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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.
🤦♂️
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?
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.
Wait, you need a doctor’s note for more than 2 days of sick leave?
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.
Unlimited isn’t worth very much if it’s subject to approval. I’ve had friends get unlimited time off (not sick leave, vacation time) and they end up using less of it than me due to the approval step and related social norms.
I’m not saying your situation is like that, I’m just saying I’m skeptical of offers like that.
My setup is 3.5 weeks PTO, 3x/week WFH, and I can WFH those other days if I need to (pretty flexible, just requires notice, not approval). So I end up taking 2-3 days off sick, and the other 3 weeks are vacation, and I usually take them 1-2 weeks at a time. Hours worked also aren’t tracked, we just need to hit deliverables every two weeks based on our own estimates.
So yeah, I’ll take the bird in the hand over the two in the bush.
There is no approval needed:
- up to 2 days continously: I say I am sick, I am put on sick leave. I had to do this already the 3rd time this year (thx German weather)
- from the 3rd day, I need to bring a paper from the doc. If the doc says I’m sick, I’m kept on sick leave as long as the doc requested
- vacation days are independent from sick days: I get 30 paid vacation days, so 6 weeks
Yeh, try explaining that to an Asian parent.
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…
Is it the one you use to write? Why aren’t you ambidextrous? Go to school!
Broke both of them? Perfect time to start developing photographic memory!
Well why do you think the future belong to them?
So you were always like this.
