• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thanks to the COVID infection I already had and some other illness, I have no sick time left. So if I get it again, I have to take the entire time I’m sick unpaid.

    Now I’m lucky in that I can work from home and would do so while able but contagious, and we can afford me to take a few days off unpaid, but plenty of people are in my situation and can’t afford a single unpaid day.

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      1 year ago

      Is this a US thing I’m too European to relate to?

      That’s horrible. Social darwinism at its finest.