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Calling in healthy
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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2024
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I don't understand that policy. The only times in the last 4 years that I've needed more than 2 days of sick leave was because I had covid, and I think that's a very common experience. And people with covid should absolutely not be going to the doctors office and exposing themselves to the sick and elderly. If someone has covid, you should be telling them to stay home. We're currently in the middle of a worldwide pandemic.
When I call my doctor and tell them I have covid, I get a doctor's note sent to me/my employer automatically without having to expose anyone
Why don't you cut out the middleman, avoid wasting your doctor's time when there are sick people who can actually be treated, and call your work directly? This corporate beaurocracy is ridiculous, there's no point getting doctors notes for these things.
It's relatively reasonable to expect a person to lie, it's a bit less reasonable to expect two people to lie, it's even less reasonable to expect someone to lie in a professional context where their livelihood depends on them not being discovered to be lying.
It makes a certain sense when you look at it that way from an employer's perspective.
Of course, like you probably understand, it doesn't make any sense after all, because in the end if you go to a doctor and lie about being sick (symptoms), the doctor is neither lying nor professionally liable and the whole thing is just an additional hurdle to go through.
But that hurdle is also part of the point to reduce the convenience of lying. And I'm absolutely sure that this additional hurdle has prevented someone somewhere from calling in sick while they aren't.
Again of course, that likely hasn't resulted in more work being done, because obviously the employee had a reason to lie about being sick. But whatever, I'll stop now.