I work in a hospital kitchen preparing and delivering food to patients. I work for a third party company that contracts out of the hospitals so I don't work for the hospital directly.
Anyway, our company has a very strict policy on taking off and calling out. We get 7 “points” to use a year towards calling off for whatever reason. You would think those points restart at the end of every year right? Wrong. If you call off on March 25th 2024 for example, your point refreshes on March 25 2025. If you're late by over 5 minutes, you get half a point. At 7 points, you're fired. No excuses or reasons for why you accumulated all of your points. Your mother is dying in the hospital? Point. You're throwing up blood and need to go to the ER? Point. Your baby just got hit by a car? Point. Oh you have a doctors note? Point. They don't care. When you present management with a doctors note all they say is “this isn't grade school” and they expect you to keep working under the same conditions.
Not sure if this is normal or just a shitty company to work for.