decisions are fuck all to do with you

getting vaccinated is a choice.

choice comes with consequences.

the consequences in these circumstances should be unpaid leave.

in my job, there would be a real possibility we would end up being reviewed because we were unable to perform our duties if it was repeatedly happening.

Where did OP say what the reason for her colleague not having the vaccine was?

In the OP?

It says she chose not to get vaccinated.

I would not allowed to work as a bus driver if I chose to turn up for my shift drunk. Her choice has consequences for others.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the current rules, if she remains unvaccinated and the rules don't change then she is simply going to be unable to do the job on a reliable basis. It would then be a management decision as to how they deal with that.

In the meantime, my sympathies are with the OP if she is having to pick up the slack.

@XenoBitch

It's right there. Beginning of second paragraph.

Here, I'll help!
A new colleague chose not to be jabbed

Presumably, there's been a discussion about this. Anti-vaxxers are pretty proud of being stupid, I am sure it was loudly and proudly announced in the staff room.

Again, OP didn’t say her colleague has taken numerous isolations, but the OP is annoyed that she could potentially have numerous isolations.

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...
She didn’t make up the isolation rules though? She is not obliged to have any medical procedure she doesn’t want to have. She is not refusing to work, the system is preventing her from working.