Two-time Oscar-winning actor and disaster relief philanthropist Sean Penn is deploying his nonprofit organization’s army of volunteers and staff at COVID-19 vaccine sites in Los Angeles and testing sites across the U.S., earning praise for taking action when the government came up short.
But not everyone is so enchanted, namely two people who claim to work for Penn’s group, Community Organized Relief Effort.
The unnamed pair wrote disparaging comments about Penn’s operation in the comments section of a recent in the New York Times that depicted a day at a vaccination site. One commenter, a self-described “CORE staff” member, said employees were required to work 18-hour days, six days per week, “without the opportunity to take breaks.”
Sean Penn slams COVID vaccine workers who are complaining 04/02/2021|3min
Actor and founder of relief non-profit CORE Sean Penn has blasted coronavirus vaccine workers who anonymously complained about working “18 hours, six days per week” with “no opportunity to take breaks.”
The 60-year-old started the Community Organized Relief Effort in 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti, but in the past year the group have been helping to provide relief with the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr. Penn fired up when he heard reports of staff complaining and said they were welcome to quit. It s called quitting. Quit for CORE. Quit for your colleagues who won t quit. Quit for your fellow human beings who deeply recognize that this is a moment in time. A moment of service that we must all embody sometimes to the point of collapse. That s my job. And that s your job, he said.