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Imagine having a set amount of days you're allowed to be sick and are expected not to use them when you actually are sick.
The US is not failing. It has always been fucked up.
You make my current government look reasonable even when it's making using healthcare as much of an annoyance and throwing as many obstacles in your way as possible.
The US is failing, though. The entire world has always been fucked up. Every place has its problems. There was a point of divergence between the US and countries that have things better off where the US stopped improving, though. This moment happened after FDR died in 1945. With his death, the movement to universal healthcare died. Then, just two years later, the Taft–Hartley Act passed and gutted the power of unions. That same year, McCarthyism became a thing. And after that, it just took a while for the momentum to die and for everything gained to be lost. If we want to look at the moment of failure for the US, it happened long before Trump, Bush, Reagan, and Nixon. Henry Wallace was the vice president of FDR from 1941-1945. Then, the party decided to replace him with a conservative, Harry Truman. This decision is ultimately what screwed the US. Had FDR refused to replace Henry Wallace, history would have taken a very different path.
Do you understand how little that narrows it down?
I remember once I had an interview and they told me the number of sick days and I was so confused lol. How could you possibly determine the number of times I will be sick before it happens.
If I'm sick I'm not coming I don't care what number you wrote down lol
My favorite interview experience was at a company that listed the expected salary on the job posting. Then when the question of my salary came up I told them I was happy with what they said they offered in the ad. It was in line with other ads for similar positions. That was not the right answer. They said that if I was actually passionate about the company that I would have made a low offer to save the department money. I remarked that I wasn't an employee yet so the department and companies wellbeing wasn't one of my priorities. I didn't get the job, although I wasn't upset I didn't.
Jesus fckn Christ, what a shithole company. Massive bullet dodged there.
You're allowed to be sick more days, they just won't pay you for it.
No big deal, the government does.
If I had a set amount of days I'm allowed to be sick, I would use every single one of them every year.
I have a set amount of sick days too unfortunately.
180 days in a year. After that the government says tough luck, work or starve.
Won't happen here either. If you are sick, your employer has to pay your regular salary for six weeks. After that, your health insurance pays Krankengeld (usually 70% of your gross salary) for up to 72 more weeks. After that, unemployment insurance covers you.
Employer only pays first week or two here, after that it's the government till you hit 6 months. Companies would go bankrupt left and right if they had to pay 6 weeks lol. My ex takes the maximum sick leave she can while still getting paid, about half a year of sick leave every year. Essentially, she gets a job, works for a week or 2, then breaks a wrist on purpose or gets a migraine. But it's not always the whole six months straight, sometimes it's a month and then she works for another week. That would reset the employer's duty to pay her sick leave and puts the company in an awkward position if it's a smaller one.
Half the year in sick days? Is this satire?
Edit: Maybe I missed a really obvious point somewhere lol.
Edit: sobstory lol
I'm part time, but if I don't miss any hours at all the entire year, I "earn" 19 hours of "vacation time" / PTO. There is no "sick time". 😂 Basically a week off per year if I blew it all at once and didn't want to make up the hours somewhere else. The pro strat is just "don't get sick" I guess /s.Wow, almost 2.5 whole work days a year?!?! Slow your roll there Rockefeller /s
Hey now it's not like I can get a doctor appointment anyway