The supposed different “generations” i.e. millennials/Gen X/boomers etc is just liberalism’s attempt to replace class analysis by framing the different generations as coherent classes with different interests. It conveniently fails to mention that there are working class & ruling class people in all generations.
By making all ppl of a certain age responsible for inflation & higher cost of living or w/e, the responsibility of the ruling class is obscured, to the detriment of the working class & to the benefit of the ruling class.
Most places in the US that handle food don’t have sick leave. I work in a deli in a grocery store and I was sick for a week. I worked anyway because if I call out, I wouldn’t get paid and therefore not make rent and then I’d also get written up. Hope nobody got sick getting their lunchmeat lol.
It seems that the places that work with food punishes workers the hardest when they call out sick, which discourages sick people from abstaining from work and encourages the further spreading of disease.
So what happens if you start coughing blood or be a complete mess
You likely just get sent home for the day.
The only time I was ever sent home before the end of my shift was when I literally collapsed because my breathing was failing.
It’s honestly not unusual for management to just tell you to keep moving, drink extra cough syrup and “tough it out.”
I work for an organization that is within the same building as a hospital.
It’s not just about having the leave. It’s also about the culture of being allowed to use it. I know, for instance, if nurses in certain departments use more than two days of sick time within a set time they have to do a formal meeting and explanation to their bosses. Not like two in a row but two in a month. So if you do get sick you need to worry about whether or not it’s legitimate.
I get this all the time.
I live in constant anxiety. In 2004 I seroconverted and got my HIV diagnosis. I had good enough numbers it was decided to hold off as on meds. About two years later my CD4s cut in half and my viral load tripled. I started to get sick all the time. My doc took forEVER to convince to get me on meds. And in that time I had 48 sick days.
My employers, unsurprisingly, noted this and “not to threaten you but if you’re not well enough to do this job we’ll need to find someone who is”. Which is … passive aggressive but fun.
EVER SINCE. Any time I take time off sick?
There jokes and comments that indicate people don’t think I’m actually getting sick. That I’m just lazing around at home. I have to, once in a while, show up to work sick – visibly sick – to prove that I’m not trying to just get time off.
We do healthcare research.
Inside a hospital.
GETTING the days is definitely a huge thing which is shitty beyond words. But then getting to use them is the next hurdle.
Jesus fuck.
I am not surprised by this, but I am absolutely infuriated on your behalf, friend.
“make america great again!” ok, where are my untouched national parks? where are my unpolluted rivers and aquifers? where are my trash-free coasts? you don’t want the old america back, you just want the oppression and racism and general inequality that we’ve been trying to erase for years. say you’re a self-important bigoted old bitch and move on
I firmly believe that not only should we raise the minimum wage, but we should also create a maximum wage. There is no reason in which an orthopedic surgeon, which is the highest paying doctor will make an average of $464,500 a year, while the top 10 CEOs earn well over $33 BILLION a year. If we even so much as cap their earning potential at $1 billion, which is more money than anyone should really need to live a happy fulfilling lifestyle, then it would force them to put that money toward the company or be punished. This means giving their employees better health insurance, giving them more vacations, better wages, paying for their college or their children’s education, creating more jobs, and improving the functionality of their companies. Perhaps even force them to invest in the communities they are serving.
For those of you who are still skeptical… let me put it this way… the highest earning CEO “earned” $156,077,912 in 2014.
Let’s boil this down. There’s about 52 weeks in a year. Let’s say that he works 40 hours a week. So a total of 2,080 hours a year. That’s $75,037 an hour. The median HOUSEHOLD income in the US is $50,502 per year. He’s earning 1.5 times the amount per hour than the average household makes in a year. That disparity is absurd.
To put that even further into perspective, the average NEUROLOGIST earns $219,000 a year according to a 2014 statistic. Every single one of the CEOs on the 100 highest paid CEOs earn at least 93 TIMES the amount that a NEUROLOGIST makes.
Something needs to change. People shouldn’t be starving for the sake of someone else’s greed.
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