Pro tip, your hot water tap probably gets to like 120, you can mix it with cold to get 100-103 pretty easily.
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Pro tip: any company that requires you to prove that you are “sick” in order to get a day off is a shitty company. Find another job.
Yea we can call out 8x before getting fired. It doesn't matter the reason. I still have people calling in leaving messages with exaggerated symptoms in their voice and it's like.. Bruh I don't give a shit just don't do it 7 more times so I don't have to fire you.
Just curious, is it 8x for the entire length someone is working there, or just 8x per year or something? Cause it'd seem kinda crazy to fire someone after 8 years for calling in once a year lol. Now that I think about it this is probably a stupid question
rolls off after a year
What I'm wondering is if being out sick for 2 or more days takes up your other call outs, or if it counts as one.
consecutive days count as 1
Exactly. I just text my office manager that I’m sick and will see them in a couple days, and they take care of the rest. Fuck companies that make you get a notarized letter from the CDC or whatever bullshit.
Nah, better just send a pic with 120°
!Bonus points if that's °C!<
Reply would be: ”You dead yet?”
Just don't reply till the next work day.
Pro tip even just cracking 100 isn't really a fever, do something like 101.2 that's a fever, but not high enough to seek medical attention just yet, so there's no having to go to the hospital. A fever of 103 is something you need to checked out urgently to immediately
It depends on the person. One of my kids goes to 104 every time she gets a fever. It scared the crap out of me the first time but now I know to expect it.
That is absolutely true, but for guidelines sake, that's what we're going for here
I'm on the other end. I'm usually between 95 and 97. 101 = I need immediate attention and it's hard to get medical professionals to take me seriously. They ignore me till someone makes a scene and then freak out once they measure my blood pressure. C'est la vie 🤷♂️
It's dystopian that so many people don't have unlimited sick time.
Disagree. Any form of "unlimited" time off gets heavy scrutiny. I'd rather have a generous PTO policy than an unlimited one.
That said, it's distopian that anyone needs to send proof of being sick. That's a symptom of a really toxic work culture.
Maybe I've been lucky but in 10+ years of unlimited sick time, I've never been questioned about sick days.
Vacation time I think needs a minimum if you're going to do unlimited, otherwise people aren't sure what to take and may take less.
The worst policy I ever worked under was "limited sick days. Unused sick days get paid out as a bonus at the end of the year". So everyone came in sick to get that sweet two weeks pay at the end of the year.
Yeah, that's awful.
I much prefer a fixed amount of PTO to "unlimited" mostly because the culture of companies that offer unlimited seem to discourage actually taking time off, which can lead to burnout. Obviously every company is different, but I'd much rather have a decent fixed amount of time off vs something where I'd feel guilty for abusing it. I currently get like 3.5 weeks, which is pretty decent for my field, and I'll get a bump to 4.5 weeks in a couple years.
I've heard tale of places that add the unused sick days to your retirement
Right. Those with unlimited PTO take off only what they need, and not the strict number they get. Those with a set amount end up finding time to take off. It’s why companies moved over to “unlimited”. That, and the fact they don’t need to pay out your vacation when you leave.
No, they usually avoid taking time off even if they need it, because they get guilted into thinking it wouldn't be approved or something, or that they'd be passed up for a promotion. Employers do it because it's better for the company, not for the individual.
Unlimited? F'realz?
Don't know where you live but in the Netherlands you just stay home when you're sick, that's it.
I believe after two weeks you need a doctor's note.
And then you'll get paid for up to two years of illness, after which you can apply with the government for further assistance.
So not unlimited, but quite long still.
In the US if you're sick they can just fire you the first day you're gone. It's great, I hardly know what to do with all this freedumb I have.
Most jobs aren't going to do that. They can technically fire you whenever they want, since it's considered at-will employment, but the cost of finding and training a replacement usually lends some stability, even for low-level jobs.
I understand U.S. system is VERY VERY fucked up, three day sick leave is no where close to enough; but I am quite confused of why people only need a doctor's note after two weeks.
It seems quite reasonable if one haven't recovered for a week (or been very sick for more than 3 days), it is best for them to see a doctor, especially with free health care in the Netherlands.
