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It's hard to tell. I've worked at places that would definitely fire me for using a week of vacation, and legally in my state vacation isn't a tangible guaranteed thing; it's completely legal to just fire the employee instead if they try to use it without compensation. Practically some jobs don't have time off. You just get fired.
At my last workplace one of my colleagues took a couple of days off per week for 3 weeks to participate in some robotics competitions. He was teased and generally made aware how much of an inconvenience his planned absence was.
This same workplace made up a reason to fire me just because they didn't like me. I can make a million and one guesses as to why I was actually fired, but the most telling part is they didn't even stick to the reasons they provided for firing me when I applied for unemployment and the unemployment office called to verify details with them. They dropped all of the pretense they built up and basically just said I wasn't a good fit for the team. I may or may not qualify for unemployment, I should find out soon.
Fortunately I've been doing some contact work for my previous employer on the side so I've been able to make that my main gig to try to keep the bills paid. I'm not sure what I'd be doing right now if I didn't have that, given this job market is so terrible right now. I've been applying for 5-10 jobs a week for the last 6 weeks and I've had a single interview
Thats … really worker unfriendly
welcome to the USA! we hate our citizens
My wife was fired from a job for getting sick (kidney stones). We were told if we don't like it, sue, but I bet you can't afford either with the medical bills. It took us years to pay for that stone.
There are some very unkind people out there who take advantage of their position. It's a right-to-work state which just means that you can be fired for any and no reason with no recourse. It's dystopian as hell. Most people in these positions put up with it because they enjoy eating.
Stuff like this really makes me want to scream.
And yet people just recently voted to make it all much much worse.
they have to prepare for when they eventually leave the trailer park and become the ruling class
Let's hope the accelerationists are right, then
It’s all we can do. We can hope.
What are you, some kind of communist? Don't make me call ICE on you!
I’ll call dobrint on you
Oh nein! Bitte nicht Dobrindt!
Hey, hey, hey, slow down. We don't want things to get ugly.. and you also shouldn't fire all your shots at once. The only measure that remains after Dobrindt is Söder (||─.─）
In the U.S. it's a long propaganda history called "right to work." It's sold as being freedom and rights for the people, but really it just strips unionizing rights away and gives corporations power.
Like most laws in the U.S., it's all lies and only abject morons buy it.
Right to work is up there with unlimited vacation on the misleading propaganda front.
It’s backwards speak like most conservative legislation. Right to work actually means you have no rights at work.