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Maybe getting disqualified from monthly performance incentives because of sick days could make sense, to avoid giving money to those people who use them over and over as an excuse to avoid work (where I come from, Italy, this happens a lot).
...But for every holy living fuck's sake, disqualifying people over TWO sick days is bullshit. Golden, stinking bullshit, at least in my personal opinion. -
@jAsE of course. I'm talking about the choice in itself to disqualify people that way, and the country I come from only matters to (maybe) give a tiny background to why I see things that way. More than anything, though, I was not even taking into consideration the fact that these kind of changes should be done only after explaining them and talking to the people they'll affect. They also sound a little bit shady to me, in the sense that I don't think they are fully legal but... I know nothing or close to nothing about laws.
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@jAsE
It does because in some countries you are entitled to 10 days off. While in others 24 by LAW. Others give you even 40. There are also countries where people think that 12 hour work day is normal. This needs to be clarified before commenting on such a thing.
Furthermore, I was told the following story:
A guy working in country X tells his boss he wants more than 10 days off for a vacation. His boss tells him that he won't get paid. He says fine, I still want them. His boss asks him again. This guy says yes. His boss still cannot process what happened. -
@Niteraleph For some reason I pictured the literal meaning of your words into my head... And it made me laugh a little more than it should have. lol.
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@Alice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So that coworker of mine who got promoted to manager keeps continuing on abusing her new power. She convinced upper management to implement a new policy where you would be disqualified from your monthly performance incentives if you take 2 total sick days a month. She says this is to reduce the number of sick days people take, which of course upper management loved hearing.
By the way, since she's a manager now, this particular policy doesn't affect her - it only applies to us in the trenches. She can still take as many sick days as she wants, since being a manager she can work from home.
Needless to say, save for a couple of suck-ups, she's lost a lot of friends and made a number of enemies in our department, particularly on our dev team.
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