🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@jellycrystals I just spent a month in Thailand (my girlfriend is from there)... the smog was really bad when i first got there.

@realcaseyrollins Yes we both know that both sides have a history of using children as human shields.

Here is the report from the UN itself by the way confirming the numbers:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/10/1142687

@realcaseyrollins You realize this has been the pattern **every** time this happens with israel... I showed yout he death toll in past conflicts... usually israel kills something like 10x to 15x the people of hamas every round, and most of them tend to be children due tot he indiscriminate nature of their attacks.

@realcaseyrollins Nope, these are the official numbers reported and repeated by quite a few news agencies

@thatguyoverthere

Depends ont he boss, and if you get paid for that time off... If you arent getting paid some bosses may truely be ok with any limit.

@knittingknots2 @migmit

@knittingknots2 @migmit

Well you get vacation days as a seperate alotment. And if you use your sickdays for vacation, and especially if you come in sick to do so, then I think its the company's business as your causing harm to your coworkers to do that.

@migmit

As was explained to me the number of sick days were fixed but if i had an actual injury that would cause me to need more then there is a process, like you wont loose your job.

But thats true of the USA too.. it is illegal to fire someone in the USA due to illness.

@knittingknots2

@knittingknots2

By the way to be clear I am not claiming my expiernce with sick days is typical. I was just asked about my personal expiernce and am answering.

I am saying most other people do have fixed sick days, even though i never have, int he USA. Its just that most people wont use them so they can use them later when they arent sick... or because they cant afford to not get paid, one of the two. Usually a bit of both.

@migmit

@knittingknots2

Are you in the USA?

@migmit

@knittingknots2

Every job I have ever had int he USA (which is almost all of them as an employee) had unlimited sick days AND my sick days were fully paid.

@migmit

@migmit

Oddly enough in the netherlands you would even need a doctors note to take sick days.. in the USA I have never heard of anyone demanding a doctors note.

@knittingknots2

@migmit

Your original post was talking about how it is insanity that the US get fixes sickdays?

I presume your confused because my info says I live in the Netherlands... 1) I have a home int he USA too 2) All work ive ever done as an employee has been USA except for one job in the Netherlands (not counting consulting)

Interestingly that Netherlands job was the only one that actually had a fixed number of sick days, my USA jobs have never had fixed number of sick days.

@knittingknots2

@migmit

Me, My jobs have always given me unlimited sick days. I have literally never had a job that gave me a fixed number of sick days except when i worked int he EU...

@knittingknots2

@migmit

What do you mean no sick days... we absolutely get sick days.

You are right americans tend to go to work to save their sickdays.. but thats largely because they would rather use sickdays on days they arent sick.

@knittingknots2