Got a talking to for taking off 2 days when I was sick
This past week I had a migraine, took off a day and turned out being sick with headache, sore throat, full body aches, congestion, etc. I went to work the next day anyway, and felt terrible. Took off the day after that because I just couldn't move everything hurt do bad. This brought me to 8 attendance "occurances". Our store policy is you get 12 "occurances" in a year and you're fired. 13
So if you're sick for a week in January you're only allowed to be sick (or call out at all) 5 more days the whole year. According to my boss my state (in the US) doesn't allow sick days and pto doesn't cover it. He was saying "I keep asking if there's anything I can do to help and you keep saying no" and I mean I appreciate the sentiment because I know he doesn't want to fire me but are you a doctor?? If I can't even look at my phone on the lowest brightness because my head hurts so bad there's nothing he can do to help me and I'm not coming into work. I had a coworker crying in the breakroom because her throat hurt so bad but she didn't want an occurance so she didn't leave. Had another coworker come in with pneumonia. It's bullshit. 13