Real senator, or wax figurine?

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    In any normal job, you’d get fired by day 3 of no show, no explanation.

    Some jobs would just take 1 day.

    But it’s ok, being a congressman isn’t like an important job or anything, right?

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      15 hours ago

      In my company it’s like 10 days because they use this really awful third party HR company who are incredibly slow at passing the message along.

      One time I was off sick for 3 days with food poisoning and I told them about it on the first day but they didn’t pass the message along until after I’d already got back. They called up told me I had food poisoning 5 days ago.

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        9 hours ago

        In some positions, not showing up with no heads up, no explanation, can cost the company a shitload of money. Filmmaking for example, you might have a location booked to shoot at for the day, some important person doesn’t show up, you can’t shoot your scenes. And actors aren’t the only people who could potentially hold up a shoot.

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      16 hours ago

      You can’t just fire him! Think about the bribes and lobby money they invested in him. They would have to start at 0 again with a new candidate.