In this thread: Americans bragging that not only have they never used a sick day, they used their lunchbreak to go back and wrestle the bear for their severed arm which they then reattached with staples they paid for themselves so they could put in a full afternoon of work.
A friend was working for a pool construction company and I really wanted the job so when they finally took me on I pretty much immediately had a piece of rebar go through my calf. I asked the homeowner for some duct tape and kept working… Lol it was my first day and I wanted the job.
Obviously I didn’t get called back… Seen as a liability I suppose lol
Great article in terms of calling out the sentiment, but their analysis is really dumb.
Just to be clear: the idea that sick days somehow impose a financial burden of the company is a blatant lie of criminal proportions. It is a justification for wage theft — the most common and most costly form of burglary in America. Sick days are part of an employees’ compensation package; therefore, sick days are just another form of money owed to the workers. If a company is spending the money that it legally and contractually owes to a worker
Not only is this not accurate whatsoever, as companies are not required to pay you for unused sick time (thus making it not wage theft - also it isn’t wage theft to complain - but the money isn’t contractually owed at all).
What makes this truly bad though is that employers that do pay out for unused sick time see way fewer incidences of “sick time as general PTO,” and workers actually get their full comp, and should be a standard across all employers. They literally skip over the thing that would be better for workers and employers, in their analysis.
If a worker wants to trade pay for time off, that should be their right. They should also be paid for the time off they don’t take, as it is indeed factored into employee comp on the corporate level.
Sick days are part of an employees’ compensation package
Not only is this not accurate whatsoever, as companies are not required to pay you for unused sick time
If the employment contract states “paid sick days” then your take is entirely wrong.
What makes this truly bad though is that employers that do pay out for unused sick time see way fewer incidences of “sick time as general PTO,” and workers actually get their full comp, and should be a standard across all employers.
Great, so we’re back to incentivizing people to not take the time to get better and creating an even more toxic environment for “pushing through”.
The whole idea of paid sick days is to create a burden free environment so that people can take the time to recover without thinking “I really need this extra bit of cash, I’ll just suck it up”.
Yeah “bad actors” - but they knew what they were doing and didn’t do anything to stop it.
By pure coincidence they started to make more money from freemium games ads so they pivoted to that, and anyway being blocked by Ms defender was a death sentence. It was not “OMG bad actors are abusing our installers, and 99% of our customers are bad actors, let’s discontinue it immediately and find another market”
I believe the last two listed (‘Thou shalt not covet…’) are considered to be the same commandment, although they appear as two separate verses in the Bible.
My death is when I permanently stop experiencing life.
Not sure what that means for an ‘Upload’ scenario… I guess he’s just a swamp man of me and he’s alive but I’m not anymore… but I’m not signing up for the digital afterlife anyway.
I’ve been getting podcast ads lately for “natural diamonds” which is badmouthing man made diamonds and a it give a couple very true facts about how 80% of the diamond’s value stays in the community and it’s all legal and above board and definitely no one dies for these diamonds.
Yeah, well fuck them. I used up my one week’s worth of sick days and all of my PTO and am now on FMLA because I’m dealing with an illness that is causing me to miss work. What the fuck am I supposed to do? They told me to go on FMLA.
I had to use FMLA leave a couple years back when I was out for a planned surgery that took about 4-6 weeks to recover from.
Technically, I think FMLA really only ensures you’ll have a job to return to. They legally cannot fire you or lay you off if you’re on FMLA.
FMLA doesn’t offer any paid time off, though, so most employers require you to use your accrued time off (both sick time and vacation time) concurrently with your FMLA leave. Once that runs out, you stop getting paid.
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