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I will have my laptop and be available intermittently (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] -3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

You fuckers joke, but this is totally not accurate. If your employer is large enough and you've got money to hire a lawyer if/when things go wrong, there's a legally mandated program referred to as FMLA in the USA that gives you the right to 12 whole fucking unpaid weeks of time away from your job if the company that your employer contracts out to handle these things approves of your request and your medical providers properly fill out all the paperwork necessary. So suck it Europe. And suck it Asia. And suck it Africa. And suck it all the other continents that don't have FMLA.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    gives you the right to 12 whole fucking unpaid

    unpaid

    That's not really something to brag about. But poe's law is real, and maybe you're doing a bit?

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    IMO The sarcasm is pretty thick in OP's comment. At least, as an American, I'm picking up on a whole lot of mockery of the red tape that goes along with this "benefit" if you are lucky enough to work somewhere that even offers it in the first place.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    lol 12 weeks unpaid

    you know we europeans get money while sick based on our salary, so we don't have to use up our financial reserves if we get sick. and this pretty long - after a few months sick pay gets reduced to about 70% of your income, but i was nearly a year on sick leave when my back crapped out hard and needed multiple surgeries. i never had to fear that i lose my living arrangement or even a lot of living standard - i didn't even lose my job.

    your FMLA sounds like "you are allowed to die homeless if you are sick and don't have reserves"

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Unpaid. And, at least in my experience, you have to use up your paid leave before you can start drawing from that unpaid time. That is worlds different from the typical paid time off in Europe.

    Edit: I totally missed the satirical tone of your comment the first time I read it.

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