And?  I have a hose.

Not a single person can give me a compelling reason to own an EV that doesn’t include 1. responsibility to our planet, 2. not going to the gas station, 3. hauling kids around...

I agree with your greater point that employees should conduct themselves with professionalism and conscientiousness. But my point is this manager is ignoring a pretty big logical flaw when they claim temp workers’ 2% rate indicates that others are abusing the system.

in the last 12 years I have called out from sick 1 time

Okay, boomer.  The number of people calling out your toxic behavior should be a sign, but you think that sign says, “All is well, ignore criticism” don’t you?

You’re confused as to the target of your rage. YOUR EMPLOYER determined the appropriate amount of days and you seem to be upset someone uses those very days.

Well, thanks for spreading your colds and flus to the rest of your co-workers. I find this idea about “I never take sick days” to be utterly ridiculous.

You’re upset at an employee using all the sick time that he’s allowed? A whopping 14 days out of the ~250 working days in a year?  

If you only want them to take 5 or 8 days a year, then only give them that amount. It is absolutely your right to set the amount of sick/vacation days employees get, but see how many employees want to come work for you. If they are allowed 14 days off a year and don’t take all of them, then are you paying them…

If they have enough management to spare for home visits and shirk their actual job, sounds like they have too many in management.

Thierig also noted that temporary workers in the same conditions only had a 2% sickness rate, suggesting that permanent workers were taking advantage of the German labor protections.

You’ve got a point there! I just wish they would start to try harder instead of making pickup trucks more and more terrifying to look at.

Yes. But have the big american car makers ever been looking further ahead than next quarter? 

There are two options:

“If I win, John Deere is going to be paying 200 percent,”

Because too many idiots can’t tell the difference between overly-bright DRL’s and the headlights that are not on. They think that because their cars are equipped with automatic headlights they have automatic headlights, completely oblivious that they have their headlight selector set to DRL, rather than Auto. I’ve…

Too many morons out there thinking their DRLs are functional as headlights and also do not know they also do not turn on their tail lights.

Seems they could just include a $10 transistor radio in every car.  Branded for the vehicle.  Would that take care of it?  I only listen to AM/FM until the Bluetooth in the car catches up to my phone.

Lets say I accept the argument that AM radio is VERY VERY important ... why does it have to be the car that it is mandated to have one? Why not every cell phone? Or every TV? Computer? Tablet?