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Now when I was a kid I totally took tons of mental health days. My parents would let me call off school basically whenever I wanted. It really didn't help prepare me as an adult, because I never fully learned how to adapt in stressful situations.

But calling off school is literally only affecting me. The difference with calling off work is that you're affecting your coworkers. The meme seems to think it's about affecting the company/corporate entity, etc. and reeks of some zoomer anti-corporate lite, lazy e-activism. I've worked retail, service, factory, warehouse, trade, and health care jobs - to name a few types of jobs I've had.

Maybe in some retail settings - fine, you can fare alright if one person calls off last minute. If you're on an assembly line it could be a total disaster, though, if someone calls off last minute. My current job in health care it's the same exact thing, and it doesn't help that healthcare workers are the most entitled job force. My lab is 24 hours, and if someone calls off last minute that could mean tons of cross-covering duties and it could mean me or whoever else working tons of overtime - and it's horrible.

So fine - don't be afraid to call off because you have an actual life and you have issues to sort out. It's definitely your right to do so. But don't sit there and pretend it's only the company being affected by it -- and if you're doing it last minute, realize that you're probably hurting your coworkers more than your company. Where's the sense of solidarity?

This is peak CEman right here.
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Anteaterking posted...

This is peak CEman right here.

How? CE is selfish as fuck. They don't care about solidarity.
Fuck off

Damn this just might top your have a good one topic

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you got a tl;dr for this bro
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It's not really "peak CE" because CEmen are usually pretty selfish.
So seriously, both of you can fuck right off

bobbaaay posted...

How? CE is selfish as f***. They don't care about solidarity.
f*** off

You always do this thing where you pick one characteristic that you think absolves you from being just like the people you hate so much being compared to, like "I can't be a CEman, I don't fat shame!" even though you overlap in the other 90% of your personality.

"Solidarity" for your fellow workers is that when your coworker is sick you don't insist that they should have thought about how this makes your job harder. We're not talking about whether you should call in sick just to play hooky or something. When you work sick, you're risking harming yourself AND your coworkers, especially if you're using over the counter medication to "work through it".
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Anteaterking posted...

You always do this thing where you pick one characteristic that you think absolves you from being just like the people you hate so much being compared to, like "I can't be a CEman, I don't fat shame!" even though you overlap in the other 90% of your personality.

"Solidarity" for your fellow workers is that when your coworker is sick you don't insist that they should have thought about how this makes your job harder. We're not talking about whether you should call in sick just to play hooky or something. When you work sick, you're risking harming yourself AND your coworkers, especially if you're using over the counter medication to "work through it".

If you're actually sick and you're working in food service or health care, then yes - definitely call off, even if it's last minute.
I'm referring to calling off last minute without an actual, contagious illness

And when I work I DO always consider the workload and the level of comfort of my coworkers.
I always do stuff out of courteousness to make their jobs easier. I always pick up shifts other people won't. I always try to help whenever someone is newer to a position.
And if I call off I DO think about my coworkers and it IS a serious consideration of whether or not I do. I've paid $40 for an uber when my car died just so I didn't have to call off work.

bobbaaay posted...

If you're actually sick and you're working in food service or health care, then yes - definitely call off, even if it's last minute.
I'm referring to calling off last minute without an actual, contagious illness

I'm not just talking about contagions though. Working while lethargic, distracted, etc. from illness also causes loss of productivity (and in more serious roles can cause otherwise avoidable accidents). Being at 50% productivity for three days is worse than missing a day of work to get better.
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Fuck that, call out sick. No one wants to work with a sick coworker, and a coworker calling off sick for one or two days is less of a disaster than one who gets everyone sick. A sick coworker is going to be fatigued, unfocused, and unproductive anyways.

You guys are talking in the extremes right now. I said anything contagious.
As for lethargic - there's definitely a fine line with that. I actually had my worst day at work when I drove 6 hours the previous day and barely slept. I made multiple mistakes and it totally fucked up my file. So I can get behind that within reason.
Distracted? It probably depends, too. Again - probably a fine line.

bobbaaay posted...

Maybe in some retail settings - fine, you can fare alright if one person calls off last minute.

It can totally fuck shit up if a company is short staffed. One of my first jobs was a cashier at a place that was and lots of hires were fellow teens that liked to call out just to do it. Managers would have to step in just so lines wouldn't get insanely long

I've definitely come to work while sick on a super busy day so my colleagues didn't have to cover me.
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I feel you, TC. I only call off if I'm seriously sick. The reason being is not because I feel like I need to be here, but because the person that I would normally relieve is now stuck working up to 4 hours extra that they shouldn't have to. People have shit to do and have a schedule outside of work and i don't want my coworker to have to freak out about picking up kids from school or finding a baby sitter last second or ehatnhaventou just because I felt like I needed a little me time.
Should the company hire more people to avoid this type of situation? Absolutely. But until then, if I can make it to work, I'll come to work.
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Like the more we talk about this, the more it sounds like you're just pissed that the people you work with take sick leave, instead of being criticizing who you work for that one person needing to call out sick means everyone's day is ruined.

So much for solidarity.
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Anteaterking posted...

Like the more we talk about this, the more it sounds like you're just pissed that the people you work with take sick leave, instead of being criticizing who you work for that one person needing to call out sick means everyone's day is ruined.

So much for solidarity.

It's not a personal thing here, so don't assume it is. I'm talking ideology here, and if you don't need to call off and do - then yeah, that's definitely not promoting solidarity.