I understand the sentiment but this leans way too much into the Japanese mentality of work-life balance. My sick days are a negotiated part of my contract. I feel no more hesitation in using them than I do in taking all of my paycheck home each week.
My boss at my first "real job" told me some good advice very early in my career that was entirely correct but I didn't follow as much as I should have: "it's my job to push you as hard as I can get away with, and it's your job to tell me when to stop".
Placed I've worked if you don't use sick days they're paid out as worked days.
So it's not like you're losing by coming to work with the sniffles. Taking a sick day you're really just taking a vacation day when you can't enjoy it.
I've worked plenty that were entirely "use it or lose it" with your sick days, and all your days off. Most of them early in my career at low end jobs, but that's where most people work too.
In those situations, you are literally working for free at your most miserable for an entire shift for every sick day you don't take. Double so because most of those work places won't let you "burn off" those days at the end because of things like >3 needing doctor's notes.
Then you're risking actually getting seriously ill and losing your job because you took too many 'mental health' days.
You can save a lot of money by not paying insurance, stashing away the premiums instead, and hoping for the best. Your sick days at a shitty company like that are insurance against being fired, because you're easily replaceable at any company with that policy.
If its use it or lose it, than you save it until you need it and then strategically burn it off in the months leading up little by little to make sure you aren't left holding a giant bunch you cannot possible use. Its a pretty simple system anyone who worked at such a company figured out after a year.
Yes its a shitty company, not all of us just walked out of the house and got a job somewhere bitchin' and awesome. We all had to start somewhere. And at those jobs, you know you are replaceable from day one and you make sure to prioritize yourself and maximizing it above the company.
I'm sorry I ruined your high horse by showing you that your experience is not universal, try not to let it get you so mad.
I understand the sentiment but this leans way too much into the Japanese mentality of work-life balance. My sick days are a negotiated part of my contract. I feel no more hesitation in using them than I do in taking all of my paycheck home each week.
My boss at my first "real job" told me some good advice very early in my career that was entirely correct but I didn't follow as much as I should have: "it's my job to push you as hard as I can get away with, and it's your job to tell me when to stop".
Placed I've worked if you don't use sick days they're paid out as worked days.
So it's not like you're losing by coming to work with the sniffles. Taking a sick day you're really just taking a vacation day when you can't enjoy it.
I've worked plenty that were entirely "use it or lose it" with your sick days, and all your days off. Most of them early in my career at low end jobs, but that's where most people work too.
In those situations, you are literally working for free at your most miserable for an entire shift for every sick day you don't take. Double so because most of those work places won't let you "burn off" those days at the end because of things like >3 needing doctor's notes.
Then you're risking actually getting seriously ill and losing your job because you took too many 'mental health' days.
You can save a lot of money by not paying insurance, stashing away the premiums instead, and hoping for the best. Your sick days at a shitty company like that are insurance against being fired, because you're easily replaceable at any company with that policy.
If its use it or lose it, than you save it until you need it and then strategically burn it off in the months leading up little by little to make sure you aren't left holding a giant bunch you cannot possible use. Its a pretty simple system anyone who worked at such a company figured out after a year.
Yes its a shitty company, not all of us just walked out of the house and got a job somewhere bitchin' and awesome. We all had to start somewhere. And at those jobs, you know you are replaceable from day one and you make sure to prioritize yourself and maximizing it above the company.
I'm sorry I ruined your high horse by showing you that your experience is not universal, try not to let it get you so mad.