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'Don't believe I have the flu?': Night shift worker forced to come into work despite illness, maliciously complies and gets sick in front of boss

Some toxic work environments have got to amend their sick day policies. Here, we have an employee who was told that he had to come into work to be assessed about whether or not they were truly sick enough. The Redditor explained that as a night shift supervisor, there were instances in which this kind of assessment was important. However, when it came to illness, it's better for everyone involved if employers just took the employee's word for it. Not only is it best for everyone involved health-wise, but also employees are entitled to sick days and they can do whatever it is they want with those days.

 

Now, this Redditor wasn't using his sick day for recreational purposes; he actually had the flu. However, he was of course forced to come to work anyway for this bogus assessment. Here is where the malicious compliance comes in. Sure, OP showed up when he was supposed to, but it didn't mean that he was going to control himself. Let's just say that OP left a nice present for his supervisor, which also served as more than enough proof of his flu-like symptoms. Let's hope the supervisor also got sick too, since he was the one enforcing a policy that endangers the health and wellbeing of every employee there. 

 

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