Antiwork

My parents always used to make me feel guilty about calling in sick from school as a teenager, going so far as to insist that the house should be spotless by the time they got back from work because 'I had the day off anyway' or to shoot dirty looks if I wasn't completely bedridden and say things like “I guess you're not too sick to play videogames, huh?” Like, no, I'm not at death's door here, but you can see I'm coughing and sneezing and running a fever and feel like garbage, and this happens to be less strenuous and more enjoyable than going to school. It always sucked to catch the insinuation that I was just faking it or playing up the symptoms to get some time off, as if rest was some forbidden fruit reserved only for the most dire emergencies, especially when the shoe was on…

I've had surgery that made my quality of life much better and has improved my health by a lot. So understandably I have a fairly decent gap in my resume because of it, the surgery alone forced me to be on bedrest for almost 2 weeks and the recovery time is still ongoing (almost a year later). I took this time to get further education and am getting my exams done next week, so I will be a bit overqualified for a lot of the jobs that I'm applying to currently. It seems like jobs in my area are either all part time, require only the education I already had or require the diploma that I am currently getting. Half of the time I get no response or just copy paste rejection e-mails. I have applied for one job that kept getting reposted for almost a month, a total of…

I work in California, and we just had a blizzard. I live in the mountains and we got hit hard with snow, as well as unsafe road conditions (ice, mudslides, etc). I’ve had to call out of work 3 of the 4 days I was scheduled because I got snowed in. I was advised by my GM that I need to submit sick hours in order to excuse my absences. What’s going to happen when I’m actually sick and I need to use sick hours? Is this even legal?