One week of COVID sick time when we are going to get it every quarter feels like a slap in the face on top of the return to workplace mess. We are going to lose so many people and recruiting is hard. Am I the only one feeling something must change?
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I mean - I didn't even use it in the past 2 years and I even had covid in february. I wasn't even that sick. My wife on the other hand was a little bit more sick and took two days off. I think 1 week is plenty unless youre trying to game the system.
@2gwe Just because someone has it worse, doesn't invalidate the feelings and emotions of what OP is going through. Sorry your husband works at such a sh*tty company. And those 8 folks should file unlawful termination claims.
We live in a country without basic human rights (like healthcare and childcare). Right now, it's still largely privatized. So...there will be complaints to the private sector. If it bothers Nike enough, they'll advocate for it. Case in point: marriage rights. They actually wrote a public letter (in 2005?) saying it was costly for them to keep track of separate benefits for those in domestic partnerships vs. marriages. lolz
Be thankful you get “Covid sick time” and probably have a manager who will at least work with you if you legit need to be out longer due to Covid. My husband gets zero hours of “Covid sick time” and if his unreasonable company leaders think someone has been out too long for Covid - using their own PTO all the while - they get written up and possibly fired. At least 8 people in his 250 person company have been canned for daring to have Covid too long.
Sometimes Nike employees lose perspective and forget how relatively good they have it. Some of the complaints on this board have merit but there’s also a lot of entitlement from people I assume have never worked at places that would make Nike look like a playground in comparison. My husband sometimes reads the comments here, shakes his head and says “You work with a bunch of spoiled kids, don’t you?”
He often has a point.
With the way the economy is going we are returning to an employer's market. There's going to be a glut of laid off workers flooding the market soon, with less open positions. I think you're going to see people fleeing the Bay Area to markets that haven't been hit by layoffs yet. Buckle up...
I’m not sure what you want them to do OP!
There has been 216k deaths of Covid, Influenza and Pneumonia combined in 2022 so far. 156k have been Covid specific per cdc site.
Before Covid, we were at around 52k deaths a year from Influenza. 2018-2019 season was even higher.
We’re not far from that number, especially considering our population growth the past 2 years.
The goal was immunity and most of us at working age are not at risk for death.
Before Covid, many were sick once every quarter with something. If you weren’t, lucky you!
It was time and is time to move forward with our lives. I suggest you do the same.
You realize that pretty much the rest of the world (outside a few US outlier companies) has learned how to deal with Covid.
Is it deadly, sure. Does it suck, yes… but deal with it.
Just work from home