I’m Going to Disneyland

The Shitshow loves giving with one hand then taking away with the other.  When you interview with the company they brag about all of the benefits such as vacation, 401k matching, and of course sick time.   What they don’t tell you is that what the Shitshow giveth the Shitshow taketh away. 

You see, when it comes to sick time everybody gets 10 days a year. On the surface this seems pretty reasonable until you’ve been there for a year.  After a year, then every year after that the Shitshow takes away half of the sick time you accumulated that year and throws that away. 

That’s right, if you’ve managed to stay healthy all year long, the Shitshow takes away 5 days of your sick time.   So the internal optimist would say will at least you still have 5 days, which after all is better than nothing, but of course that that’s before you look at what the Shitshow does next. 

If you leave the company on your own terms before you retire you loose all of your sick time, flushed down the Shitshow drain.  If you retire from the Shitshow you get paid out a whopping 10 cents on the dollar for your sick time.  So those 10 days a year only pays out half a day if you never call in sick.  What a deal! 

Realizing this, I throw rocks every year right before the date they cut my sick days in half…I call in sick and go to Disneyland!  Additionally to help burn those sick days I also use a full day of sick time when I schedule my 30 minute biannual dental check-ups and cleaning.   

Because the Shitshow’s sick day policy makes me sick, I throw rocks.