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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Anons got his whole life of 4-40 ahead of him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago

Your happiest childhood memory is predicated on a lie, anon. Fake just like everything else you put your grubby little hands on.

[–] stevedice 16 points 17 hours ago

So you were always like this.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 day ago (6 children)

L. M. F. A. O.

Anon is definitely not asian.

Asian parents would tell you to get you ass to school, even if you have Covid.

Like my mom doesn't care if I infect the whole school with covid, as long as I'm not dead, I have to be in school.

🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

My parents were not Asian and still made me go to school while sick. I'd vomit by 10am and get scolded for making them take off work because the nurse called. I'd have a 102 degree fever and go to school. Race has nothing to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And thats why the whole plannet caught it 🤣

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yea Covid is not a secret weapon unleashed by some government. Its actually the wrath of asian helicopter parents. You've angered Confucious, so his spirit was invoked to teach y'all a lesson. Yep thats right. Covid is caused by old spirits. 🫠

[–] [email protected] 64 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Ironically, you will probably do better in school if you take 1-2 days off to rest, instead of wasting 3-4 days going in and getting nothing out of it because you're unable to focus. But who cares, right?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

This is what I also realized with work. It’s better to rest and recover in 2-3 days, then struggle for 4-5 or more (even from home office). Luckily, at my workplace in Germany, you can take 2 days of sick leave without any doctor’s note.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, you need a doctor's note for more than 2 days of sick leave?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yes, but please be aware that sick leave here is nearly unlimited, and you get your full salary (for several months), so of course there needs to be some control on it.

[–] funkless_eck 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

tell that to my PTO policy. I'm getting sick and getting paid, and spending my limited vacation on times I feel good.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Or think about it this way, would you rather have 2 weeks of PTO or one week of vacation and one week of sick leave? Or even 2.5 weeks PTO vs 2 weeks vacation and 1 week sick leave and you need to provide a reason for the sick leave?

I much prefer PTO over some mixed policy, even if the mix is technically more time off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I have almost 30 work days PTO plus virtually unlimited paid sick leave. Both basically standard over here.

Always amazes me that the US is not already chopping heads because of the bad health system alone

[–] funkless_eck 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I should just be able to call in sick if I'm sick. Why even track it?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Because people will abuse it, which sucks. And if you go with an unlimited PTO option, there's often a lot of cultural pressure to not take PTO.

[–] funkless_eck 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

so discipline those that abuse it? It's really a symptom of not engaging with your workforce on a realistic level. Many non-American countries deal with it adequately. In the UK your sick days don't come out of your vacation, and if you need more than a week off you have to get a doctor's note.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 3 hours ago

And whether that's a good system comes down to the quality of your immediate leadership. PTO gives you essentially a right to use time off for whatever you need, whereas discretionary time off comes down to the discretion of your manager. Some prefer the guarantee over a promise.

[–] leonine 8 points 22 hours ago

Yeh, try explaining that to an Asian parent.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did you break your arm just now? - Yes. - Is it the one with which you write? - No. - Going to school!

Running a fever? - Yes. - How high? - 39.9°C - Yeah, not fatal, going to school!

Can relate, I'm Balkan...

[–] Tar_alcaran 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is it the one you use to write? Why aren't you ambidextrous? Go to school!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Broke both of them? Perfect time to start developing photographic memory!

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 8 hours ago

Nah, that's when you get a happy ending.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

You’re ambidextrous anyway because you’ve been playing the piano since your third birthday !

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

Also if you had a single mother raising all the kids and working overtime at some factory.

I'd usually be found at school hugging a bottle of gingerale and periodically power puking in the bathroom when I was really sick.

Very rarely did I get out of it, and usually it was for strep throat or stomach infection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Well why do you think the future belong to them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

All your future are belong to us.

[–] Burghler 1 points 17 hours ago

The future belongs to asia? Wat