Comment on Tesla workers in Germany complain about home visits from their bosses
RQG@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thierig also pointed out that sick leave tended to increase on Fridays and late shifts. “That is not an indicator of bad working conditions because the working conditions are the same on all working days and across all shifts. It suggests that the German social system is being exploited to some extent,” he said.
How bad of a manager can you be to not understand this? When your sick leave is more than three times as high as the automotive average, then your working conditions are so bad people are getting sick. Being too exhausted to work or unable to take another day of horrid working conditions at the end of the week is a symptom of that. Not being able to make it through a late shift for health reasons is not abusing the Healthcare system. That is what it’s for. Stop treating your people bad and they will be healthier and come to work. How hard is that to understand?
How bad of a manager can you be to not understand this?
It’s a factory owned by Musk, so power tripping, being abusive and borderline illegal behavior is baked into the business model, probably including a furious Musk visiting from time to time to shout at management he wants results by tomorrow and does not want to hear any excuses. And that’s how shit flows downstream and pressure is put onto the line workers, and the good managers shut up and find another employer to work for.
Typical narcissist fault avoidance behavior.
What’s also important is, even though you may seem healthy you can be sick. So your manager is obviously not able to tell that you’re sick. German law say that when you are sick it is forbidden to do anything that prevents or interrupt the healing process. This also means, that when you get diagnosed as sick for mental reasons you’re allowed to go to the park or go to the amusement park because doing stuff that makes fun is actually quite helpful for this.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Dude has obviously never worked so hard that his energy for the week is drained on friday.