abcnews.go.com — The National Labor Committee published a report Tuesday bashing Walmart's sick leave policy, which it said "gives workers demerits and deducts pay for staying home when they are sick or to care for a sick child."
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oea420Nov 9, 2009
this is how almost all low level jobs are.Yeah, once you get into an office where everyone is buddy-buddy and you can e-mail in that you're going to "work from home" today because you have a touch of the cold... you tend to look at how people are treated at jobs like wal-mart and go "MY GOSH!" but in reality, a good majority of entry-level retail etc (read: teenagers and uneducated) jobs are very low to zero tolerance on tardiness and being absent.It sucks, yeah.. but there's 50 other mouth breathers behind you ready to work double the hours as you for half the pay, so buck up or get educated.
oea420Nov 9, 2009
Winco Foods is employee owned and sells the cheapest foods I can find.. great job, great benefits, etc.Retail jobs are f**king terrible for a reason many have pointed out before me..The overworked assh**e managers have a pile of applications and the job is easy to do and easy to train for... why keep seasoned staff who obviously want more compensation for their competence.. just hire new monkeys and train them at the lowest wage possible.It's a cycle in retail stores.. been working retail while I study to be a paramedic...(medics out there don't laugh.. haha... i know the pay and the work, just what I want to do :P)
deruthvenNov 9, 2009
Hey, I work for Garda Security, the company that runs Canadian screening at airports. They have an attendance bonus and if you miss an hour of work and can't make it up because of illness, you miss the bonus - no matter the reason. Even there, the pay is low enough that if some officers miss the bonus they can't afford either their groceries or their rent that month. So, guess what, they will be at work sick, spreading whatever viruses to the traveling public.
restlessmouseNov 9, 2009
Dugg for your aunt Fanny's petunia patch.
endisnigheNov 15, 2009
Five years to the day on my last job. Missed work 7 times.People that miss more than 3 times a year, I would let them go.Boo hoo. Cry me a river.Want to impress a boss, don't miss work and increase productivity. Their are thousands of people to fill the just want a job title.
izultJan 23, 2010
you're an employee not a slave and there's a HUGE difference between missing work because you're legitimately sick/emergency happened, and missing work because you want to f**k off all day. That you can't tell a difference between the two is disgusting in and of itself. If your work is your whole world, life, and reason for living, you're a sad example of a human being. People get sick. It's a fact of life. Life happens. Not everyone is lucky enough to have such an uneventful boring life that they never miss work more than 7 days in 5 years of working.