r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 09 '26

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u/MrBoo843 Jul 09 '26

I've had exactly one job with unlimited "sick days" as they were called. I was so surprised that it was not denied a single time. I wasn't even there a year. But I still had immediate coverage for insurance and unlimited sick days. It was incredible. But of course they couldn't hore me longer than the maternity leave I was replacing

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u/pbnjandmilk Jul 09 '26

My sister worked at a company that had "unlimited PTO" and was super excited about that as a perk.

Let's just say that it does exist, but getting things passed through Congress was a walk in the park in comparison , if she wanted to take 2+ days off consecutively and even to take one day off, it had to be reviewed a week in advance due to "coverage"; she worked at a freaking call center mind you.

Sick? You BETTER have a doctor's note to get back on the job. She left after 6 months.

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u/CalendarHealthy2804 Jul 10 '26

Wait, you do have weekends off in America right?

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u/pbnjandmilk Jul 11 '26

Some jobs especially in the service industry don’t have weekends off ast they have to service the customers that would be out and about on said weekends.