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> One of my past employers actually did away with ALL sick time. One was only able to take vacation time when one was sick.

This was policy at my former employer. People showed up sick all the damn time and flu season was invariably a disaster.

Next time an employer presents me with this brilliant stratagem they can absolutely shove it. If people are sick they should damn well stay home, and incentivizing them to sneeze all over their coworkers is myopic.

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My Japanese company does this. Their "solution": don't get sick. You should be taking vitamins and getting enough nutrition.

Miraculously people manage it. Somehow I never get sick on the weekdays and then I can feel my body collapsing on the train on Friday night as I am no longer able to push the sickness back.

I'm not sure what I would do if I had children (and I really want to have them). Fighting sickness as a single man is not the same as fighting sickness when you have elementary school kids in the house.

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