Do you know how many people in your store are unvaccinated? As bad as staffing is now, do you think there will be a big problem company wide if too many people quit because of the mandate?
Do you know how many people in your store are unvaccinated? As bad as staffing is now, do you think there will be a big problem company wide if too many people quit because of the mandate?
Yes there already is a problem and now there will be a bigger problem. I picked up groceries a few days ago. I got to the store parked and then I get a text telling me to come back in an hour.
Oh No! I live 20 miles. I called the number and told them I lived 20 miles they said they will have it ready in 5 minutes. I did not intend to be mean but 20 miles is too far to come back and there was nothing else I could do in town. I am sure they were short staffed there was a manager bringing out orders bout time managers did some work. They could get more managers on their feet working.
-- Edited by i386 on Sunday 31st of October 2021 06:15:29 PM
Do you know how many people in your store are unvaccinated? As bad as staffing is now, do you think there will be a big problem company wide if too many people quit because of the mandate?
No official mandate yet. Its obvious these vaccines dont work. Peppermint Patty got it despite the shots.
I feel like we're very much in an employee's market right now with how many people are quitting their **** jobs lately even without the mandate, and especially when Kroger is refusing to pay more than peanuts to start out, they can't afford to mandate vaccines. Biden's "mandate for companies with 100+ employees" hasn't happened yet...
After reading the article linked above, more people should be convinced that the Covid Vaccines are not safe or effective. Here's the text in case you don't want to actually go to the site. A whistleblower involved in Pfizer's pivotal phase III Covid-19 vaccine trial has leaked evidence to a notable peer-reviewed medical publication that poor practices at the contract research company she worked for raise questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight.
Brook Jackson, a now-fired regional director at Ventavia Research Group, revealed to The BMJ that vaccine trials at several sites in Texas last year had major problems - including falsified data, broke fundamental rules, and were 'slow' to report adverse reactions. When she notified superiors of the issues she found, they fired her. A regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizers pivotal phase III trial.
Staff who conducted quality control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they were finding. After repeatedly notifying Ventavia of these problems, the regional director, Brook Jackson, emailed a complaint to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Ventavia fired her later the same day. Jackson has provided The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails.
-The BMJ Poor laboratory management Jackson, a trained clinical trial auditor with more than 15 years' experience, says she repeatedly warned her superiors of poor laboratory management, patient safety concerns, and data integrity issues. After she was ignored, she started documenting problems with the camera on her mobile phone. One photo, provided to The BMJ, showed needles discarded in a plastic biohazard bag instead of a sharps container box. Another showed vaccine packaging materials with trial participants identification numbers written on them left out in the open, potentially unblinding participants. Ventavia executives later questioned Jackson for taking the photos.
The unblinding was potentially far more severe as well. Per the trial's design, unblinded staff prepared and administered either Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine or a placebo. This was done to preserve the blinding of trial participants and other staff - including the principal investigator. At Ventavia, however, Jackson says that drug assignments were left in participants' charts and accessible to blinded personnel. The breach was corrected last September, two months into the trial at which point there were around 1,000 participants already enrolled. Jackson recorded a September 2020 meeting with two Ventavia directors, at which an executive can be heard saying that the company couldn't quantify the types and number of errors with their testing. "In my mind, it's something new every day," they said, adding "We know that it's significant."
According to the report, Ventavia also failed to keep up with data entry - as a Sept. 2020 email from Pfizer partner ICON reveals. "The expectation for this study is that all queries are addressed within 24hrs. ICON then highlighted over 100 outstanding queries older than three days in yellow. Examples included two individuals for which Subject has reported with Severe symptoms/reactions Per protocol, subjects experiencing Grade 3 local reactions should be contacted. Please confirm if an UNPLANNED CONTACT was made and update the corresponding form as appropriate. According to the trial protocol a telephone contact should have occurred to ascertain further details and determine whether a site visit is clinically indicated. FDA Inspection woes
Other documents provided to The BMJ reveal that Ventavia officials were worried about three employees . In an email in early August 2020, an executive identified three site staff members with whom they need to "Go over e-diary issue/falsifying data, etc." One of the employees was "verbally counseled for changing data and not noting late entry," a note reveals. During the September meeting, Ventavia executives and Jackson discussed the potential for the FDA to show up for an inspection. On former Ventavia employee told The BMJ that the company was petrified over the potential for an FDA audit, and were in fact expecting one over the Pfizer vaccine trial.
