‘I wasn’t allowed to call out sick’: Employee scores a $14,000 severance after his boss denies him sick days and refuses to acknowledge a legitimate doctor's note
Big companies can get away with inhumane injustices simply because they have the sharkiest lawyers on retainer waiting to crush the opposition. Employees are only a tiny bug carcass on the windshield of massive corporations, so when the little guy attempts to stand up to them, all businesses need to do is blast the wiper fluid and brush away their problems. But some injustices in the workplace are worth fighting for, especially if you could score a $14,000 payout when you threaten to expose their ugly underbelly.
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Although big companies think the daily struggles of the workforce are just a nuisance, to those of us down here in the trenches, when our minuscule benefits are threatened, we're ready to go to war to preserve them. We may not have very many hours or days of PTO to use during the year, but in an emergency where we need to use all of our leave to cover a few weeks in the hospital, our personal problems are a lot bigger than the problems of the workplace.
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In this next story, one employee stood up to the big boss of his company after they denied him any usable sick days. At the risk of losing his job and legal action from a Goliath attorney, u/lecoqmako stood up for his rights and his own health needs– winning $14k in the process.
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