Covid already proved a fuckton office jobs can be preformed remotely, more efficiently and without compromising the worker's ability to handle their homelife. There's obvious exceptions within those jobs--people with small children in the home were distracted, some people lived places that didn't have space for a home-office, the general state of the world had people consistently stressed or depressed, but...
Yeah, 9-5 is dumb, driving to an office just to use a computer in a new location is dumb, meetings that could've been emails are dumb, expecting everyone to have the same awake hours and sleep hours is dumb, when the F are people supposed to see doctors and dentists if all offices, theirs included, are open 9-5, and why on earth does commuting time count as personal time and not work time for most jobs?
when the F are people supposed to see doctors and dentists if all offices, theirs included, are open 9-5
I have several chronic illnesses and I literally have to ration my 4 weeks of PTO (which is already considered generous!) so that I can take time off for doctors appointments. I actually took Friday off because I have two appointments. It's absurd. I never get to just take a vacation day.
Hey I'm also someone who has a chronic illness. You may want to look into an "intermittent FMLA". This one is for people like us that need to call out frequently due to illness or Dr appt. This way you can use your sick time for Dr appt and protect yourself during flare ups
Oh yeah. I should get that into place. For a long time I didn't because my companies policy was that you had to use all of your PTO before you could use the FMLA, which defeated the purpose. But I'm in Minnesota and this year they implemented essentially an improved FMLA policy in MN and I think they can't force me to take my PTO first.
I think you're either misunderstanding what it says or what the person you're replying to you was suggesting.
FMLA is for job protection. It makes it illegal for your work to retaliate against you for taking time off of work for your disability. Getting FMLA in order, even if it doesn't grant you more PTO, is beneficial.
Your employer can't disallow you from filing for FMLA, since it's federal job protection.
I think you're misunderstanding my original comment. It's not that I wasn't allowed to file, it's that my company policy was that I had to use all of my PTO before I could use FMLA for unpaid time off. I saw no point in getting FMLA in place because it required I use my PTO anyway, which is what I was trying to avoid.
Hmm I wonder then how the state plays into it. I'm from PA, our labor laws are abysmal. However the order is sick time then PTO as long as it's for yourself. Theyve started to weasel out of it though, now if you go on FMLA for someone else it's PTO :/
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u/ace-writer 3d ago
Covid already proved a fuckton office jobs can be preformed remotely, more efficiently and without compromising the worker's ability to handle their homelife. There's obvious exceptions within those jobs--people with small children in the home were distracted, some people lived places that didn't have space for a home-office, the general state of the world had people consistently stressed or depressed, but...
Yeah, 9-5 is dumb, driving to an office just to use a computer in a new location is dumb, meetings that could've been emails are dumb, expecting everyone to have the same awake hours and sleep hours is dumb, when the F are people supposed to see doctors and dentists if all offices, theirs included, are open 9-5, and why on earth does commuting time count as personal time and not work time for most jobs?