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OC Sick Leave - [OC]

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u/Luutamo 1d ago

I think this comic might be too American for me to understand

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u/-non-existance- 1d ago

There are usually 2 kinds of paid leave (Paid Time Off) in the US: sick and vacation. Sick leave is an allotment of days where you can call in sick and still get paid. Vacation leave is the same but for vacations.

Until recently, there was an expectation that when you leave a job, your unused PTO would get lumped into your last paycheck.

As you can imagine, corpos have started clawing back that money. This is also egregious since corpos do everything they can to deny that leave in the first place ("You're not sick, you can still work." "Someone already is taking off that week so you can't. No I don't care that you already paid for it.")

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u/Fun_General_6407 1d ago

Why are you living in Cyberpunk without the chrome, neon and Akira motorbikes to make it bareable?

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u/Ghost-Writer 1d ago

Because we were taught non violent protesting would solve all our problems while the upper class sic their dogs on us.

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u/Lastoutcast123 1d ago

Someone forgot to tell the upper class “those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable”

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 1d ago

Yeah well that theory is being actively challenged in the US lol.

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u/stop-calling-me-fat 1d ago

Most armed country in the world living under rising fascism and being forced into pointless wars while they don’t even get healthcare. “Shrugs”

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u/GreenCyborgNinjaDude 1d ago

Most armed country includes the military and the racist bootlickers who voted the fashies in. Violent revolution would end in civil war where the world’s most well funded military (with massive civilian surveillance infrastructure ever since the PATRIOT act) took a side against it.

Quite frankly it would simply lead to a lot of death and the fascists no longer having a resistance.

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u/purplezart 1d ago

the fascists no longer having a resistance.

wasn't that the problem that started this thread?

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u/GreenCyborgNinjaDude 1d ago

Not caused by the people of the country, but the politicians who sold them out to the highest bidder, and the system they built to keep their corrupt kind in power.

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u/Lilchubbyboy 1d ago

It would not lead to civil war. That implies two separate governments that each claim to be the legitimate authority in the country. That will never happen because the American left does not have the spine required for that kind of defiance.

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u/KalaUposatha 1d ago

And then actively electing people who openly say they will make it worse and having two-thirds of the population not give a shit or cheer it on.

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u/Lastoutcast123 1d ago

Not really, it just challenges an immediate response. There will always be a breaking point.

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u/Phionex141 16h ago

Waiter! Waiter! More bread and circuses please!!!!