A million dollar company could just be a warehouse and 10 employees. I don't know why they are acting like it's a lot.

Yes, except "hire enough people". You can't staff enough to cover 4 out of 8 employees off from a combination of sick, bereavement, and vacation.

It happens. All you can do is prioritize tasks, make it work the best you can with the resources you have, and manage expectations.

If the work can't be rescheduled, and isn't worth paying someone OT to cover, well, then, it's not worth doing.

Right? I work for an actual megacorp and our policy is almost the exact opposite on every point.
Sick workers make more sick: don't work and feel better faster. Distracted workers makes mistakes and cause problems: don't work and take care of your kid. Rested workers work better: take the time around the holidays off entirely. Productivity is crap then anyway and with so many vacations it's easier to plan around a block where nothing happens than to deal with random teams having unpredictable delays. Car broken? Expense a Lyft. We have a corporate account and your ride to work is a rounding error compared to the sales visits.

If you're going to invoke money you should actually understand how big companies function and view money.

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe referring to a specific sickness a person has?

But more likely just skipped English class.

Seems no one noticed lets should be let's, as in let us.

I got it!

I once suffered a horrible wretch for an HR manager for ~5 years. When she finally got shitcanned, people were literally skipping through the halls in the engineering wing singing "ding dong! the witch is dead!"

I'm trying really hard to remember her first name, but I think my psyche has blocked it. Same vibes, though.

edit: and the name randomly just came back to me with a flash of horror: Jody

A million isn't that much for a company, especially if that's revenue.

I've worked with Fortune 100 companies that were total Mickey Mouse outfits.

I got sued by a big supplier over literally nothing, after I had refused to honor an illegal clause in a contract (which literally would have put me out of business, so it was a serious issue). They couldn't sue me for that, so they claimed I hadn't returned some rented equipment, which was a lie. But they said that I better pay up ($10K), because who did I think the judge was going to believe, some loser (their lawyer's word), or a Fortune 500 company? I didn't say it, but in MY county, I doubted the judge was going to favor the big corporation.

When we got to court, I had my lawyer ask me about my new supplier's inventory control system, and explained how the new system had bar codes, and every piece of gear is carefully tracked. The company that was suing me, couldn't even tell the court how many they had in stock, how many they rented out, etc.

The judge looked at the Plaintiffs, and said, "This is the most amateurish inventory control system I've ever seen. I don't understand how you got to be a Fortune 500 company by doing business this way. You expect me to tell this man to pay you $10,000, when you don't even know if the equipment is actually missing?"

She found for me, AND made them pay my legal fees. After two years of worry, it was one of the most satisfying days of my life.

Don't forget your coworkers you'd be exposing to your illness as well.