it seems like that sometimes, but really it’s extremely incompetent people in positions of power (like inheritance)… and then, those idiots trying to tweak whatever they’re in charge of, and not understanding a damned thing…
so they look through some spreadsheets and numbers and decide sick days are an area where they can increase productivity and profit$…
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aka, Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.