This is the second job I’ve worked at that I’ve gotten hurt/sick from my hospital and was forced to use PTO.
Last year, I was bit while doing clinical work and sent to the ER. That was covered. But, for two weeks after I couldn’t eat, was vomiting, had diarrhea. They couldn’t prove the bite was related, so they forced me to use the little PTO I had (and also counted it as an unscheduled absence, lol).
Today, I ate at my hospital cafe and promptly got food poisoning. I’m a contract employee and this isn’t the first wild thing I’ve been forced to use my PTO on (see: my house burning down). Getting food poisoning at the hospital is its own level of irony, but how would I have even prevented this “injury/illness”?
Anyways, capitalism is a trap and we are in hell.