Thread by @trentyarwood

Public service:

Dear Employer,

I don't understand why you trust your employees enough to engage with your most valuable asset - your customers/stakeholders - but insist they need a medical certificate if they tell you they're sick.

If your business is so precarious and without redundancy it'll fall over if someone has a sick day, you probably suck at your job and should reassess your business plan.

If you think your employees are liars who want to take advantage of you, you might not be nice to work for.

In any event, we're in a pandemic at the moment. You don't want sick people at work with you. They might make you sick. Or the others sick. Or your clients. That could be seen to be your fault because you wouldn't give them a sick day.

On behalf of the medical profession, we're all just a bit busy at the moment. We'd like to be seeing sick people who we can help, not writing certificates for people who will get better by themselves in a couple of days.

So why don't you accept _________'s word that they're sick, and if you really hate your staff so much, accept this in lieu of a medical certificate.

Sincerely,

Trent Yarwood
Infectious Diseases Physician