Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 09:24:02 JST simsa03
   The restaurant will close shop at the end of February and my contract is terminated accordingly. In March I'll have my cataract operation with four weeks of sick leave. There'll be no new employer who will take me at the 1st of March when he has to pay for the sick leave two weeks later.
   • Embed this notice
     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 09:24:54 JST tinydoctor

     in reply to

     @simsa03 Damn. That's a lot. I'm glad you're getting the cataracts fixed, and I pray to my dark imps that it goes well. Four weeks of paid sick leave? Bang! That's Mrs. Dr. Omed's jaw hitting the floor. Why is the restaurant closing?

   • Embed this notice
     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 09:47:46 JST simsa03

     in reply to

     • tinydoctor
     Yes, four weeks of sick leave. That's what you get with cataract operations when you have socialist health care and a still more or less working welfare state. In our regulations, the employer has to pay full salary up to six weeks of sick leave, after which health insurance sets in with a reduced salary substitute of 60% of the original salary. It's quite reasonable that no employer wants to hire a new employee when after two weeks he's faced with paying full sick leave. That's what's making my situation difficult. I therefore have to apply for unemployment benefits (a third less than the original salary) and, as I always had an income at the subsistence level, welfare benefits as well. A lot of bureaucracy, the mold of every functioning welfare state it seems, with enough politicians who like to emulate Milei and Musk.
     
     The restaurant closes because it wasn't worth the effort any longer. First the pandemic, than a construction site nearby, both reduceding the number of customers; then the state claiming back its support payments from the tim eof the pandemic. As the costs have been too high the owner of the restaurant who is the chef called it quit. Which is reasonable. What I don't understand is why he only now told us and not a few weeks earlier so that we had more time to look for new jobs.
   • Embed this notice
     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 21:10:34 JST tinydoctor

     in reply to

     @simsa03 The chef may have made have been fed up and made the decision to close on the spur of the moment. Having worked in the restaurant business, I've seen that happen. Or they have to leave town because they owe their drug dealer more than they can pay. Or the suppliers cut them off for the same reason. Restaurants often close suddenly. Only a few consider their employees' needs.

     simsa03 likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 22:00:46 JST simsa03

     in reply to

     • tinydoctor
     Well, for one, rules and regulations are perhaps more complex here. And as the chef says that a new owner is already at hand, then I don't think it has been a sudden move but been a longer process, i.e., weeks or months. Also I told him in November that I'd have the operations in March and April, so that he could plan ahead for the shifts accordingly. And, well, he did, taking the opportunity not to pay the sick leave. Anyway, fuck 'em! Like all the restaurant chefs.
   • Embed this notice
     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 23:06:05 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     in reply to
     @simsa03 That really stinks. And this part is the worst of all:
     
     > And as the chef says that a new owner is already at hand, then I don't think it has been a sudden move but been a longer process, i.e., weeks or months. Also I told him in November that I'd have the operations in March and April, so that he could plan ahead for the shifts accordingly. And, well, he did, taking the opportunity not to pay the sick leave.