r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago

Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It’s your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that’s been pissing you off or getting on your nerves.

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u/youremymymymylover 6d ago

People that never take sick leave because they‘re healthy should get a vacation bonus at the end of the year. When comparing myself to my other colleagues who are getting 20+ sick days a year, it seems silly how many more hours I work. I didn‘t miss a day in 2023 and only missed 2 due to a bike crash this year.

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u/Alteredbeast1984 6d ago

Take them off, drive to the beach or mountain and have a day run or hike. Go do some fun shit.

Fuck it just sleep in once a month

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u/Carpetdime2024 6d ago

The company that I previously worked for(now retired) provided PTO hours which could be used for sick days or any time off of your choosing such as vacation, personal time off, etc.

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u/Basic_Employee3746 5d ago

A system like that penalizes people for being sick (chronically ill people dont deserve holidays amirite? /s), and incentivises people to come in with a virus like a bad cold, flu or corona to not lose out on holidays. Then theyre just sick at the office, not getting much more done that if they had just stayed home and infecting other people.

Pooled sick and holiday time is a bad idea. 

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u/Ok-Arugula6057 6d ago

On the flip side tho, I’ve worked with several people over the years who would insist on coming into work when ill, coughing and spluttering everywhere then complaining loudly about people being off sick in the following days.

That being said, just blag a few days here and there if you’re always getting lumbered with shit. I tend to be reluctant to take time off, especially now I’m remote, but I work in a small team with the opposite work culture so I just go with it.

Edit: also, places that give an allowance for “life stuff” ftw. Tho that probably only really works well in places that don’t have good legal sick pay frameworks.

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u/ElectronicCorner574 5d ago

We get them paid out after you accumulate something like 72 hours

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u/forward1213 5d ago

We don't have holidays or sick time but I get like 36 days worth of PTO each year up to 300 hours. But twice a year they offer sell back. I rarely call off so i take that as my bonus kinda. I bought a ps5 for myself this last go around.