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one_voice

(20,043 posts)
20. Sick days...
Sat Feb 9, 2013, 04:53 PM
Feb 2013

or just a set number of days of a year--which can be used if you're sick isn't the problem, taking them and keeping your job is.

When you call out or even take a vacay many employers look down on it and you. You're expected to work as if you own the company or else you're easily replaced. Until this changes you can have 100 sick days and 8 weeks vacation, doesn't matter, taking them puts your job in jeopardy.

We've turned our work force into acceptable slaves, for lack of a better term. I'm sure someone else can put this into better words, I'm not very good at it.

Until we have an economic system that rewards innovation and compassionate values, we will be stuck gtar100 Feb 2013 #1
Sick leave..... sendero Feb 2013 #2
I would prefer sick leave, and that co-workers remained home when they are sick instead of feeling peacebird Feb 2013 #3
Sick leave is dying.. sendero Feb 2013 #4
I don't know the people you work with, but the people Arkansas Granny Feb 2013 #5
Fair enough... sendero Feb 2013 #7
Maybe people need more paid time off. baldguy Feb 2013 #6
That would be nice and this is well known.. sendero Feb 2013 #8
That's how mine works too. dkf Feb 2013 #13
"growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell". Bosso 63 Feb 2013 #9
"unreasonable and not practical, and most likely would stunt any growth opportunities." marmar Feb 2013 #10
+1 xchrom Feb 2013 #11
FMLA doesn't apply to small businesses. Small businesses don't have to provide ANY sick leave. Honeycombe8 Feb 2013 #12
Companies and public entities widely abuse FMLA duffyduff Feb 2013 #15
when I worked for the state littlewolf Feb 2013 #14
When my co first started mzteris Feb 2013 #16
About 2 years ago my firm combined sick and vacation into PTO prole_for_peace Feb 2013 #17
My situation is similar to sendero's. I have 30 days of Paid Time off and 10 Holidays stevenleser Feb 2013 #18
kr HiPointDem Feb 2013 #19
Sick days... one_voice Feb 2013 #20
I guess I am very lucky then littlewolf Feb 2013 #21
Selfish greedy assholes are walking all over us. When are we going to stop this? Initech Feb 2013 #22
*Facepalm* SayWut Feb 2013 #23
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