My department traveled in ‘mandatory’ fashion to orlando last week to celebrate the end of covid. I refused to go due to having an 82-year-old mom, the risk of infecting her, and already having lost my immunocompromised father to it (in Florida). I was told not going would risk promotion chances. 2 and counting have since come back with covid. So **** human resources who value head count over humanity.
For the inevitable jokes, i don’t live with my Mom, but I go out of my way not to be a vector of disease for her when I visit