The path to vaccination in SE MI seems a bit disorganized from the state and institution level so I'm curious what others here have experienced. Two things around the process stood out to me.
First - the reliance on employers to report on who should get a vaccination - at least in education. Those employers are only given very general and very vague guidelines on determining priority. Some employers are choosing to make that determination on their own, often with little insight into how the decisions are made while others are asking employees fill out surveys asking if they are over 65, have any major risk factors etc. Those surveys often pass on that vagueness to employees. I know one person at a large institution who got a survey from her employer that asked "Are you an essential employee?". She asked her boss who asked their boss and neither knew the answer as they had no further direction given to them (She largely monitors a data center which is mostly remote work for her role. That said she is required to come to the "office" when necessary and even had an official letter to avoid the enforced lockdowns in March. But that "office" is also a large, well ventilated data center with, at most, 2 other masked people in it.)
Second - rules and processes differ by the vaccination locations. One location allows a certain number of people to wait around at certain times in case the vials have more doses than officially promised. This is not widely advertised (perhaps by design as they can't do this for a lot of people and don't know how many additional doses they can give?). Another place allows people to schedule vaccination shots online themselves, bypassing the employer process. That said, while I was chatting with a few med techs last night, I found out that has been a 3 week long 'bug' in their scheduling system and you aren't supposed to be able to do that and they are working to remove that functionality. Which has now been around long enough that it has made it's way into 'official' process documentation. It's how my wife got her shot scheduled - she was was sent a PDF by her employer with a link to a how-to video someone made explaining the process using this self schedule ability. And these two vaccination locations are some of the largest hospital systems in the state...
I will say the process for administering the vaccination was a well oiled machine. So that is a plus