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Welcome to America, where you’re never quite sure if your senator is dead or not (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Real senator, or wax figurine?

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[–] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

In any normal job, you'd get fired by day 3 of no show, no explanation.

Some jobs would just take 1 day.

But it's ok, being a congressman isn't like an important job or anything, right?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    In my company it's like 10 days because they use this really awful third party HR company who are incredibly slow at passing the message along.

    One time I was off sick for 3 days with food poisoning and I told them about it on the first day but they didn't pass the message along until after I'd already got back. They called up told me I had food poisoning 5 days ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Where the shit do you work where youd get cut after 1 day ?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    In some positions, not showing up with no heads up, no explanation, can cost the company a shitload of money. Filmmaking for example, you might have a location booked to shoot at for the day, some important person doesn't show up, you can't shoot your scenes. And actors aren't the only people who could potentially hold up a shoot.

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