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[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago

The sooner OP realizes life treats good looking people better than normies the sooner he learns to work on his own strengths and self-confidence and get out of the self pity, the better life will become for him.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Be me, working chad

See co-worker come in and tell people he's sick

Disgusting co-workers all leave him alone

Get idea

Tell people I'm sick

Smelly Nelly still wants to grope me

Gaaaaah what must I do to escape these germ bags!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 21 hours ago

Literally everyone acts like im some sort of evil disgusting monster and stays as far away from me as possible

The bit anon left out is that this is how everyone treats him everyday, sick or not.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't go to fucken work sick anon. Even if you're American.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago

For many easier said than done unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

I don't think it'd be ready to take the financial hit over someone else maybe getting my cold.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You wanna know what makes that other guy a Chad? The fact that he doesn't need to focus on who cares about him when he's sick. Pity parties are a huge turn off for the majority of people. I think it's a subconscious reaction that most people have regardless of who the other person is. Unless you are already close to someone, whether family or a close friend, you shouldn't expect them to feel bad for you. I wouldn't expect the clerk at a gas station to feel bad for me if I came in late to pick up some NyQuil. But we'll definitely shoot the shit about how being sick fucking blows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I would die of embarrassment if someone pitied me while picking up otc medicine. Like there’s the “ope you look rough, good luck” level, but anymore and it’s just uncomfortable. All I want my employer to say when I’m sick is “do you want to work from home”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Chad spotter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

I think you should get a pass for pity parties with your own family. I get really sick like once every five years. By Zeus, I want to be coddled when I'm really sick!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago

Didn't follow the 2 rules

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

Going to work sick is bad, either do it to make everyone else also sick (based) or stay at home

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Anon gotta chill out and be more like Chad. Chad is sick!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

And apparently everybody is down with his sickness

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Oh, ah-ah-ah-ah!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

If you're sick with something that's non-transmissible, then it's on you to decide if you want to go to work or not.

If you're sick with something contagious, then I don't care who you are, you're a horrible excuse for a human being if you go to work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, how dare people who are poor keep working to make sure they don't end up homeless. Damned poor assholes expecting the world to cater to them!

/s

[–] odium 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

US Federal law does not require sick leave.

Some people need the money.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

USA is third world country with the power of a first world country

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

"Greatest country in the world"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

" . . . in which to be an Oligarch."

[–] odium 2 points 16 hours ago

I'd say south Korea has us beat rn. But we won't back down, we'll keep fighting for that gold.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

As someone that has to go into work sick all the time, God I wish sick pay was required. I wanna be a decent person and try not to get people sick. But at the same time I live paycheck to paycheck and if I miss too much work oops now I'm fucked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

Get better federal laws then.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sorry but I'm not missing rent, going further into debt, or becoming homeless because I'm sick. My landlord doesn't give a shit if I'm sick and neither does the electric company or my car insurance company. I wanna be a decent person and not get other people sick, but I'm not gonna risk losing everything because I can't work. It's the system that's fucked, not the people. They would love to stay home but they can't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I hate to be the one to say it, but it is the people. They're not willing to band together to fix the system. They (we) can have+eat our cake, but they just can't fucking agree, for not even a day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

If you're sick with something contagious, then I don't care who you are, you're a horrible excuse for a human being if you go to work.

One thing you always have to keep in mind is, that depending on where you work someone missing means that all your coworkers have to work more to compensate. One example would be if you work on a farm. The animals don't care if you're sick. They are hungry. Depending in the time of the year and how many people work there someone being home means that the rest has to compensate you which results in a lot of stress and possibly more mistakes. The work doesn't go away just because you go home. Sometimes stuff has to be done right now.

However, if you are allowed sickdays and don't work in an industry where someone missing means extra work for everyone, you're right.