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I thought the parent was making a joke. Is this actually a thing in America? In Australia I have never seen this in any of my contracts.
by shortcake27 3y ago
I thought the parent was making a joke. Is this actually a thing in America? In Australia I have never seen this in any of my contracts.
- monetus 3y agoI'm in Appalachia; It is common.
- waveBidder 3y agoit's a thing. companies are responsible for employees health insurance as well, so they'd rather not have someone who actually uses that a lot.
- 0xcde4c3db 3y agoIt's also pretty common IME for managers of retail and similar public-facing brick-and-mortar positions to have a bugbear about employees "looking lazy", which includes things like sitting, leaning, walking slowly or aimlessly, etc..
- pierat 3y agoThe only joke is the laughable enforcement of the ADA, including shallow-as-hell obvious ploys to exclude disabled people without saying "we don't want to work with cripples". And pregnant people. Again, to business fucks, these people are liabilities - we can't use their body up since it's already used up. Take a look over here to see a bunch of anecdotes about this very US based 'policy' https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/15dvtwa/why_do_some_jobs_require_that_you_can_lift_50lbs/ https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/15dvtwa/why_do_so... This also goes directly along side that retail workers are NOT permitted to have chairs at a register, because of the similar reason (standing constantly excludes disabled and pregnant folk). And somehow sitting=lazy unless it's white collar work. We're allowed to be 'lazy'.