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Fast food worker who never called in sick when they were sick and risked infecting others? Disgusting. You cannot possibly tell me that a human never once got s
by ecf 3y ago
Fast food worker who never called in sick when they were sick and risked infecting others? Disgusting. You cannot possibly tell me that a human never once got sick
- NoraCodes 3y agoI wonder if there might be some structural problems in American labor policy that incentivize this kind of behavior
- ecf 3y agoNot really. While sick days are depressingly few in America, they DO exist. The fact this person took none of them is just nasty.
- pylua 3y agoYes there is. Don’t show up don’t get paid. That is a powerful motive.
- defrost 3y agoQuoting the source: Like Ford, many restaurant workers don't get paid sick leave As a single father with three daughters, Ford never took sick days because frankly, he couldn't afford to. Ford's job — like more than half of restaurant and accommodation jobs as of 2020 — does not offer paid sick leave, meaning workers typically do not get paid for missing work due to illness unless they dip into their paid vacation time.
- ecf 3y agoYep looks like I was wrong and this is even more disgusting than not calling in sick. I was under the false assumption that every non-exempt employee had 5 days minimum (which isn’t a lot), but restaurants workers have different laws applied to them? Bad look USA.
- hgsgm 3y agoPaid vacation time is paid sick time. It's paid time off either way.
- spicymapotofu 3y agoVacation time is often rejected, especially on short notice.
- wkat4242 3y agoI never understand having a repository of 'sick days' as if they're holidays. You should just be able to call in sick when really sick and for as long as needed. Verified by a doctor of course.
- Detrytus 3y agoAnd your employer would be forced to pay your salary indefinitely? No wonder they seek to limit this. In Europe companies only pay for your sick leave for maybe 30 days, after that money start coming from social security fund (.I.e. you are paid by government)
- HenryBemis 3y ago"paid by your government" = we pay taxes and elect a government to manage those funds for many purposes, one of them is so when WE get sick (the taxpayers) OUR money take care of us. The money doesn't come from the government, it comes from the taxpayers. The governments are supposed to do what they promised to do with our money via their election peogrammes. (In an ideal world that is...)
- Detrytus 3y agoYes, if you want to be nitpicking then government money is tax money. However that means that cost of the sick leave is spread over the whole society and not a single company, or single manager’s budget, making it easier to accept for business owners. That’s why Europeans typically do not have to worry about being paid for sick leave, unlike Americans.
- wkat4242 3y agoYeah but it's not like the sick time is limited here in Europe. My colleagues in the US are often like "I won't call in sick because I have no sick days left". That's dangerous en counterproductive. Where the money comes from is a secondary issue.
- paddim8 3y agoVerified by a doctor? Why would you waste a doctor's time for a cold? That sounds horribly inefficient. They don't have time for that
- more_corn 3y agoI’ve worked in a half dozen restaurants. Exactly zero of them offers paid sick days.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoI was sick a long time ago, 13 or 14 years. I work from home only since covid, before that I worked in an open space office.
- karaterobot 3y agoI guess he didn't have sick days, only vacation days he wanted to save for (one assumes) spending time with his family. So, a very tough position for him to be in, and an easy one to sympathize with. But yeah, in general, it is not heroic or laudable to go to work when you're sick, which is probably why he looked back at his 20 years and said "don't be like me".
- charles_f 3y ago> Ford's job — like more than half of restaurant and accommodation jobs as of 2020 — does not offer paid sick leave Just to make sure that you know who to be angry at.
- cityofdelusion 3y agoThis doesn't matter much because the restaurant industry in the U.S. has a very strong culture of not taking leave of _any_ kind since it messes up everyone else's schedule. It is usually the employees themselves who enforce this unwritten rule on each other by intense peer pressure.