'I am at a loss for words. This is pathetic…': CEO's viral request that employees donate their leave to sick coworker draws worker's rage online
"We're a family here," your HR will gladly tell new hires—a strained smile, thinly stretched, veiling years of workplace abuse, mistreatment, and exploitative policy that would say directly otherwise. The truth is that the only "family" this workplace resembles is a family on a true crime program where the children are chained in the basement by their remorselessly autocratic parents, who insist that the children should be eternally thankful for every scrap offered to them.
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No, it's not much like a family at all, but that's not going to stop them from gaslighting and guilt-tripping workers (resorting to silencing when necessary) in order to keep wages low and fatten their purse.
It's in workplaces like the one described above where policies like the one below are born. Sure, the CEO could easily grant this ‘long-term employee’ some extra leave in order to help them in their time of grief and thank them for their long service, but that act of goodwill would require them to pay out of pocket. No, better to convince the other workers to sacrifice their leave instead, ensuring that accrued leave of the workplace remains as low as possible and those workers remain tied to their desks while also allowing management to play the hero for posting a piece of paper in the breakroom. It's no small wonder how this brilliant plan could backfire so spectacularly. One of the disgruntled members of the workplace shared a photo of the notice online, where it proceeded to go viral, drawing the rage of workers online.
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