"People working in clinical research are terrified of FDA audits," Jill Fisher told the journal, adding however that the agency rarely does anything except review paperwork - usually months after a trial is over. "I dont know why theyre so afraid of them," she added - saying that she was surprised that the agency failed to inspect Ventavia following an employee complaint. "You would think if theres a specific and credible complaint that they would have to investigate that." FDA notified Jackson sent a Sept. 25 email to the FDA in which she wrote that Ventavia had enrolled over 1,000 participants at three sites, out of the full trial's 44,000 participants across 153 sites which included various academic institutions and commercial companies.
She raised concerns over issues she had witnessed, including:
Participants placed in a hallway after injection and not being monitored by clinical staff
Lack of timely follow-up of patients who experienced adverse events
Protocol deviations not being reported
Vaccines not being stored at proper temperatures
Mislabelled laboratory specimens,
and Targeting of Ventavia staff for reporting these types of problems.
Hours later, the FDA emailed her back, thanking her for her input but notifying her that they would not comment on any investigation which may result. That said, in August of this year, the FDA published a summary of its inspections of Pfizer's pivotal phase III trial. They looked at just nine out of the trial's 153 sites, and did not look at any of Ventavia's operations. Further, no inspections were conducted following the December 2020 emergency authorization of the vaccine.
Other employees corroborate Jackson's complaints Two former Ventavia employees spoke with The BMJ anonymously, and confirmed 'broad aspects' of Jackson's account. One said that she had worked on over four dozen clinical trials in her career, including many large trials, but had never experienced such a helter skelter work environment as with Ventavia on Pfizers trial. Ive never had to do what they were asking me to do, ever, she told The BMJ. It just seemed like something a little different from normalthe things that were allowed and expected. She added that during her time at Ventavia the company expected a federal audit but that this never came.
After Jackson left the company problems persisted at Ventavia, this employee said. In several cases Ventavia lacked enough employees to swab all trial participants who reported covid-like symptoms, to test for infection. Laboratory confirmed symptomatic covid-19 was the trials primary endpoint, the employee noted. (An FDA review memorandum released in August this year states that across the full trial swabs were not taken from 477 people with suspected cases of symptomatic covid-19.) I dont think it was good clean data, the employee said of the data Ventavia generated for the Pfizer trial. Its a crazy mess. -The BMJ
The second employee told The BMJ that working at Ventavia was unlike any environment she had experienced in 20 years of research. Since her firing, Jackson has reconnected with several Ventavia employees who either left or were fired themselves. One of them sent her a text message, which reads "everything that you complained about was spot on." Meanwhile, since Jackson reported issues with Ventavia to the FDA in September 2020, Pfizer has contracted with the company for four other vaccine clinical trials. One has to wonder - if the FDA is auditing less than 10% of trials, how many more potential whistleblowers could there be? 0
I only know about 2-3 people in my store that refuse to get vaccinated. The union would be up in arms about this trying to protect people. If kroger allows anti maskers this would be going too far.
I only know about 2-3 people in my store that refuse to get vaccinated. The union would be up in arms about this trying to protect people. If kroger allows anti maskers this would be going too far.
I bet there's more than two or three. When they allowed vaccinated employees to go without masks, you know that the unvaccinated employees took their masks off too.
^ Yeah, I'm on night crew and about a third of us aren't getting vaxxed. I can only imagine it's roughly the same in the rest of the store. And barely anyone's wearing masks before upper management shows up, despite the local mandate that EVERYONE in the store is told to wear a mask - obviously every employee is during the day, but half the customers aren't.
Also, polls show an interesting change in public opinion in this video, vaxxed or not. I guess I'm not the only one who feels this pandemic is over, that we just need to move on and live with it. Mask and vax if you want to, don't if you don't.
