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(DIR) Post #Ab0eOB4Qx0Hb2Or1VY by knittingknots2@mstdn.social
2023-10-21T11:27:19Z
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Wall Street Journal complains about workers using their sick days | Boing Boing"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."https://boingboing.net/2023/10/21/wall-street-journal-complains-about-workers-using-their-sick-days.html
(DIR) Post #Ab0eOMA9i4ObRKcFSC by Npars01@mstdn.social
2023-10-21T13:13:22Z
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@knittingknots2 The wealthy have a number of ways of prolonging the covid pandemic. 1. Funding covid disinformation2. Encouraging vaccine hesitancy3. Back to the office initiatives4. Supporting snake oil cures like horse dewormer5. SeditionNow, they encourage the practice of working while sick.The pandemic saw their wealth balloon with the biggest taxpayer-funded bailouts in history.They want a do-over.https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-top-1-grew-richer-during-the-pandemic/Social engineering for self-enrichment.
(DIR) Post #Ab0eOQhcpZXrWIJ2B6 by Aviva_Gary@noc.social
2023-10-21T23:03:02Z
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@Npars01 @knittingknots2 This
(DIR) Post #Ab6kxKjFf2qErGc0Dg by migmit@mstdn.social
2023-10-21T12:09:03Z
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@knittingknots2 No, sick days are another form of US insanity when it comes to work culture. The idea that people should come to work when sick, out of fear that they might need those sick days later, is ridiculous. In normal countries you don't get "sick days", you get the "don't ever work sick" policy.
(DIR) Post #Ab6kxcwJxBzVL0rh5c by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-24T21:44:53Z
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@migmit What do you mean no sick days... we absolutely get sick days.You are right americans tend to go to work to save their sickdays.. but thats largely because they would rather use sickdays on days they arent sick.@knittingknots2
(DIR) Post #Ab6l36KU6vkPw7mHJo by migmit@mstdn.social
2023-10-24T21:45:56Z
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@freemo @knittingknots2 Really? How many sick days do you have left?
(DIR) Post #Ab6neRd84tGkceQue0 by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-24T22:15:05Z
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@migmit Me, My jobs have always given me unlimited sick days. I have literally never had a job that gave me a fixed number of sick days except when i worked int he EU...@knittingknots2
(DIR) Post #Ab6nk0cLQIdOa7ieoq by migmit@mstdn.social
2023-10-24T22:16:06Z
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@freemo @knittingknots2 That's exactly what I said. You might try to work on you reading comprehension.
(DIR) Post #Ab6ntMnkJUNdzRVx7A by migmit@mstdn.social
2023-10-24T22:17:47Z
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@freemo @knittingknots2> My jobs have always given me unlimited sick days.That's exactly what I said.
(DIR) Post #Ab6oDrBP45uq0aLmJE by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-24T22:21:29Z
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@migmit Your original post was talking about how it is insanity that the US get fixes sickdays?I presume your confused because my info says I live in the Netherlands... 1) I have a home int he USA too 2) All work ive ever done as an employee has been USA except for one job in the Netherlands (not counting consulting)Interestingly that Netherlands job was the only one that actually had a fixed number of sick days, my USA jobs have never had fixed number of sick days.@knittingknots2
(DIR) Post #Ab6oGvV9SubiGr3ETA by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-24T22:22:03Z
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@migmit Oddly enough in the netherlands you would even need a doctors note to take sick days.. in the USA I have never heard of anyone demanding a doctors note.@knittingknots2
(DIR) Post #Ab6oIFIZLVGVxZnLF2 by knittingknots2@mstdn.social
2023-10-24T22:22:16Z
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@freemo @migmit Lots of jobs give no paid sick leave, or limited sick days (I have had some of both, but no job with unlimited paid sick leave and I've seen people fired for being sick too often as well). It's still nobody's business whether they use them for a fever or a day's break if they have the leave, as long as they have them.
(DIR) Post #Ab6oMHUx6piTwNVlFg by knittingknots2@mstdn.social
2023-10-24T22:22:59Z
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@freemo @migmit Oh I have had to produce them upon occasion.
(DIR) Post #Ab6oNmKXxfeTr2MGRc by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-24T22:23:17Z
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@knittingknots2 Every job I have ever had int he USA (which is almost all of them as an employee) had unlimited sick days AND my sick days were fully paid.@migmit
(DIR) Post #Ab6oPCqUrbUsNbz1Si by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-24T22:23:32Z
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@knittingknots2 Are you in the USA?@migmit
(DIR) Post #Ab6oUMyicODDFmI6hk by knittingknots2@mstdn.social
2023-10-24T22:24:28Z
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@freemo @migmit all my life
(DIR) Post #Ab6ob0HjOEd4tlLats by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-24T22:25:40Z
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@knittingknots2 By the way to be clear I am not claiming my expiernce with sick days is typical. I was just asked about my personal expiernce and am answering. I am saying most other people do have fixed sick days, even though i never have, int he USA. Its just that most people wont use them so they can use them later when they arent sick... or because they cant afford to not get paid, one of the two. Usually a bit of both.@migmit
(DIR) Post #Ab6oeQ2U5qOrdrqPZI by migmit@mstdn.social
2023-10-24T22:26:18Z
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@freemo @knittingknots2 Dutch labor law pretty much makes fixed sick days illegal.
(DIR) Post #Ab6oiU2t8gSPE5yIBU by thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club
2023-10-24T22:27:02.285774Z
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@freemo @knittingknots2 @migmit the idea of unlimited PTO actually pisses me off because it doesn't actually mean unlimited and I'd rather know my limits than get an ambiguous "as much as you feel comfortable taking" bs
(DIR) Post #Ab6onMeE4TlbjLlNJI by migmit@mstdn.social
2023-10-24T22:27:55Z
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@freemo @knittingknots2 And I do not trust your generalizations about what other employees do.
(DIR) Post #Ab6onpSWx2dv5TVwbg by knittingknots2@mstdn.social
2023-10-24T22:27:53Z
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@freemo @migmit And once again I say it's nobody's business how they use their sick leave.
(DIR) Post #Ab6orTlTYK5Axg7GVs by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-24T22:28:39Z
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@migmit As was explained to me the number of sick days were fixed but if i had an actual injury that would cause me to need more then there is a process, like you wont loose your job.But thats true of the USA too.. it is illegal to fire someone in the USA due to illness.@knittingknots2
(DIR) Post #Ab6p2VJo7GN4xwQpLk by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-24T22:30:39Z
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@knittingknots2 @migmit Well you get vacation days as a seperate alotment. And if you use your sickdays for vacation, and especially if you come in sick to do so, then I think its the company's business as your causing harm to your coworkers to do that.
(DIR) Post #Ab6q2sImlQG2Cah78C by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-24T22:41:54Z
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@thatguyoverthere Depends ont he boss, and if you get paid for that time off... If you arent getting paid some bosses may truely be ok with any limit.@knittingknots2 @migmit
(DIR) Post #Ab7dUiO47FsZJX4KMC by gpowerf@mastodon.social
2023-10-25T07:55:59Z
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@freemo @knittingknots2 @migmit if you get sick, you don't get paid? Short term? Is that standard in your country?