Usually no pay.

A zeppelin?

If you get the joke...then why did you bother with a serious response?

No, it's not about using paid sick time. My last call center job came with 6 sick days per year and 15 days of PTO. if you called in sick, that was an occurrence on your record. If you had 3 occurrences in a ROLLING 12 MONTH PERIOD you got onto a verbal warning. A 4th went to written, a 5th to final and then…

This idea works as long as the traffic is moderate and the routes are straight.

That thing straddles the line between "good idea" and "bat boinking crazy" then proceeded to drive over both.

When I worked in restaurants (well before jobs were getting scarce) there was a saying - you get one sick day ever, on the second one you’re almost guaranteed to be fired. Also you were never sick on friday or saturday. Sick friday was your last day of work at that place.

You are looking at it from the wrong perspective if you want to understand the progressive view point on this. Sorry for the long post, I kept writing till I explained it all and it became a doozy.

Thanks you just proved my point. They take shitty jobs because otherwise you go around and complain their on unemployment looking for better ones.

The stories I’ve heard are mainly from kitchen staff.

It would be but that’s not how it works. There are no sick days, you can’t use your vacation days; you can call off like twice and beyond that you’re penalized. In a business where you interact with the public all day.

Anything dealing with volume really, as one reply mentions restaurants, I know call centers and the like generally frown upon people not coming in for scheduled shifts (even if it is because you called and said you were sick), LOTS of low wage jobs in general really and the reality is that many people spend their…

Lots of places don’t have sick time and penalize you if you call in more than a couple times in a year. AT&T, for example.

If people could get better jobs they’d have already done it. Do you think people want to work shitty jobs?

Restaurant work is one I’ve heard horror stories about. It doesn’t always happen, but it happens with higher frequency than in other jobs.

I have worked for an industry in the past that would make it very hard and costly for employees to take time off from work. I was in management, and we were instructed to make it difficult for people to take time off, even though it was part of their benefits package.

only a few states mandate paid sick time and plenty of companies in the states that don’t have no sick time for certain groups of employees, such as people working part time or in certain roles. Also, many companies have cultures where being out of the office for any reason (being sick included) is frowned upon…

YEs you do

Depends on your job, but yes, a lot of people are punished or even fired for taking time off for being sick, especially in minimum wage positions.

In this country, you get punished for being sick and taking time off. So this will sit well with corporate America.