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What Do You Do When Your Employees Get Sick? : The Reward for Hard/Good Work is More Work (Companies Don't Give a Shit)

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What Do You Do When Your Employees Get Sick? The Reward for Hard Work is More Work By Adam Mundorf What Do You Do When Your Employees Get Sick? Listen, I'm all against people who call out of work all willy-nilly.  They are annoying, lazy and completely derail the momentum of the day. We are human beings though and things do happen.  I'm not a big believer in 'random acts' but I even succumb to illness once in a while.  I found this to be the case about three days ago.  I got some sort of sickness that has only now left my body.  I felt like complete and utter garbage.  You would think after years of overtime, sacrifice, flexibility and never missing a shift some sort of grace would be warranted........alas, none was given. This led me to rightfully so, think about a few things.  If I was a leader of a company and I saw my team suffering, I would descend from my proverbial throne to cover their butts.  I scratch their backs and they scratch mine.  No job is beneath me an