I feel bad for calling in sick because my department is horrifically understaffed and 1 person not showing up for work increases the workload of everyone else by about 50%. And since it’s a hospital, it’s not like we can just continue working like normal and let the company eat the profit loss; if our department is not working at 100% then innocent people’s health suffers.
I mean, every reason you said is just reasons that management should have extreme ire directed towards them. You don’t set the staff, but they DO, and they are CHOOSING to understaff you.
It is harm THEY are causing, not you.
Unfair of the company to provide this service without adequate staff. If the people requiring the service suffer because of short staff, they are suffering because of management, not the workers.
I really hate how management uses their failures to turn the screws on their employees that they often don’t pay enough.
Another part: Being gone for a week to recover means most people come back to a mountain of work because nobody could back them up because they’re all also ungodly busy.
This is always what it is for me. I don’t care so much about leaving the company short-staffed so much as it genuinely makes my life 10x harder and takes weeks for me to get myself in a stable spot again.
Or worse, they’re paid an hourly wage and have to decide between going to work sick or skipping a few meals next pay period.
Feel bad for calling in, or afraid of getting fired for calling in?
Can we please replace, “a generation of,” with just people? People have been doing that because it’s woven into the genetic fabric of our social existence. We need to find realistic ways to undo this.
The worst part is, I have no idea what generation OP is from.
This could in fact be any generation.
I just got written up at work for attendance. I asked them about it, and they said it was because I called out 5 times across 7 months.
I can call out 5 times in 7 months, or I can come in and cause 5 other people to call in five times in 7 months.
Unrelated question - what’s this sick leave for, exactly?
exactly.
it’s supposed to be paid time that you can use to make up for the hours you missed while sick. That way, your paycheck doesn’t take a hit.
I don’t give a shit. What is the company has enough staff or not, I just don’t wanna leave my coworkers picking up my slack.
I know what you mean. When I was in the service industry super loyal friends that were great to work with but that unity is only exploited by management to get shifts covered instead of staffing up. It was like an antiunion.
Speak for yourself, unless I’m getting payed well, I don’t give a fuck.
I’m paid well and still dgaf. I think I’ve taken at least a month of sick leave this year.
We’re part of the lucky few my friend. And I’m currently unemployed!
If your company celebrates good profits, but doesn’t volunteer raises that reflect that, you shouldn’t have to beg if you were part of the machine that made that profit, that should tell you all you need to know.
The fact that just doesn’t happen unless you’re in the strangest of American Workplaces demonstrates where you sit in their universe. A disposable liability. The cost of doing business. You make them multiple times more money than they pay you, and they resent and nickel and dime even what little they have to remit back to you for you to not just walk out solely so the assholes at the top can live larger than they need to. In a sad, sociopathic society where working means life and not working means being tossed into an alley to die, that means your life means absolutely nothing to them, just in case the suicide nets outside the factories where they hire third world slaves to save a dollar didn’t clue you in.
I don’t
