When I worked at Starbucks, we were threatened with "low/no hours for the next week or 2". It wasn't 'official policy', but it was certainly tolerated. 1-2 week

When I worked at Starbucks, we were threatened with "low/no hours for the next week or 2". It wasn't 'official policy', but it was certainly tolerated. 1-2 weeks is small enough that unemployment insurance won't cover that, but is extremely detrimental to the wages we got. Our store made some of the highest profits in the area, so certain policies were fuzzy. If you get my drift. That was just 1 corner cut. Unless we were in the hospital, we came in sick. I made your drinks sick. I took money and got pastries sick. I made other patrons sick. I made other employees sick. The one time I "got out of working sick" was when I told the shift manager that I felt very bad and requested home. She said to wait it out. And I suddenly had a bad urge to vomit. I was in the doorway of the front room and back room. Lets just say it was bad. I was sent home for illness that day.