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CC1 - Let's say you've eaten something that is messing with your digestion and you keep running to the bathroom. That doesn't stop you from actually getting work done. You just have to be close to a bathroom and not making it a miserable experience for anybody else that needs to use the bathroom. There's one example why you would want to stay home and still work.
That might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Right? I can’t believe we’re still talking about this.
If your firm doesn’t want you making money for them today then take the sick day. It’s a red flag though. I don’t know if I’d want to work someone so inflexible that they would rather get everyone sick than let someone work from home.
Who’s still testing for Covid is the better question
Not funny. My boss dropped dead last summer from complications of Covid when his early retirement was imminent. Covid will never stop being an illness that kills people.
I can only imagine if this is their policy that they have all sorts of other totally unreasonable authoritarian policies as well. Sounds like a real joy of a place to work.
This sounds exactly like my firm. Rather than have people working from home if you are contagious, they have people take PTO, which makes no sense and they don't put it in writing.
Who is still testing for Covid? What benefit does testing provide?
You’re sick, stay home. If the firm doesn’t want you to work from home when sick (weird but whatever) then take the sick day.
A2 don't be a dick and get others sick with potentially life threatening illnesses. Management is ass but doesn't mean you have to too
Take the sick day and stay home. If you want to / need to work, do it at home and bill it the next day that you're in the office.
Your firm's policy is dumb.
Yes, I’ve seen this told to a coworker before.. and that was like 2 or 3 years ago lol.
My last firm was so lame about WFH so they made him take PTO. That set the precedent for the rest of us though… no one ever called in sick after that. We’d just all show up to the office to work when sick (provided we were healthy enough to work).
Policies like that are probably why Covid was a thing in 2020 lol.
No, but absolutely believable. Wonder if they would have said the same if you had the flu? Some people also just don't care about transmission of anything. They think they won't get it so why wouldn't you come to the office.
Hell no. This is so stupid and short-sighted of your firm. What I tell my people is that they deserve to rest and feel better and we (their in-office colleagues) deserve to not get their germs. Stay home, get better, work on that resume.
That kind of policy can really screw over the firm. If they force a worker to come work even though they've got proof of a positive COVID test and someone else gets infected, what if that someone else has to be in trial later that week? Or what if the person has to run a massive in-house annual event for the firm (like I do this Thursday)? The chaos that can ensue from such a policy is just unwarranted and stupid business practice.
And what if there are people in the office with auto-immune diseases that have compromised immune systems. That's exactly what my office does come or stay home, they will not let you WFH. Makes no sense.
Honestly, it seems unreasonable for your firm to say you can’t work from home. If the job can be done remotely and you’re contagious but feel well enough to work, they should let you. Thankfully, I run my own practice, so I let my team work from home—I don’t want them coming in and making me sick.
Send me your resume - we let our lawyers work sick from anywhere they want!
I didn’t know lawyers at law firms took pto/sick days. I was in private practice my entire career and never had to ask for permission for i was doing. The whole point of going to law school as an adult (meaning nearly 40 years of age) was the flexibility. Except my first two or three years, i never asked for permission to work from home. And this is pre-wfh days. In fact, when i started practicing, the firm policy was to let people you work with know when you are out of the office. But never to get permission! I continued letting colleagues know after i went to other firms that didn’t have that policy, but i could tell my assistant that i am not coming that day and no one would ask me why. So, i am finding it odd that someone who is sick doesn’t have the flexibility to do what works best for them— work if you can; don’t if you can’t. Ultimately, billable (or billed) hours and meeting client needs are how the firm will measure your productivity. Who cares when you do the work, right? That was my experience. I have worked all kinds of odd times because of deadline and i have off office middle of days because i had something i needed ti attend to.
What a stupid firm. We're professionals. We don't need permission to do anything. We just do it.
If you’re “sick but can work” that sounds like you can work, so why can’t you go in the office? If you’re sick, take a sick day. If you can work, go to work.
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And get everyone else sick, too!
I think I know what firm this is….
NYC?
I don’t understand why a firm ran by women would be like this! But I think they’re just insecure and hellbent on asserting their authority through petty means!