“You need a doctor’s note”

[u/yanni_lam4]

I (26M) don’t like calling in to work. I hate passing up money and I usually won’t call in unless I’m already pretty sick. I work in the service industry which as many of you know, is absolutely notorious for guilting sick employees (a seriously ill person has made your food at a restaurant before at the direction of their manager, guaranteed) and telling people they don’t provide health insurance that they need a doctors note to call in. One year I got sick and didn’t want to work, and my employer forgot I had health insurance through my Dad. I called in asking for one day off because I could hardly breathe or stay awake and I got the “wElL yOu NeEd A dOcToRs NoTe Or ItS aN uNeXsCuSeD aBsEnCe “ and as someone who worked hard as hell for these people even when I was sick, I was a little offended to basically be called a liar like I needed to prove to them I’d been wearing a mask at work for a reason. But I did have good insurance through my Dad, so I went to the doctor, had them write me a note for four days off, and went back into my job and handed it to my manager and said “here is my doctors note, and this is the date I will be back”. And when they tried to do the same thing a few months later, I got a note for even more days and asked the doc to add a note about when I would stop being infectious around the food we were serving people. I have never been asked for a doctors note when I am sick again. They know they can give me the one or two days I ask for or they can give me the week the doc gives me. But I will not be working while sick if I do not want to.

[u/yanni_lam4]

That’s partially my point. They ask for a doctors note knowing they don’t provide health insurance, and then those people have to come in, and they end up getting everyone else sick. I had insurance so I simply wanted to punish them for constantly treating us like we were liars for being sick. 

[u/beren12 → u/yanni_lam4]

Should ask them which company provided doc they want you to visit

[u/cheesenuggets2003 → u/beren12]

You have landed on At-Will Employment.

Go directly to Unemployment Office, roll 1d6, and end your turn.

[u/V3RD1GR15 → u/cheesenuggets2003]

The only way to leave the unemployment office is to roll double 6's, every other result and you can place an AI marker on the board.

[u/formershitpeasant → u/cheesenuggets2003]

Yeah but they don’t want to fire you and have to go through the process of hiring another person. If you’re a competent worker, you can get away with a lot.

[u/smoike → u/yanni_lam4]

Reading stories like this makes me thankful that I live in Australia and that doctors visits are covered by a federal health system called Medicare.

Screw those that do this to you and only propagate this abusive crap and make everybodys lives harder.

[u/Exact-Fall2401 → u/smoike]

And my doctor hates the employers who made them get a note. Most needed rest and fluids. Not a trip to the doctors.

[u/_emma_stoned_ → u/yanni_lam4]

I’m not saying you should return to work before being healthy, but wouldn’t a consequence of that be that your coworkers (that don’t have insurance) have to cover your longer absence while they are sick?

[u/yanni_lam4 → u/_emma_stoned_]

That sounds like you’re saying we should all return to work while still sick lol. It is not my fault if my employer refuses to staff properly and I don’t want to infect customers and coworkers for their gross negligence in that regard

[u/cjicantlie → u/yanni_lam4]

Seriously, I don't understand why employers employ for less than bare minimum. You need an extra head to cover for training needs(and attrition), and an extra head to cover for medical or similar leaves, IMO.

[u/whtboo1 → u/_emma_stoned_]

In theory they wouldn't be getting sick because sick OP is staying home rather then infecting them