Comment on Anon is sick

corroded@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• odium@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  US Federal law does not require sick leave.

  Some people need the money.

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  • TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As someone that has to go into work sick all the time, God I wish sick pay was required. I wanna be a decent person and try not to get people sick. But at the same time I live paycheck to paycheck and if I miss too much work oops now I’m fucked.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Greatest country in the world”

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    • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      " . . . in which to be an Oligarch."

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      • odium@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’d say south Korea has us beat rn. But we won’t back down, we’ll keep fighting for that gold.

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  • theacharnian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Get better federal laws then.

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• TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sorry but I’m not missing rent, going further into debt, or becoming homeless because I’m sick. My landlord doesn’t give a shit if I’m sick and neither does the electric company or my car insurance company. I wanna be a decent person and not get other people sick, but I’m not gonna risk losing everything because I can’t work.

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  • whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I hate to be the one to say it, but it is the people. They’re not willing to band together to fix the system. They (we) can have+eat our cake, but they just can’t fucking agree, for not even a day.

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, how dare people who are poor keep working to make sure they don’t end up homeless. Damned poor assholes expecting the world to cater to them!

  /s

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• basmati@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Then start voting far left instead of right wing. There are no federal protections for sick workers that don’t file for FMLA, FMLA requires approval and is unpaid, and bills don’t get paused when you’re sick.

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• cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you’re sick with something contagious, then I don’t care who you are, you’re a horrible excuse for a human being if you go to work.

  One thing you always have to keep in mind is, that depending on where you work someone missing means that all your coworkers have to work more to compensate. One example would be if you work on a farm. The animals don’t care if you’re sick. They are hungry. Depending in the time of the year and how many people work there someone being home means that the rest has to compensate you which results in a lot of stress and possibly more mistakes. The work doesn’t go away just because you go home. Sometimes stuff has to be done right now.

  However, if you are allowed sickdays and don’t work in an industry where someone missing means extra work for everyone, you’re right.

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