Three days a year is sadistic! Corporate America’s attitude toward missing work for illness is so backward. There are entire Twitter threads of non-Americans expressing shock that Americans’ sick days are limited; in other western nations, they simply…stay home if they’re sick. The “perfect attendance” awards given to children in grade school set us up for a lifetime of believing missing work for health reasons is unacceptable and that never taking days off is something to aspire to; it’s breathtakingly ableist and rooted in all that is toxic about capitalism.