It's completely dependent on the job, and that's a problem. Good jobs offer ample time off, bad jobs offer the bare legal minimum. Unfortunately the legal minimum is really oppressive and causes a lot of people to go into work sick, getting everyone else sick in the process.
Edit: Sorry about this comment, it's pretty useless, I just had time to kill waiting for my next flight. Reads like a fictional dystopian exaggeration, but it was my reality and continues to be reality for many others, unfortunately. TL;DR - anecdotes outlining how US working conditions can be brutally unforgiving, especially in the restaurant industry.
There's 3 days sick leave in the US? When I was still living there, I got my 2nd write-up (3rd = termination) for not coming to work because I needed to go to the ER for an overdose. Side note: caffeine powder is way cheaper than coffee, but if you're too broke to afford coffee, you're too broke to afford a milligram scale reliable and accurate enough to prevent accidental overdose.
After breaking my 30+ day streak of 12-15 hour shifts (about 90-100 hours per week, was normally only 85 or so), I came back to work the next day with a doctor's note, and my boss said "I don't think you're lying to me..." followed by 10 very long seconds of suspicious squinting and staring me down, "... But yesterday was Saturday, so I'm going to need to write you up". You see, it was explicitly forbidden to call in sick on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
Don't let your loved ones work in restaurants, ESPECIALLY in the kitchen. I unfortunately couldn't quit because I had no days off to apply for other jobs, and missing out on even one day of pay was the difference between covering bills AND food, or having to steal food to avoid homelessness. I legitimately considered choosing to be homeless temporarily as a way out, because I pretty much lived at work anyway, I only ever slept at the apartment. Granted, my situation was particularly bad because they were actually stealing 50% of my earned wages (~$8300 over 10 months, which I eventually got back after threats of litigation).
I googled the law for several supposedly "progressive" state:
- MA and OR provide earned sick leave, of 1 hour leave pre 30 hour worked. basically, one day off per month worked in the current year. However the law requires no more than 40 hour of leave per year for whatever reason?!
- NY guarantees 40 - 56hr of sick leave for most employees
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Here's the fun part: you only get that if you work somewhere that obeys labor laws! Many (most?) restaurants pretend like they don't exist at all. I've worked at a place that would occasionally (3 times in the year and a half I worked there) fire a chef just after the pay-cycle without saying a word, so the chef works the next 2 weeks up until payday, asks "where's my paycheck" and the boss says "you don't get one you were fired last week".
On a chef's salary, that has potential to put them and their family on the streets.
The fun part is also with "at-will" employment (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment), which is effective for most employment in the U.S.
You can have as much TPO and sick day as you want, yet nothing stops your employer firing you because you used your TPO or sick day.
So basically they are meaningless...
I think the idea is that you're actually sick for a week, not "sick". And can't show them anything until you're better. If you've ever been that sick, you know you can barely get out of bed to go to the bathroom.
I've had unlimited sick time via "if you're not well stay home" for like ten years. One job had limited vacation time (15 days to start that went up to 25 as you gained seniority), but the others has unlimited vacation time, too.
These have been small/medium startups.
Very much unrelated to this post
I thought it read 100°C lol
Lol "Sorry, I can't come in today, I'm boiling into vapour."
See u in 10.
Does this mean they have a 10 minute commute? I'm kinda jealous lol.
I had a 10 minute commute at my last job. It was definitely great, but it was also only reachable by car because almost the entire 10 minutes was highway driving and my job was in an industrial park that was only accessible from the highway, so it was car or nothing.
I used to live right across the street from my work. In fact, my apartment was closer than the parking lot, so I would be sitting on my couch before most of my coworkers even made it to their cars.
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I still don't know how I did it, but when I'd fake sick as a child my mom would leave the room for a bit while the thermometer stuck in my mouth, beneath my tongue. I would then breath the "hottest" air I could muster repeatedly from my lungs, believing that it would bring the thermometer up to fever levels... and it always worked.
Did I just have a really chill mom who recognized when I didn't want to go? Or could this absurd method actually trick a traditional thermometer into going up?
Maybe it's best that I don't know, as I have a daughter now and it's important to have her back when she needs needs a fuckin' day.
Maybe got enough convective heat transfer