My doctor told me the same thing - feeling awful after the shot is the sign of a strong immune system. This is also why people that have had COVID generally have stronger reactions.
I worked a job like that (manager, different chain) they put you on “salary” so you don’t get overtime. You work as much as you have to to keep the store open or you get fired.
I have come to the conclusion that empathy is one manifestation of the inability to imagine a world different from what one lives in (or thinks they do), or the consequences of events or behavior unless one has gone through them already, several times.
"Can't be that hard living in a wheelchair; I broke my ankle that one time and I was on crutches for weeks."
"If folks would just behave around cops, like I do, they wouldn't have any problems."
"No cars in the hospital parking lot. Hmph! And they say the hospitals are full. Well, where are all the visitors then, huh?"
"I don't understand a single word that scientist is saying. She's just making it more complicated than she has to to fool us into thinking she's smart."
There is no question that in a sane society people would be allowed to take off from work, go get vaccinated and come back without suffering a pay cut. There is no sane person that would not see that as a win-win situation. For any employer that wants to insure their workers are safe and don’t die or have to take off lots of time when they get sick, it’s a no brainer. But many politicians and even some employers have no real brains.
A lot of things come into focus If one just imagines a sane society.
I feel like you are kind of mixing up two different things even though I agree with you in both of them.Empathy is tricky. Empathy is imagining the reality other people face and reacting to it realizing you too could easily be in their shoes. At least to me it is. You can even be selfish (but realistic) for example you may want a good safety net for all, because you realize you yourself could one day be in need of it. Also empathy is refraining from judging others based on black and white criteria, and understanding nuance. And remembering your own pain and realizing people other than you have it even worse. (This is key, I’ve known people that pity themselves so much they have none left over for others and think they have it “worst” so they don’t care about others)
Then you also have the thing where everybody is an expert and doesn’t trust REAL experts. This is tricky because too, some “experts” are full of it, but usually not the lions share. The world could use a dash of humble and a reality check. No, we can’t take any and every expert at their word and our own world view or ethics just bite it. But too, you have to pick and choose where you think they fall down. I am not a doctor, I don’t automitwcly trust doctors, but I do KNOW that I am no medical expert. I expect any doctor treating me to be able to explain his thinking in a way I can understand, if it involves a remedy. Or in global warming, I am a student pilot and have had to learn about weather for that. I’m not an expert but I passed my very difficult pilots exam. I don’t know as much about climate, but from what I do know I know that idiots that say “it’s really cold now, so global warming is fake” are idiots. I know they don’t even know what I do, but they also don’t know that they don’t know. This is the brave new world we live in. People that don’t have one foot in reality, thinking this stupid opinions are worth as much as a group of people that have studied and worked so much more than they have and don’t just use “common sense” and pretend that means something.
You own your own business, I’m impressed (honestly, not snark here) but also you can make your own decisions then. You are both employer and employee. If you figured out that you should get the vaccine, you don’t have a boss that will dock you for the pay. Or maybe even fire you for taking time off. I can understand that you feel like you would lose money if you took time off, but let’s get real here. As much as you might think you work all the time, if I watched you for say a week, I guarantee I could find several hours in the day when you taking off to get a vaccine (which is also a stop gap for you having to take weeks off if you get COVID, or even worse) would not impact your bottom line. Employees with a boss have no such option, in most cases. Either the boss is looking ahead and realizing vaccinating their employees is in their own best interest, or they are short sighted, dint give a crap about employees getting sick, possibly dying and won’t give them time off with pay and these usually pay so low that the difference could break them. Make them choose to risk getting sick or dying, or not being able to buy food, or pay the rent.
Your world is not their world but even you could take the time to do the right thing.
Of course my situation is not like people who have a boss, and my schedule is flexible enough that I got the shot the first day it opened for my age group. I am very fortunate. My gardener also owns his own business, it’s just him. He got vaccinated too, but if he was sick for a couple of days he would have had all of his clients complaining that their lawns didn’t get mowed if he didn’t show up. And he doesn’t make the kind of money where he can afford to not work for a few days. My point wasn’t to complain about my situation, I have it really really good. But not everyone is in a situation where they have a boss that could give them a day off, and I think that’s part of the problem we’re having
I got the vaccination and my entire family died of a brain cloud, my dog emptied my bank account and ran off to Cabo, my refrigerator started speaking in tongues, and my blood turned into spiders. The dangers are real!
What kind of trade secrets can a sandwich shop possibly have? It’s not like it’s hard to reverse engineer a gam sandwich.
Every time you go to a restaurant there is a pretty decent chance someone working there is sick because taking a day off means no pay.
My doctor told me the same thing - feeling awful after the shot is the sign of a strong immune system. This is also why people that have had COVID generally have stronger reactions.
I worked a job like that (manager, different chain) they put you on “salary” so you don’t get overtime. You work as much as you have to to keep the store open or you get fired.
