Can anyone American explain what “perfect attendance” means?
Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income
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InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 minutes ago
It means he showed up and cooked food even while sick, putting the rest of us at risk. But I can’t blame him because the other option is probably poverty.
dwemthy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Never missed a day/shift, probably no sick days. Never seen it celebrated at a job, just in elementary school
jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Never buying from burger King again, no sick days? 100% this guy bless his soul came to work with flu, or with the runs, he would’ve come with covid.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Used to have a job that would pay you double time for any sick time you didn’t use but they never celebrated this shit lol
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
54 years old.
First home, but not from working. Good fucking luck everyone.
towamo7603@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Working food service at a major airport and never called in sick. Dude was undoubtedly a super spreader.
Soup@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
For sure, and all because the US has zero federally required sick days and that energy is directed at the little guy, especially immigrants. He was probably scared to call in sick and/or too poor to be able to miss the pay for the lost hours.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
He’s wearing a mask in June ‘22, maybe he’s just careful.
Anivia@feddit.org 6 hours ago
No one goes 27 years without catching a cold
qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Last year I completed 10 years worked at a company. I got a generic card basically saying to keep up the good work.
Someone else I worked with got a pin after 15 years.
I heard at 20 years you get a coffee mug.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 37 minutes ago
Reminds me of the TV show severance, work a few more years and maybe you will get the music and dance experience soon
immutable@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I once worked at a place that had a fun “birthday wheel”
You got to spin it on your birthday and get a prize.
After 7 years of working 60 hour weeks I got a $5 Pete’s gift card. The same day a marketing intern won a Vespa.
It was an important lesson about how hard work does not pay
bitchkat@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Shortly after my company was acquired I got notified of my 20 year anniversary. They kept our original hire dates from old company.
They let you pick stuff from a catalog. I got a shop vac and a “pearl” necklace. 5 years later, they added a visa gift card option. Always take the gift card.
Agent641@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
At 25 years you get a new yacht for your boss.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I would be a social worker or a cook if I could live off the pay.
I have to work for myself to make enough to live, i don’t have the option to help my community through my work.
RedSuns@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Went to look for his food truck in Nevada to check it out and there is a lot about this 1 year old story that doesn’t add up. For a guy who never missed a day of work for 29 years and allegedly bought a food trailer named “K27Y”, there’s no business listing or web presence at all. His Facebook page even looks fabricated. Very very odd. Either something happened that caused him to change his mind and quit working and/or he took the money and ghosted his supporters. Something just seems off about this story.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Or the entire story is fabricated, including the DS donation?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 15 hours ago
So what’s the moral of this story? That you should miss some work days or that you should keep grinding in the hope of going viral one day?
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I see 2 morals to the story. Firstly, don’t work at BK for 27 years because they don’t give a shit about you, and you could probably make a better living at many other jobs in that time. Secondly, that rage-bait gathers attention on the internet and can possibly lead to riches if you promote your story of injustice to the public and solicit donations.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
That you should become a carpenter, befriend a smith and then build a guillotine together :)
xpey@piefed.social 21 hours ago
I don't have to imagine!
viking@infosec.pub 21 hours ago
Controversial take, but why would someone deserve recognition for carrying out work duties as per contractual agreement?
He did what he was paid for, no more, no less. Being sick or not is by and large outside of someone’s immediate control and should receive neither reward nor punishment.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I chewed on your comment for a while before writing this, but I think I (also controversially) agree with you. The employer-employee system is cold and uncaring, as per its design. No employee should expect some sort of ‘special recognition’ from their employer, and no employer should expect to receive more labor than they pay for. I think a lot of the replies you are getting are geared more towards how people think things OUGHT to be, i.e. an infusion of humanity and caring/emotion into a cold, mechanical socioeconomic system that treats people as cogs. I imagine you and I are approaching this from different perspectives, but at the end of the day your employer is NOT your friend. They do NOT have your best interest. An employee should NOT go above and beyond, unless compensated fairly for doing so. [Disclaimer: I am (probably clearly) one of those lefties that does not support the current socioeconomic system and I think things OUGHT to be different, but they arent.]
cabillaud@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You’re right. Don’t even say thank you when they hand you your burger, they’re just doing their job, after all.
RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Think about how many times, legitimate and illegitimate, times you’ve missed work in year. Now 5 years. This guy didn’t miss scheduled work in 27 years. It’s actually insane.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 16 hours ago
Yeah it’s horrible. This guy would have come in sick and spread so much around.
We need to outraged that this poor bastard couldn’t even take time off to get better, not amazed and proud that he was exploited so much for so long.
viking@infosec.pub 20 hours ago
Yeah, so? I took days off when I was sick, as per my contract.
He either didn’t get sick (and fulfilled the contract as intended) or went to work sick (in violation of health and safety requirements).
I still don’t see how that demands praise.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Is this the reason you parents have you for not having a birthday party? I mean you just exhausted for another year, line everyone else, no achievement whatsoever
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I unironically feel this way about birthdays, but I hide my opinion because everyone thinks I’m a monster.
baines@lemmy.cafe 19 hours ago
you sir have the perfect attitude to run daddy’s buisness!
viking@infosec.pub 18 hours ago
I’m running my own business and make more than my dad, but thanks.
Soup@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Man, reading your comments is wild. I hope you find a heart sometime, it would do you good.
viking@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
I rather block lefties coming out of the woodworks, cleans my frontpage up nicely.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 18 hours ago
I get what you’re saying, and it’s pretty much how I view my job. It’s not a healthy view though.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You realize that almost every employee calls in sick a few times a year. Even the most dedicated employees.
viking@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
Yes. Doesn’t mean the ones who don’t are special in any way.
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Ahh, I think what your missing is something called perspective.
If you’re in a good relationship with a partner then as the years pass you find yourself appreciating them more and more.
If you’re a hardworking business owner or manager that’s actually there doing the work alongside the employee, you gain the appreciation that even though their task may be different, they are just as dedicated and as hard working as you are (while also receiving less income).
If you’re absent or detached from the process, of course you’re only looking at the contractual obligations and if they’re “holding up their end” of the deal. It takes time and emotions, hard sweat and tears. Not something you’re just suppose to “get”. It comes after those nights where equipment eventually breaks, A/C goes out, Rush times are beyond your capacity or anything your facility could handle, customers are literally in your face screaming at you. It builds a bond in hell that a contract could never really spell out properly.
If you don’t feel anything after that especially with a romantic partner, you might want to explore the idea that maybe you’re missing out on a part of life that wasn’t emotionally developed in you and there are steps to rectify and address the situation.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I’m sorry but there’s absolutely no chance you typed that out “out of curiosity” or any other acceptable reason.
You typed all of that out to be an asshole, and to answer your real question, yes, you are an asshole.
viking@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
Curiosity? I clearly said “controversial”. Learn how to read before insulting people.
BigBenis@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Now imagine, successful GoFundMe campaigns for everybody but funded by taxes on the rich instead of random working people’s well-meaning but arbitrary intentions.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
Shhh - that sounds like a commie conspiracy to me - McCarthy might hear you.