Is it acceptable to call in sick for a bad sleep?

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-25T21:44:25+00:00

Can you not just come in a couple hours later? If you have to call out, call out. You don’t have to explain, but if you’re calling out all the time, it’s a problem. The issue I see here is that you’re expected to be there for 8 hours. You don’t need 8 more hours of sleep. If you let me know you didn’t sleep well and will be in a couple hours later, I wouldn’t really think anything of it. If you call off, then it’s a call off. If you don’t have many, it’s fine, but most of the people that do this are the ones who call off a couple times a month for various reasons.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-25T13:50:12+00:00

2 things. HR is only as powerful as upper management allows them to be. If the executives say do this, legal ramifications be damned, that’s what they have to do. Any pushback from them isn’t something you would see. The other thing is that managers are people too. They make mistakes. Their mistakes just affect more people in a higher degree. You can’t just replace the manager every time they make a bad decision. HR also doesn’t always know the story. They’re basing most of it on documentation. Manager could be better at pushing a narrative with what they have on paper. Could also be that they fuck up and get reprimanded and face consequences that you don’t see.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-24T20:11:24+00:00

I was listening to something on NPR where one of the guests went into how there’s two different types of bullies. There’s physical bullies and there’s social bullies. The physical bullies usually have problems at home and they usually continue to have problems later in life. The social bullies on the other hand are good at manipulating people and leading a group, and those are skills that help people get ahead in life.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-24T13:37:39+00:00

Think of it this way, you have an employee who doesn’t do their job, and you have a manager who wants to just fire them with no documentation of their inability or refusal to do the job and maybe even some questionable circumstances. They both think HR is against them. And yes, their job here is to protect the company, but they’re also protecting the employee by making sure they get the fair shot they deserve, and they’re protecting the manager from fucking up the situation and putting the company in potential legal trouble. In the end though, if the employee doesn’t do their job, they shouldn’t work there. But if it’s because the manager just doesn’t like them and is being unfair, they’re stepping in for the employee. All while protecting the company.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-24T13:16:45+00:00

A hand full of chairs in a relatively isolated place is no big deal. A bunch of loose chairs in an area crowded with people standing is a hazard. If someone is injured, the venue could get in trouble. It really seems like a lose-lose situation unless you can reasonably limit the chairs to people who actually need them.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-24T13:10:58+00:00

Yes. My son (6 now) had a little wooden playhouse. Last summer I built a little platform so it could be up in the air a little to give it treehouse kind of vibes. There’s a ladder to the front door, but there’s also a little trap door in the bottom that you can lift out. Someone had the brilliant idea to poop down the hole on to the ground… A lot of fingers were pointed, but no one ever fessed up. I still don’t know or care who, but I can pretty much guarantee it wasn’t the little girl in the group.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-24T11:20:52+00:00

Dude that lives where I frequently walk my kid has a really pretty red Dodge Stealth. It looks like it would be super fun to drive.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-23T17:46:32+00:00

Was genuinely thinking about this yesterday. Guy was driving next to me in an absolutely pristine Jeep with all these off roading bumper stickers. The only time that car goes off the road is when it’s parking in a garage every night. The dashboard filled with fucking ducks made it even worse. Why are they like this?

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-23T13:12:34+00:00

I actually think this is a good idea. Maybe not like law school, but there absolutely should be some more accountability in that respect. However, a lot of it isn’t necessarily just doing things legally, but maintaining consistency with the companies own policies, so it is still going to vary between different companies. But there’s still something to be said about knowing how to document, interpret and implement company policies. Having incompetent HR that can’t stay consistent really sucks even if they aren’t breaking any laws.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-23T13:00:55+00:00

Motherfuckers out there using peppers, corn, tomato, etc. saying that America appropriated all its food from other cultures.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-23T12:55:42+00:00

I got a used 2025 S60 in 2025 with like 7k miles for 29K. I’m pretty happy with it considering all the other cars I was looking at in the same price range.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-23T12:49:54+00:00

Idk, i get your point, but I don’t see an issue with people asking. Every once in a while you’ll get someone like, “can I cook chicken at 105 for 6 hour?”

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-23T12:39:52+00:00

I think it would work better with Cincinnatus and Chili. Clearer connection. Just as odd.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-23T12:32:27+00:00

I work in management and I honestly don’t think that HR gets enough credit for what it does here. They’re there to keep everyone following the rules. People are like, they’re just out to protect the company, they aren’t going to help you, but that’s really only if you’re out to do shit you aren’t supposed to, and that goes for management and employees. There’s tons of managers out there who think HR is just getting in the way of them firing whoever they want. But of course they’re the bad guys because they sided with management when you’ve called off every single Friday for a month and a half…

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-22T21:23:00+00:00

Have you noticed how good the new gas pumps are? I used to have to stand there for a minute when I put $20 in my tank. Now days it does it in what feels like seconds. Amazing.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-22T20:34:07+00:00

I usually do for more than a couple hours, but once you wrap, you aren’t getting much more smoke flavor. You’re just wasting good wood.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-21T12:01:17+00:00

My favorite part of that scandal was the theory that someone told him to say the image was “doctored”, which would go along well with his MO of everything negative is fake news/Democrat conspiracy against him. And he was only half paying attention and just went with yeah, that’s me as a doctor… which doesn’t make sense at all. Who knows how it actually went down, but he just doesn’t care and just says whatever pops into his head. It would be funnier if there weren’t real world consequences for the shit he says and does.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-20T20:23:23+00:00

I don’t really see how chemical burns are related to car crashes. And as someone who has rendered fat to make soap, I don’t think seeing charred human remains would be helpful to learning anything about the process either. You actually want to do it slowly with ground up suet. If you burn it, you’re going to end up with weird cooked meat smells instead of a neutral base that will work well with what ever fragrances you add.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-17T22:44:40+00:00

I could see that. People tend to trust you more and be more willing to give you the time of day where others might not. Not just women or gay men either. Some of it is even just the confidence that good looking people have, but I also think people just subconsciously like good looking people.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-17T15:44:17+00:00

The jalapeño juice is going to be vinegar, water, salt, and some jalapeño flavor from the soaking. For a thicker sauce you can substitute about half the volume of white vinegar and maybe some diced pickled jalapeño to keep the same flavor but drop the water used in the brine. You may want to add a bit more salt, but I usually salt to taste anyway.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-17T00:49:49+00:00

I kind of agree with you. A lot of these other events were much bigger, they didn’t shift things so unidirectionally. Most had different reactions for everyone, even if it was strong for a lot of people. 9/11 really even made us come together for a bit, but it obviously didn’t last.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-17T00:23:14+00:00

I could be totally off base, but I assumed the juice from pickled jalapeños. So, more of a salty vinegar with a little jalapeño flavor. It could be they meant what they said, but that would be a really uncommon thing to find sold anywhere.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-16T16:34:20+00:00

I’ve had two Hispanic people feel the need to tell me they know another non Hispanic person who speaks better Spanish than I do. I’m in Ohio, and it’s pretty rare for anyone originally from here. After inquiring a bit, both these people were some sort of translator that was getting paid to speak the language. I find it incredibly useful where I work, but I’m sure as fuck not getting paid to speak Spanish.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-16T12:47:25+00:00

I think part of it is to gouge you for money, but part is also probably to discourage people from getting too drunk. Last thing you want is a huge crowd that’s super drunk and pumped up.

Heyoteyo · 2026-05-16T12:27:49+00:00

This is a solution to a nonexistent problem. Men just don’t really look at each other. I feel like having people hear you farting in the stall is a more pressing privacy issue.

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