COVID-19 Slacker Excuses

Monday, November 02, 2020

The Human Resource departments must be having a busy day trying to filter truth from fiction regarding truancy at the workplace.

In the Pre-COVID-19 days whenever an employee failed to pitch that would be accompanied by a sick leave from a health service centre.

Of course this was routinely abused by some errant workers who had turned sick leave into a monthly event like a pay check. Things have now changed and the HR department must be as busy as a cat trying to cover poop on a hot tin roof during these covid times.

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