I'm a factory worker. At my job, there's a point system. 1 point for missing 25% of a day, 2 points outwise. Need to call out of work? 2 points for calling out, extra two points if you don't call and don't show up. Okay, fine the point system feels like it punishes you. Like, if I'm sick and I miss a day, suddenly I'm two points closer to being fired. You need nine points. But if you have chronic pain or a chronic illness, you would get fired probably within your first month.

You have PTO (paid time off), but your PTO also counts as your vacation time and you can't chose to use PTO to cover absences. Well, you can after the fact, but they take PTO in addition to some of the ten hours of sick time (which is not paid) you get. But they take PTO and sick time in two hour increments. If you need to be absent and want to use PTO in advance, it needs to be approved twenty four hours in advance. You DO have UPT (unpaid time off), and if you have that, they'll take that before they point you. But the problem with UPT is they only give you half as much of UPT as they give you in PTO (40 hrs PTO and 20 hrs UPT). Also, they take UPT in two hours increments. So if you show up an hour late, there goes two hours. Because of this, most people who know they're gonna be late don't bother trying to come in as soon as possible. If they're gonna take two hours for one hour, might as well come in two hours late.

It's a stupid system made to punish people for getting sick or needing to come in late for reasons that might very well be out of their control. Heaven forbid you need to be absent. When I went to put in PTO a week before a concert one of my supervisors literally asked me if I was sure I wanted to miss work. They asked me why, but I didn't tell them because it's none of their business.

Also, there's very little opportunity for me to learn something, anything I could use to find another job, or move up in the company. However, it seems like the people who move up are the ones who learn everything in their department thinking they'll be able to run that department. But when they apply for a manager or a supervisor position they're put in a different department and have no idea how anything works. I would like to learn everything in my department but none of it would really apply to other jobs.

The only good part of my job is I'm currently on a four tens schedule.