>long, overly personal explanations of why they can’t come in I mean, the OP post already alludes to the issue with american labor where you're pressured to do

>long, overly personal explanations of why they can’t come in I mean, the OP post already alludes to the issue with american labor where you're pressured to do something like fake a death in the family to justify taking a day off of what should be a totally replaceable hourly shift. Hourly wage labour jobs are pressured to give those overly personal explanations to get managers to respect any request for time off and it's just seen as the norm.