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Old 06-09-2003, 07:59 PM
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OK, I'm partially playing the devil's advocate here -

So what if you have one point? Or two? You're not punished until you have seven. It sounds to me like the system is designed to accommodate illness - you basically get six sick days, except instead of calling them sick days they call them points.

Now if you get automatically fired at 7, that's a problem, a legal problem, because you can't get fired for getting sick.

I'm not saying this is a good system - what's wrong with old-fashioned sick days? - but that it's not quite as evil as everything else thinks it is.

I used to have a job where every time you were sick they demanded a doctor's note? Infantalizing? Yes. But on the other hand I knew how many of my co-workers were "sick" on the golf course, and I know why the company had a policy like that. If your company has an absenteeism problem, this may be their attempt to deal with it.
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