Imagine having a set amount of days you’re allowed to be sick and are expected not to use them when you actually are sick.
The US is not failing. It has always been fucked up.
You make my current government look reasonable even when it’s making using healthcare as much of an annoyance and throwing as many obstacles in your way as possible.
You make my current government look reasonable
Do you understand how little that narrows it down?
I remember once I had an interview and they told me the number of sick days and I was so confused lol. How could you possibly determine the number of times I will be sick before it happens.
If I’m sick I’m not coming I don’t care what number you wrote down lol
My favorite interview experience was at a company that listed the expected salary on the job posting. Then when the question of my salary came up I told them I was happy with what they said they offered in the ad. It was in line with other ads for similar positions. That was not the right answer. They said that if I was actually passionate about the company that I would have made a low offer to save the department money. I remarked that I wasn’t an employee yet so the department and companies wellbeing wasn’t one of my priorities. I didn’t get the job, although I wasn’t upset I didn’t.
Jesus fckn Christ, what a shithole company. Massive bullet dodged there.
You’re allowed to be sick more days, they just won’t pay you for it.
I have a set amount of sick days too unfortunately.
180 days in a year. After that the government says tough luck, work or starve.
Won’t happen here either. If you are sick, your employer has to pay your regular salary for six weeks. After that, your health insurance pays Krankengeld (usually 70% of your gross salary) for up to 72 more weeks. After that, unemployment insurance covers you.
Employer only pays first week or two here, after that it’s the government till you hit 6 months. Companies would go bankrupt left and right if they had to pay 6 weeks lol. My ex takes the maximum sick leave she can while still getting paid, about half a year of sick leave every year. Essentially, she gets a job, works for a week or 2, then breaks a wrist on purpose or gets a migraine. But it’s not always the whole six months straight, sometimes it’s a month and then she works for another week. That would reset the employer’s duty to pay her sick leave and puts the company in an awkward position if it’s a smaller one.
The US is failing, though. The entire world has always been fucked up. Every place has its problems. There was a point of divergence between the US and countries that have things better off where the US stopped improving, though. This moment happened after FDR died in 1945. With his death, the movement to universal healthcare died. Then, just two years later, the Taft–Hartley Act passed and gutted the power of unions. That same year, McCarthyism became a thing. And after that, it just took a while for the momentum to die and for everything gained to be lost. If we want to look at the moment of failure for the US, it happened long before Trump, Bush, Reagan, and Nixon. Henry Wallace was the vice president of FDR from 1941-1945. Then, the party decided to replace him with a conservative, Harry Truman. This decision is ultimately what screwed the US. Had FDR refused to replace Henry Wallace, history would have taken a very different path.
Hey now it’s not like I can get a doctor appointment anyway
Unfortunately they DO notice when you actually take sick days. Avoiding taking sick days isn’t so much about thinking you’ll get rewarded as it is about trying not to get punished.
I threw up on my boss once. He doesn’t bother me anymore. Mainly cuz I got fired, but it wasn’t for throwing up on him, no, I just fucked his wife while his dog watched. He walked in on us. It was an affair of an affair, I gotta say, at least I finished, and then I threw up. Spermicide does that to me for some reason, so I just raw dog it with whomever, or let them bareback me.
Art, obviously
Nothing like FMLA to signal your employer to scrutinize the minutia of your job performance.
Currently at the office on a Monday morning after they fired they guy above me a few months back and are now expecting me to not only do my job but his job as well. They raised my pay by $1 an hour, by the way. Jokes on them because I’m putting in exactly as much effort as one should while expected to do two peoples jobs for low pay and it’s not that much work at all.
I’m in a similar situation, my entire team of 6 was laid off except for me. Now I’m on a team of 3 with an AI and expect to do more now than before. I’ve told them numerous times the AI has only slowed us down due to the numerous mistakes it makes but they don’t like hearing things that make them question their “brilliant” decision making abilities.
I’ve decided to in a way to quiet quit and literally let the AI do everything like they wanted. I know its making tons of mistakes but I simply don’t care anymore. Things will go to shit and deadlines will be missed I’ll blame the AI and tell them I was told numerous times its great and to use it. I’ll probably still get fired but then they will lose the last person who understands all of the projects my team had worked on for years. I’ll be fine but I can’t say the same about them.
This is how you’re supposed to respond to awful management directives. Follow it to the T and when it fails tell them why.
If you ‘do the right thing’ and create work-arounds and hidden fixes to problems management created, they will think their decisions were absolutely justified and were the correct course of action. They’ll pat themselves on the back, give you an attaboy, and move into the next disaster with misplaced confidence, all without ever seeing all the cracks in their plan that you silently filled as you carried the weight on your back.
Fizbo the clown is no fool, I’ll have you know.
Last week I took three days of sick leave while not being sick and enjoyed every single second of it🥳
We’re having a major go-live this month. Management wanted someone to visit on the third (when we observe the holiday). I volunteered because: I’m close, my kids are all grown, and I’m technically part of the management team.
While I was there, there was an issue. I dutifully reached out to one of the people managing some processes to see if her processes could be causing the issue. She didn’t reply.
I told one of the managers on site that day that I was proud of her for ignoring me, that she was doing exactly what I told her she should do, and I’d be upset if she had responded.
It turns out she never got the message until today. I told her if she had actually replied I would have yelled at her for reading work messages on the holiday.
It’s a weird kind of psychosis. I had to ask her, but I was happier not getting the response than I would have been if she had replied.
Gen-X here. I and many of my contemporaries learned that lesson by watching our parents. Hence the nonconformist “slacker” start and the high rate of job hopping in the 90’s and 2Ks. Somewhere along the way (looking at you 2008), that changed.
The kids thought we were just slackers for no reason, and the cycle began again.
I gotta be honest.
My employer did notice company wide no one was using sick days and “converted” them into “mental health days” (literally changed nothing but the name).and suddenly everyone is taking them left right and center.
Apparently labeling matters.
They’re usually officially labelled “personal days” down here.
Some employers try and demand a certificate if you’re sick longer than X days. I just never give them one. I don’t need to, its a pathetic power play. That’s my leave, already accrued by hours worked and part of my compensation. Fuck with it and i’ll see you in court.
Nobody wants to admit being mentally sick
How do You use a sick day?
I have unlimited PTO and take at least 3-4 weeks of vacation/sick time a year, never had anyone complain or give me shit for it.
The company is happy with my work output and sees me as a valuable source of knowledge. If it weren’t for C-level fuckery, this would be an amazing job
I’ve been told C++ level fuckery isn’t great either
/this is facetious just in case anyone thinks I actually thought they were talking about C programming and not the suits.
I have never tried this, but nonetheless I feel like they’ll always see me as an expendable employee lol
John Wayne Gacy is a meme now?
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