this aint funny though more like depressing
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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wellness checks are deducted from her payroll??? is this legal ? the us labor laws are weird man
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I used to work for a call center that had an automated call out system, so you didn't have to talk to anyone or give a specific excuse. However, at some point management instituted a policy requiring supervisors to call their employees to "check in on their wellbeing." I don't even have to be cynical to know the real purpose because I was in the meetings where they talked about it as a tactic to reduce absenteeism.
Surely you didn't have to answer, if your policy is "do X to call in sick". You're just putting your phone to silent to rest.
That would be my response, but a lot of people can be guilt tripped into coming in to work anyway.
Jokes on them, I stopped being vulnerable to guilt tripping at 17. I guess my alcoholic abusive mother was good for something after all.
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I'm glad I was able to intervene when an employee just didn't show up for a few days, couldn't get ahold of him. My manager (a good guy) asked me if I thought we should call the cops for a wellness check, I told him we couldn't call the cops on a disabled black guy.
Not sure what went down with him but he ended up calling in and he was okay. He either quit shortly after or never came back, I don't remember. Last I heard he was pursuing his passion teaching skiing to kids with cancer and disabilities. Cool dude.
Yeah my first thought seeing this was "oh that person is gonna get killed if they send the cops". Glad you had some smarts there. There have been multiple indigenous people killed in wellness checks in Canada as well in recent weeks.
The line between dystopic memes and Black Mirror is getting hella blurry :|
you can tell the difference. if it has good writing, it's more likely to be a meme.
It's just cool to imagine a social media tool that's monetized SWATing.
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