What if, instead of taking sick leave, a coworker just quit? Do they have a responsibility to keep working at a job they don’t like, because you’ll have more work to do? Are you going to blame every person on the planet for not applying to work at your company to lighten your workload? No, if the company increases your workload instead of just hiring someone else, that’s on the company.
Assuming you’re able to see that, then suppose a full-time employee changes to part-time. Again, if the company places more on your plate rather than finding someone else to make up the hours, that’s on them, not your coworker.
So now, we can consider if a coworker takes medical leave. All they’re doing is reducing the numbers of hours they end up working, for lower pay. How is that any different from the other two cases? If the company simply puts it on you to make up the difference, it is 0% the coworker’s fault and 100% on the company.
How can you not see how completely backwards your logic is? It’s the company making the decision to make your work more rather than bringing on more staff. This is like, if a husband beats his wife after the kid makes too much noise, and the wife blames the kid instead of the husband! Maybe your company decides to treat you worse when they’re short-staffed but that’s 100% the company’s decision to do that and it’s also 100% the company’s decision to not hire more people. You’re making huge leaps to blame your coworkers and lick the company’s boots.
You’re blaming completely the wrong people.
What if, instead of taking sick leave, a coworker just quit? Do they have a responsibility to keep working at a job they don’t like, because you’ll have more work to do? Are you going to blame every person on the planet for not applying to work at your company to lighten your workload? No, if the company increases your workload instead of just hiring someone else, that’s on the company.
Assuming you’re able to see that, then suppose a full-time employee changes to part-time. Again, if the company places more on your plate rather than finding someone else to make up the hours, that’s on them, not your coworker.
So now, we can consider if a coworker takes medical leave. All they’re doing is reducing the numbers of hours they end up working, for lower pay. How is that any different from the other two cases? If the company simply puts it on you to make up the difference, it is 0% the coworker’s fault and 100% on the company.
How can you not see how completely backwards your logic is? It’s the company making the decision to make your work more rather than bringing on more staff. This is like, if a husband beats his wife after the kid makes too much noise, and the wife blames the kid instead of the husband! Maybe your company decides to treat you worse when they’re short-staffed but that’s 100% the company’s decision to do that and it’s also 100% the company’s decision to not hire more people. You’re making huge leaps to blame your coworkers and lick the company’s boots.