…and profit sharing? No.
I have come to the conclusion that empathy is one manifestation of the inability to imagine a world different from what one lives in (or thinks they do), or the consequences of events or behavior unless one has gone through them already, several times.
"Can't be that hard living in a wheelchair; I broke my ankle that one time and I was on crutches for weeks."
"If folks would just behave around cops, like I do, they wouldn't have any problems."
"No cars in the hospital parking lot. Hmph! And they say the hospitals are full. Well, where are all the visitors then, huh?"
"I don't understand a single word that scientist is saying. She's just making it more complicated than she has to to fool us into thinking she's smart."
I keep running into these:https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The trade secret is in finding a reliable source for the meatiest gams, while simultaneously skirting the law.
I eat a lot of fruit and veggies during the summer months. I'm basically 98% zucchini at this point in the year, so I should be safe from the latter.
Cruelty may be involved, but I suspect mainly they don’t see those people as being people. Certainly not worth consideration.
There is no question that in a sane society people would be allowed to take off from work, go get vaccinated and come back without suffering a pay cut. There is no sane person that would not see that as a win-win situation. For any employer that wants to insure their workers are safe and don’t die or have to take off lots of time when they get sick, it’s a no brainer. But many politicians and even some employers have no real brains.
A lot of things come into focus If one just imagines a sane society.
I feel like you are kind of mixing up two different things even though I agree with you in both of them.Empathy is tricky. Empathy is imagining the reality other people face and reacting to it realizing you too could easily be in their shoes. At least to me it is. You can even be selfish (but realistic) for example you may want a good safety net for all, because you realize you yourself could one day be in need of it. Also empathy is refraining from judging others based on black and white criteria, and understanding nuance. And remembering your own pain and realizing people other than you have it even worse. (This is key, I’ve known people that pity themselves so much they have none left over for others and think they have it “worst” so they don’t care about others)
Then you also have the thing where everybody is an expert and doesn’t trust REAL experts. This is tricky because too, some “experts” are full of it, but usually not the lions share. The world could use a dash of humble and a reality check. No, we can’t take any and every expert at their word and our own world view or ethics just bite it. But too, you have to pick and choose where you think they fall down. I am not a doctor, I don’t automitwcly trust doctors, but I do KNOW that I am no medical expert. I expect any doctor treating me to be able to explain his thinking in a way I can understand, if it involves a remedy. Or in global warming, I am a student pilot and have had to learn about weather for that. I’m not an expert but I passed my very difficult pilots exam. I don’t know as much about climate, but from what I do know I know that idiots that say “it’s really cold now, so global warming is fake” are idiots. I know they don’t even know what I do, but they also don’t know that they don’t know. This is the brave new world we live in. People that don’t have one foot in reality, thinking this stupid opinions are worth as much as a group of people that have studied and worked so much more than they have and don’t just use “common sense” and pretend that means something.
Not in complex systems.
Hubris is the downfall of all of us.
You own your own business, I’m impressed (honestly, not snark here) but also you can make your own decisions then. You are both employer and employee. If you figured out that you should get the vaccine, you don’t have a boss that will dock you for the pay. Or maybe even fire you for taking time off. I can understand that you feel like you would lose money if you took time off, but let’s get real here. As much as you might think you work all the time, if I watched you for say a week, I guarantee I could find several hours in the day when you taking off to get a vaccine (which is also a stop gap for you having to take weeks off if you get COVID, or even worse) would not impact your bottom line. Employees with a boss have no such option, in most cases. Either the boss is looking ahead and realizing vaccinating their employees is in their own best interest, or they are short sighted, dint give a crap about employees getting sick, possibly dying and won’t give them time off with pay and these usually pay so low that the difference could break them. Make them choose to risk getting sick or dying, or not being able to buy food, or pay the rent.
Your world is not their world but even you could take the time to do the right thing.
Of course my situation is not like people who have a boss, and my schedule is flexible enough that I got the shot the first day it opened for my age group. I am very fortunate. My gardener also owns his own business, it’s just him. He got vaccinated too, but if he was sick for a couple of days he would have had all of his clients complaining that their lawns didn’t get mowed if he didn’t show up. And he doesn’t make the kind of money where he can afford to not work for a few days. My point wasn’t to complain about my situation, I have it really really good. But not everyone is in a situation where they have a boss that could give them a day off, and I think that’s part of the problem we’re having
He believed his own BS?
I got the vaccination and my entire family died of a brain cloud, my dog emptied my bank account and ran off to Cabo, my refrigerator started speaking in tongues, and my blood turned into spiders. The dangers are real!
A manager at a burger place was paid salary and expected to cover missed shifts without any extra pay. Big savings for the company.
After working 24 hours and no relief in sight, he quit and got a supervisor job at a place that closed at night.