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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

So sad that we went through covid and people are still so idiotic to accept working while sick as a society. Paying for one person to stay home while sick saves far more than half of a workforce making mistakes and not getting anything done for 2 weeks to a month as transmission cascades. Not to mention the additional low performance month as their home life is disrupted by additional family members getting sick, or the probability of serious complications for key individuals of a large workforce. It isn't tough, or reasonable to perpetuate such a culture; it is absolute incompetence and lackadaisical ineptitude rooted in a paranoid conservative distrust of a small minority of potential abusers. Or really it is a willingness to harm and kill others instead of creating the potential for the oppressed and abused to cause minor but still insignificant retribution across the class divide.

[–] _____@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Agreed but unfortunately it's either don't get paid or work from home. I don't think people socially accepted it as much as had no other choice.

[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

You do have a choice, it just happens to be rather desynchronized. It happens at the voting booth.