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Humans doing the hard jobs on on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted
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A real thing that happened to me as a teenager.
I had what turned out to be a dangerous walking pneumonia, for a week, but the manager at Burger King wouldn’t let me off. My breathing was very loud and ragged. I was coughing on and breathing on the food.
I wasn’t allowed to leave. I was told if i called out, I was fired.
So Im shuffling around wheezing loudly swaying with my high fever as I work drive thru by myself, and a paramedic walked in to order dinner.
He goes ballistic, My friends. He demands to see the Manager. he chews him out at the top of his lungs so the whole restaurant can here. Guys working the back came up to watch. Customers staring and thinking hard about the infectious food they were eating. Dude losing his shit about how infectious I was and all the people management had been endangering for days judging from my breathing and I needed to be home on antibiotics RIGHT NOW and the health Department was going to hear about this.
I went home. i got the week off. Didn’t even need a doctor’s note.
Getting friends management doesn’t know to do this WOULD WORK.
Same manager not letting me take my influenza home a year later despite repeated vomiting? Threw up in front of customers. Customers demanded money back and started threatening the manager with lawsuits.
I got to go home and got time off until I stopped vomitting.
GO AHEAD and THROW UP in front of Customers. THEY will Complain.
Don’t be shy.
They are supposed to let you stay home when you are sick. Stop protecting management. (Hiding how sick you are protects management). They are abusing you. Let them reap what they sow.
As I've said before, my migraines make me deathly ill. When I worked retail, my manager said, "A little headache shouldn't stop you from working. You're just lazy." Our district manager even agreed with her! So when our DM came in for a visit and I had a migraine, my speech was slurring like I was drunk, I was crawling around in the back for stock and the last straw, I puked on our DM. She asked what the hell was wrong with me. I told her I had a migraine, and she let me take a few days off to recover, and they never mentioned it again. I was shocked I didn't lose my job, but ya know what, any time I had a migraine after that and I couldn't work I always got a "Feel better and we'll see you for your next shift." Don't hide when you're sick or hurting. Show them how bad it is and let customers complain about it!
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