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Wall Street Journal complains about workers using their sick days (boingboing.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Masimatutu@lemm.ee to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] SnowBunting@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Or a really bad day. Like unbearable pain, or a massive head ache. It's better if people take the time off and recover because they work better and make fewer mistakes. Nothing sucks more then to redo work.

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[–] TheLobotomist@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

I was talking about the fact that pain is not contagious ... Of course pain is a valid reason to stay at home!

My reasoning was that the risk of spreading the disease can't be the only reason for companies to let you not go to work because it only applies to infectious diseases!