[amyjess]

Amazon's treatment of sick people is horrifying: https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/home/harassing...

I have an online friend who used to work for an Amazon fulfillment center. I say "used to", because she got fired. For being sick. She got food poisoning one day and had to take a week off. When she got sick, she put in a request via MyLeave. Two or three months later, Amazon retroactively denied her request and fired her because she went negative on UPT. That's right, months. As far as she knew, everything was going well, and all of a sudden she was called into HR and unceremoniously dumped because Amazon decided months after the fact to deny her sick leave.

[majewsky]

To me (as a European), the concept of "denying sick leave" is just bizarre to begin with. When I present a sick note from my doctor, there is literally nothing that the employer can do about it.

[chrisbennet]

I wonder if the people working in these warehouses can even afford to go to the doctor to get the note in the first place.

[wool_gather]

> my doctor

This is also a missing piece for many, many people in the U.S.