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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 60 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Yeah WTF, what if you get sick again? Do you tell the flu to sit it out or prepetuate the epidemic?

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

Believe it out not, straight to jail.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I was always told to never call in sick. If you’re sick, you go to work and only if the manager says to go home should you leave work.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 37 points 4 months ago
[–] Kingofclubs615@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shit that doesn't even save you at some places. I was working and started feeling shitty ended up having a 103° fever, and was sent home. It still counted as an absence against me during my review.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So compare that with my experience of a few years ago when one of my relatives had an accident, and I was the one who could care for them for a few weeks.

Their conversation with their boss:
- Hey boss, I had an accident, I'll be out of work for a bit.
- Oh, what happened?
- Look, I would rather not talk about it.
- When are you coming back?
- It will most likely be a month.
- Okay, see you in a month then.

My conversation:
- Hey HR person, I need two weeks of care leave to care for a relative.
- Okay, see you in two weeks!

And that was all that's legally required of us, and legally permitted to the employers. We were both fully paid for the leave, as both employers were insured for exactly this. And the sky hasn't fallen, and the GDP is up, and we still live in a prosperous first world country.

[–] Kingofclubs615@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

Damn that sounds nice.

[–] Omega_Man@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah that would not fly. In America, workers are viewed as children and owners are parents. The owners feel like their children are trying to get out of work. It's the owners job, as the responsible parental figure to steer the child-employee in the right direction. American workers are unable to be responsible on their own. (Mind you these are all adults).

You also see this in American academia with faculty routinely referring to grown adult students as "kids."

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

You get everyone else sick, like Supply Side Jesus intended!

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately you're likely taking unpaid time off until short term disability kicks in (usually 6 weeks)

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

wait until you see this documentary they made a few years ago, called "Breaking Bad".