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Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-life balance more. (lemmy.world)
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I've seen others recently, but the two I saw today are a Capital One commercial and a Progressive commercial.

In the first, the Capital One guy is talking to a couple of people. He is asked what he does for fun, and he does not know what to say. Then, they cut to him getting ready to sleep at the bank.

Another is the Progressive commercial where Flo talks with another woman about vacations. The other woman doesn't seem to know what a vacation is. Flo begins describing what one is. In the end, she says she doesn't really know, gives up, and says she's never been on one either.

I was thinking about them while driving and came to the title thought.

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[–] 101 points 1 year ago (13 children)

The cold medicine commercials are big on going to work while ill. If you can't sleep because you're sick as fuck, please don't come to work and pass it to the rest of us!

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Then please give sick pay to EVERY job. My options while I'm sick? Go to work, or be homeless.

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

    Over here in Germany there's no sick pay when you're self employed, but there is (by law) when you are an employee.

    I had been self employed from my 20s to 50s and am an employee for 6 years now.

    I was in hospital last week to get my back fixed and am on sick leave for 4-6 weeks now. It's still fucking amazing to me, that I can heal up now and will still get my payment into my account end of the month.

    Having things like that written into law is amazing.

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

    Must be nice....

    coughs up a bloody lung diseased with covid

    'Scuse me while I go work my job assisting the elderly and disabled.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Ah fuck I hate that, when people go to work sick and infect everyone else. (Yes I understand you need to, and it's not your fault. So I hate your boss.)

    The history is interesting, we got health insurance and paid leave in the 1880s from Bismarck. He was trying to appease workers so they won't flock to the socialist or social democrat parties which were booming at that time. At the same time Bismarck outlawed left wing parties. (It was a stick and carrot approach).

    In 1969 we had a bipartisan left - right government ("great coalition") and they put up to 6 weeks of paid sick leave into. law.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I just saw a new one from the NyQuil company last night that they're now making pain quill? So now they'll sell you what I believe is just liquid ibuprofen and liquid cold meds so you can go to work even with that awful headache from being sick

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