Over at the New York Times site, there is a post suggesting that sick employees should stay home from work. You know, instead of heading in to the office and keeping their precious attendance record in the black. And, like any fake disease creator, they’ve taken a normal set of behaviors slapped a catchy name on it: Presanteeism. It’s just like when they turned sadness into depression.

What does the New York Times think they’re doing, trying to normalize that whole staying home when you’re sick, thing? I’ll tell you what they’re doing — trying to get you fired.

And it’s not just the NYT, either. Across the country, people are walking into their workplaces, hacking, coughing, and sometimes just plain puking their guts out. They’d like to go home, sure. But they can’t; because the corporate sick policy gives them just three sickness-incidents for the entire year. Use three? That’s a write up. Four? Start working on your resume, and try not to cough so much during your interviews.

That’s because sick policies are meant to eliminate the weak. If you get sick, you can’t go to work. But if you are sick more than three times in one year, you get fired. Over time, those prone to illness will be eliminated from the workforce, and only the freakishly healthy mutants will remain. Without adequate health care… well, I think we all know what will happen to the sickly unemployed.

So get to work!

Link via Lifehacker