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[Sillution]

"Oh, you want to call out sick? I need you to find someone to cover your shift first."

 

[SafeinSound]

Why do people still eat at this shit hole? Wait...some poster on here will go and get a free burrito because of this. Worth it.

 

[bigDdestruction]

I used to work at Walgreens photo center and was sick as a dog, the customers were commenting how sick I looked and I even asked the store manager if I could leave early. I was maybe 5 hours into my 8 hour shift and it wasn't busy and there was someone to cover me and he still told me no. I got even more sick that night and called out the next day. Went to the doctor and brought in a doctors note to make that asshole feel shitty.

 

[Media]

Saying you offer paid sick days and actually giving them are two different things. Calling in sick in most low paying American jobs is dancing on the edge of the "being fired" cliff. That's why Americans don't take sick days.

 

[ViviOggi]

Letting companies rule over sick leave in the year of our lord 2017, amazing

 

[LogicAirForce]

I don't work at a fast food place, but the company I work for has a point system for sick days. Every day you call in gets you 1 point, 3 points and you are fired. the points stay on record for 6 months. Atleast 3 people have been fired cause they got the flu or something and had to call in for a week. Even before they started this, if you called in even once it would count against you on your review and you wouldn't get a raise that year.

Companies in America have been treating their employees like shit for decades, I'm glad its finally coming back to bite them in the ass.

 

[Piggus]

Yup, I accrued hundreds of supposed sick hours at my old job but the fastest way to be on a managers shit list for life is to take a sick day.

This kind of thing baffles me. My company encourages everyone to use sick/vacation time. The last two years I've taken a three-week vacation each year to travel. If a manager scoffs at time off, they're a shitty manager.

I don't work at a fast food place, but the company I work for has a point system for sick days. Every day you call in gets you 1 point, 3 points and you are fired. the points stay on record for 6 months. Atleast 3 people have been fired cause they got the flu or something and had to call in for a week. Even before they started this, if you called in even once it would count against you on your review and you wouldn't get a raise that year.

Companies in America have been treating their employees like shit for decades, I'm glad its finally coming back to bite them in the ass.

Fuck that. I would never work with those kind of "terms."

 

[Heroman]

"Oh, you want to call out sick? I need you to find someone to cover your shift first."

That basically what they told us if you wanted to call out at Chipotle

 

[Sillution]

That basically what they told us if you wanted to call out at Chipotle

Yes, it's happened to me too, though not at chipotle.

 

[TheOfficeMut]

"Oh, you want to call out sick? I need you to find someone to cover your shift first."

Can confirm having worked in two restaurants. Makes no sense since if I can't find someone to cover me, I am not magically better to come in, and on top of that, it's the management's responsibility to find someone to cover me since I'm fucking sick. By virtue of trying to find someone while I am calling out sick, I am working while sick. The fuck is that.

 

[Fbh]

I've never been to Chipotle because they don't exist where I live. But from everything I've read about them online it just doesn't sound like the type of company where an employee calls in sick and the manager is like "hey, no problem, hope you feel better soon!!"

 

[Tigress]

Saying you offer paid sick days and actually giving them are two different things. Calling in sick in most low paying American jobs is dancing on the edge of the "being fired" cliff. That's why Americans don't take sick days.

I don't get paid sick days but at least my managers are pretty cool about it even though they usually can't find some one to take the hours. But, that's just cause my store I work at is good about it, I'm sure it varies depending on the managers in each store (corporate company).

It's one reason I am loathe to change jobs even though there are places that have better hiring policies (better benefits and more hours) because I still take a chance on how good the managers are in the store to their employees (I like my managers and coworkers and I think we have a good team even if I think corporate follows the walmart philosophy of how to treat employees. Who you work directly with probably affects you more than corporate policies unless those policies really push people into being shitty).

 

[Miles Quaritch]

It doesn't but when you got bills to pay and a risk of getting fired for the audacity of getting sick, well... yeah. Employees gotta do what they gotta do.

I am so glad I never had to work on a fast food restaurant or any services type job growing up. I'd have lost my shit and been escorted from the premises by the cops.

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

I don't work at a fast food place, but the company I work for has a point system for sick days. Every day you call in gets you 1 point, 3 points and you are fired. the points stay on record for 6 months. Atleast 3 people have been fired cause they got the flu or something and had to call in for a week. Even before they started this, if you called in even once it would count against you on your review and you wouldn't get a raise that year.

Companies in America have been treating their employees like shit for decades, I'm glad its finally coming back to bite them in the ass.

Mine is 2 for being late, 3 for calling out. Two days in a row still count as the original 3 points. 12 is a verbal. Any points after is written and then suspension. If you get anything after that you're fired. That's all within a year. Being late doesn't matter if it's 30 seconds or 4 hours.

Most new people don't know about the two days in a row thing and end up calling out once and coming in the next trying to tough it out.

 

[LogicAirForce]

This kind of thing baffles me. My company encourages everyone to use sick/vacation time. The last two years I've taken a three-week vacation each year to travel. If a manager scoffs at time off, they're a shitty manager.



Fuck that. I would never work with those kind of "terms."

Yeah but if you need a job there isn't much you can do about it. Politicians should be making laws against this sort of thing, but my fellow Americans are pretty bad at voting in their best interest.