There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.

There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.

  • renrenPDX@lemmy.world
    11·
    16 days ago

    Yeah my German friend tells me of his coworker that he hasn’t seen since early this year, out sick. Can’t be fired, and no replacement. Or take a week off and be sick the following week. It’s not without its drawbacks but significantly better than what we have here.

    Here, we tend to be afraid to take sick days.

    • Kage520@lemmy.world
      11·
      16 days ago

      I’ve been with the same company almost 20 years, and I’m that time have taken so little time off, I have accumulated 75 days. But I just had a child a couple years ago, and this year I took 8 days off throughout the year, since she brought home so many sicknesses. One of those required 3 days off, and I actually got a doctor’s note because it was 3 consecutive days and that’s the policy.

      It still came up in my review. I basically got a “barely passing” score with “needs to be more reliable”.