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["Seitenkango, Shinyuu to" by Eroe]

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Some people literally can't afford to stay home. I'm not losing my job or failing a class over a cold. I definitely wish most work/university environments were more understanding, but that is their fault, not mine.

The average number of paid sick days/year in the US is 8, and most universities are so brow-beaten into catering to their students that, as long as you're not out sick on the day of the final, taking a sick day is unlikely to affect your grade appreciably. Stop trying to blame "the system" for your inability to take responsibility for your own shit, you entitled baby.

You do realize there is a huge chunk of the work force that doesn't qualify for paid sick days, right? And that said chunk is not included in any calculations of average number of paid sick days?

And that for there to be an average, there has to be a significant percentage of the population that is counted in the study that falls below it? Or are you as terrible at math as you are at comprehending the reality of current standards of employee care?

I'm in university and I am allowed two sick days before it starts lowering my grade ten points at a time. Way to be completely ignorant and just running on baseless rhetoric about how "browbeaten" universities are.

Hell, I once was sick on the day of an exam and my prof let me take it a couple of days later when I was feeling better. Most teachers will be accommodating because they don't want to see their students fail.

I have never, ever heard of or been in a class where missing just a couple of days would cause you to fail, neither in undergrad nor grad school. In my last certification class you only had to show up for 80% of the classes to get an automatic pass on attendance.

It varies by school.

The school where I took my undergrad, as long as you made up any labs you missed, you could take off sick with a doctor's note. At the schoole where I did my Masters work, the students could miss two classes with valid cause (doctor's note, funeral notice, etc.) and couldn't make up labs. Students with recognized disabilities could get special dispensation, but if you were just garden-variety sick, the best you could get is an incomplete.

Most teachers will be accommodating because they don't want to see their students fail.

Most. I had professors not so kind or understanding, and I certainly had ones who used their classes as a power trip.

+1 It really depends on the university and teacher. My university had a very strict policy about failure if you missed a certain number of days. The nicer teachers would help students but the not so nice teachers would fail students no matter what happened in their life.

Yeah. I was lucky, but I had a friend who lived in the same dorm who got pneumonia the day of her verbal Japanese exam. She was forbidden to reschedule, and could not afford to skip, because her family didn't have the money to retake her class.

So she went, did her verbal exam with raging pneumonia and collapsed in the hallway.

She passed.

(This is also why I am so, SO glad my father didn't end up a professor. He flat-out admitted he didn't believe disabled students deserved any accommodation and he WOULD have power-tripped the hell out of his students, regardless of sickness or circumstance.)

I'm almost afraid to ask, but you do mean passed as in passed the exam, right?

And wow, no offense to your father, but that would've really sucked for me.

OH NO! She was totally alive and got better! Not that kind of passed! D: Perish the thought!

Yeah, no, Dad NEVER should become a teacher.

AYRT - Whew! I was a little worried. (Although in retrospect, I shouldn't have said anything. I'm sorry.)

Yeah, no, they didn't die, thank god! It's okay, just D: to think. I mean, pneumonia is pretty serious stuff.

I had 4 days a semester you could use for anything. Sick days, need to stay home and study like crazy, etc, before it started to affect your grades.

After that? You BETTER have had a doctor's note. And even then, it would depend on the teacher.

Come to RISD then, where if you have two unexcused absences from a class, then you're immediately dropped from the class. And it's a bitch to get an excuse.

Of course, most teachers are nicer or more understanding than the rule, but it's still the rule.

Didn't realize anyone else from there was here too! What department are you in?

At the university I attend, missing more than two days of classes lowers your grade for the semester by ten percentage points or one letter grade.

Average doesn't mean "that's what everyone gets." In fact 8 is astronomically high for most people.

My University had a policy of "miss 3 days and you fail" each semester, that meant for a year of school I was allowed 4 days off.

The laws in my state require people to have sick leave, but that is only AFTER you work a certain number of hours, so say you just started a new job, then that new job has no obligation to give you leave even if you are super ill.

Serious illness can often also take more then a day or two to get over, and some people have illnesses multiple times a year. It just isn't realistic for everyone to take off when they please. This is not even including the employers who skirt the law and really don't ever let their employees take off.

Lolz, paid sick leave. That's a thing people get? I NEVER got it. And I eventually got fired when my health got nuked, which is how I ended up homeless. Good ol' American entitlement!

Also, I lived in a dorm with a girl who HAD to take her verbal Japanese final with fucking pneumonia. Yes they knew she had pneumonia. No she was not allowed to reschedule. And the final was an immense portion of her grade, which she could not skip without flunking the class, which she couldn't afford to retake. She collapsed in the hall and everyone just left her there, because it was the honors dorm, and that's just what you did.

I mean, I figure you're a troll; you've got to be, because I think you'd rather be thought mean-spirited than shamefully oblivious.

Yeah, I can miss two classes before points start getting taken out of my final grade (unless I have a doctor's excuse and lmao I'm not going to the doctor for a cold or flu) and while my job now is very lenient about missing work, when I was working in retail a doctor's excuse was absolutely necessary. Like, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

The doctor's excuse thing is terrible too when you aren't making enough money and/or aren't provided insurance at a job.

Like regular colds can make a person ill enough that they can't work but there's shit all a doctor can do about it unless you're about to die so it's stupid to make people go into a doctor for that. My Doctor even recommends not going into work with a fever but not to necessarily see them unless the fever doesn't go away.

My work allows 5 sick days. So, where the hell are my other 3, anon? Huh? You tell me.

If I'm out for Bronchitis, I'm usually out for 2 days. I now have 3 days left for sickness. If I end up with another respiratory infection (where i work, you breath in a lot of dust/dirt and you are out in the elements 80% of the time), I'll most likely be out another 2 days.

I now have one day left before it starts counting against my attendance. If I ever end up dropping below a 96% attendance rate, I'm out the door.

So, if that shit happens? I have to go into work, wear a mask, and take a shit ton of drugs. Though, just for you? I'ma leave the mask off. And cough in your general direction.

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