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“Working for a European company is amazing!”

I feel like any time someone brings up European companies it's to laud how well they take care of their employees and all the benefits and perks they lay on their workers company wide. So imagine my surprise when my company here in the US was bought out by a company HQ'd in Denmark, a country with one of the highest worker satisfaction ratings on the planet. A few weeks ago they enacted their first policy change. This change was to the attendance policy, where the number of sick and personal days we have was changed from six, to two days per calendar year. If I am sick or need to miss work for any reason more than twice per year, I will be written up and escalated to termination. Every company on the planet cares about you only to the extent they are legally required to do so, or…


I feel like any time someone brings up European companies it's to laud how well they take care of their employees and all the benefits and perks they lay on their workers company wide. So imagine my surprise when my company here in the US was bought out by a company HQ'd in Denmark, a country with one of the highest worker satisfaction ratings on the planet.

A few weeks ago they enacted their first policy change. This change was to the attendance policy, where the number of sick and personal days we have was changed from six, to two days per calendar year. If I am sick or need to miss work for any reason more than twice per year, I will be written up and escalated to termination.

Every company on the planet cares about you only to the extent they are legally required to do so, or less. If they are moving production out of their country to yours, it is explicitly to take advantage of your system that abuses it's workers for profit.

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