If someone's bills are so much of a problem that you can't afford to take a day or two off whenever you get sick without pay your employer is either not paying you enough for a living wage in the first place, you're horrendously bad with money, or both.
Um, yes, there are an awful lot of employers (in the US and elsewhere) that aren't paying people enough. This is not news to anyone, or at least shouldn't be.
Well, I don't know about you but I'd much much rather have whenever I was sick the sick days I took were unpaid if it meant I was being paid more in general.
That's a problem with the system and has nothing to do with paid sick days or the lack thereof. In fact, minimum wage is supposed to exist precisely to force employers to pay their employees enough to live off of. Not that it actually does but it's supposed to be the point of it.
Have we gone so backwards that you're unironically arguing that people don't deserve sick days? What level of Capitalism is this!?!?
Well, if you ever decide to contract with a firm, that would be within your rights to negotiate. I'm sure most of them would be happy to omit or put the minimum legally required amount of paid sick leave on your contract.
No, the point is people deserve sick days. They just don't deserve money for not showing up and doing work. There's a vast vast gulf between unpaid sick days and "people don't get sick days at all." If I work a typical 9 to 5 job and get paid 15 bucks an hour, I would fully expect that if for any reason I didn't show up one day I would lose out on the $120 bucks I would've earned that day.
But then you need that $120 to buy groceries that month, so you drag your sick ass to work because you can't afford to call out, thus defeating the purpose of sick days.
Hmm... let's see... If I work 5 days a week every month, that's 2400 dollars a month. I think most people could afford to take one or two days off every once in a while and not be struggling to pay for food.
...I have seen boot licking before but JFC, you're just absolutely porn star worthy deep throating the boot with this take, aren't you?
That’s $2,400 before taxes. Federal, State and Social Security are pulled from your pay before you get your check. And if you have health insurance through your workplace then that gets pulled too.
At least this weirdo is just hurting herself by believing that if she saves the company money giving herself food poisoning eating horribly prepared chicken, senpai-company will notice her
Some replies on the tweet maintain it’s a joke account. But Poe’s Law and all that.
People deserve 1000 dollars a week universal income just for agreeing to exist in this nightmare world, let alone compensation for participating in it.
It is literally getting paid for doing nothing. If I'd known that was an option I'd be set for life before I graduated high school.
