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My workplace requires me to visit the office once every two weeks. And even then I only go for a friendly one-on-one type of lunch with my boss. Nothing we ever
by feq543ni0g 5y ago
My workplace requires me to visit the office once every two weeks. And even then I only go for a friendly one-on-one type of lunch with my boss. Nothing we ever discuss justifies the two hour commute, the same things could be discussed in Zoom. And yet, I am supposed to visit every two weeks.
Now it turned out that during my last visit my boss had already been infected with covid. So not only me, but my wife and my two kids will need to stay home, isolate and take days off to look after the kids. WTF is the point of this? I am losing valuable vacation days, my boss also loses an employee for days (and my wife's boss ditto) and the kids will go bat-shit crazy because they will not be allowed to go outside.
Yay. How much fun the office it is.
And this was just one example of how idiotic and unproductive this whole on-site in-person office work arrangement is.
- burner556 5y agoUse your sick time dude not vacation days
- h0p3 5y agoAt some places, you get to choose when to use sick days but not vacation days. All else being equal, in that case, I'd sometimes prefer to burn vacation.
- willcipriano 5y agoEvery job I've had they are one and the same. You just have PTO.
- thfuran 5y agoI have unlimited sick days and finite vacation days.
- willcipriano 5y agoA policy like that would make me sick!
- thfuran 5y agoI've never gone on a sickcation but I think well over 40% of my sickdays have been weekend-adjacent. A baffling statistical anomaly to be sure.
- wu_187 5y agoAlmost all jobs have gotten rid of sick days and have you use PTO. The US labor laws suck.
- slaw 5y agoWhy you need to stay home and isolate? Is it required in your country?
- Symbiote 5y agoLaws are irrelevant. It's the considerate thing to do.
- apurtbapurt 5y agoOf course stay away from crowded, public, indoor spaces. But keeping your kids indoors is not considerate towards anyone. It is simply abusive to your kids. Let them out in the garden/park/street to play.
- mikro2nd 5y ago"Required" or not, it's called "being a grown-up".
- slaw 5y agoStaying at home without symptoms is called brainwashed.
- throwaway684936 5y agoAre you aware of the concept of an incubation period?