My previous employer (private manufacturing with old-school people) instructed us on the proper use of a sick day.
"If you are physically able to use your phone to call in a sick day, you are able to come to work".
I think that’s not great either. I’ve probably called in sick maybe three times in five years, and I could call someone sure but I was in bed with a high fever and feeling spaced out from it.
if I feel gross but able to sit and deal with stuff I’ll work from home. But it doesn’t do anyone any good to be sat in an office spreading things that will take half the office out. I also find if I have a fever I’m useless mentally, and I dont like making dumb mistakes at work. A job that’s physically responsible for machinery or safety you don’t want someone with a baked brain on deck.
There is a point where just taking two days to lie in bed and get over it is better long term than struggling in, being useless , making stupid mistakes because you can’t think straight and infecting half the office. I actually think this is one decent thing to come out of Covid - the idea that you shouldn’t be in work if you’re hacking germs all over everyone. You see it at schools and nursery too - kids get sent in when they should be home and end up infecting the entire class. Sucks. Going about with a cold or the sniffles is no big deal but vomiting or flu or fevers, stay home
And everyone knows who is taking the piss, but I guess if you’ve got an entire department taking the piss , that window shifts a bit. I’ve worked with people like like too and it is annoying. That’s poor management though, everyone knows who is doing the work and yeah it is 80:20 e ett where I’ve worked
Absolutely. It’s shifting the idea of the thing into a physical structure. So democracy is not longer a process with checks and balances but ‘the opinions of the good guy’ which is of course their side. And for science it’s been the same. It’s no longer a process of questioning, challenge, evidence gathering, synthesis, theory, repeat. It’s now ‘what the people in charge say it is’ I.e. dogma.
It’s not just an authoritarian boot, but it seems to me like it’s an ossification, a degeneration of great leadership and of society in general. It’s almost like a cargo cult, and I see it as a symptom of our societal decline. We don’t have any more Jeffersons or newtons, so we just go through the motions and hope the results fall out the sky like some retarded tribe building runways out of straw and hoping for Cargo.
The more you can clean house and reinvigorate, the better chance we have of surviving a bit longer as a functional empire
