Enslaved

Company rule #xx - Produce a medical certificate (MC) for your absence at work due to illness or discomfort.

Don't understand why companies have to treat working adults as children. When I'm sick, I just want to stay at home and self-cure using natural remedies or simple household medicine. I don't see the need to visit the doctor every time. To visit the doctor just to get an MC sometimes become more of a chore. You're sick and trying to avoid the air-con, but still have to drag yourself to the clinic and wait in the queue to be attended to. What's worse, some doctors treat you with the mentality of treating schoolchildren. They think you are visiting them just to escape work and not really that you're unfit for work. Won't that time be better spent sleeping away, letting the body recuperate?

We should adopt the approach of the Europeans. Just call to inform you are unwell for the day and your boss will exempt you based on trust and not on some slip of paper. A good employee would not abuse this trust while those who would are not worth keeping in the company for long anyway.

Stepping up to the bigger perspective, I feel corporate stifles one's freedom and enslaves us employees. You are bound to the office (or work-related venues) for at least eight hours a day, have to report to your bosses, report on your deliverables and get graded every half-yearly or yearly.

Such a caged life!