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The argument against sick days is fucking bonkers to me. You want people to come in and get the rest of the office sick?? One of the many many reasons I prefer working from home.
2020 taught people nothing.
I got a bad cold or something one time. I spent 2 weeks working from home then the boss told me to go to a doctor. Went and they found nothing so I had to come in. 1.5 weeks later I was over it but not before the rest of the office got pissed at me for getting them sick. I just told them I was forced to come in.
It’s not so much the argument it’s workplace policies that say 6 or more days a year means you can be fired with cause. A late clock-in counts as half of one of those.
At least that’s been standard at most places I’ve worked.
You need a new career, yikes
That's rough. Not even my shittier jobs have had that policy
Brutal. There is a world beyond the American dystopia, you know.
And I've learned it doesn't want us unless we wanna be nomads or we really have something amazing to offer.
(Maybe I'm setting the bar too high looking into Scandanavia lol)
That's the problem with Gen Z: they don't want to SHARE
GEN Z IS KILLING WORKING YOURSELF TO DEATH
It's not even that.
In an office setting sick days literally help productivity, because metrics and workload should account for employee's work hours.
If someone's on leave for a day, theyre taken out of production numbers.
If they "tough it out" then production numbers say they should produce a normal days workload.
You end up looking worse encouraging a work culture where people don't take days off.
Ha! Good one
I don't agree with measuring productivity that way. Coworker recently had covid, but they still worked from home. Granted, they put in maybe half the hours they would normally. But, boss was good with it as the alternative was zero work done at all. They still got some work done without burning any sick days.
Count your blessings. I've been sick enough to mute my work call while vomiting. (They needed me that day, and mostly I just needed to be on that call.)
But I've absolutely had days where I couldn't get far out of bed.
Yeah that doesn't work for kitchen staff.