And, apparently the tech companies are finding it to their advantage to pay certain folks to not show up.
You could call in woman too.
If you try calling in white guy, they’ll say you have to come in, who else is gonna actually do all the work?
When I hear the words “black” and “silicon” together in a sentence I assumed this was about Nicki Minaj
My job rarely allowed me to just call in “sick,” unless I was actually too ill to get out of bed or away from the bathroom. We had the concept of “mental health days” but if you were actually doing something of real-time importance they had to be coordinated.
Now that I’m retired, they’re all mental health days.
Hmmmph.
I should call in Menopausal. When I came back, all the scissors and sharp pencils will be gone.
I guess responding by saying suck it up and come in would be considered a micro-agression.
What a load of crap. Funny how they don’t get emotionally upset by the (far more numerous) victims of Black-on-Black crime. Maybe we should all get upset and call in sick when a person of our race is murdered by a person of another race?
Probably true. So they need employees who live in the past. People that call themselves a word that shows that is what they must be in their own minds.
Maybe the superstar athletes and "musicians" and even these people need to step up and try and change some of the negative aspects of their culture.
Tell their brothers and sisters to stop playing the fool. Pull their pants up. Learn to read, write and speak English. Give themselves a chance at a future with more of that forward thinking.
P.S. STFU obama and disappear. You are a big problem to too many people.
If they push that card too much, companies will take that into consideration when hiring.
She wrote about what it was like to attend work after the death of Sterling. She felt the need to seclude herself from her coworkers.
Who on earth would hire people like this who are so self-absorbed that they need time off to grieve for strangers? Don't they understand that they are pain-in-the-assing themselves out of the job market?
And they wonder why all their jobs are going to India.
Spent 35 years in Silicon Valley working 60 hr. weeks and longer on the road. Never needed or took a mental health day. My work WAS my mental health.
Get a grip, wusses.
back in the day, we called it coming down with a case of “sick leave”, cough, cough.
It must be nice knowing you’ll never be fired, no matter how bad a job you do.
Oracle Database corporation had a core tech worker on duty 24/7/365. Eventually he burned himself into an overworked heart attack driven by his boss. No calling in black.
Later after surgery, at the hospital itself, his boss showed up with the worker’s laptop, to guess what?
Keep on working!
Well if Elizabeth Warren can get a university gig as a “person of color”, then I think everybody should be allowed to “call in black”.
I'm calling bullshit. It's an excuse to get a free day off from work.
And if you truly can't work because you are stressed that a black person got killed, then you are too much of a pain in the ass for anyone to hire you.
I have a dead child - how's that for mental health - and I still manage to go to work. So shut up.
Fire the snowflakes and deny their racism.
Let’s just call it what it is, a person exemplifying the work ethic that is ingrained within a race or community. Don’t forget to add in the loose tennis shoes.
We used to call them “mental health days” - but, then, we worked in a psychiatric hospital....
Texas, we got to get the hell out of here. Put this BS on your list and if someone tries to use it, one way trip to the northern (or southern) border.
#TEXIT
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