I know this meme of the employer asking his employee to come to work although they are obviously sick… I never experienced anything like this in my work life.
I have been berated by one of my former bosses for coming to work sick and I have witnessed another former boss yelling at a co-worker for coming to work sick. “You are getting us all sick! Go home!”
Also, you will get in trouble with HR if you don’t take the 30 days of paid vacation you get and you have a right to take 2 consecutive weeks of vacation once per year and your employer can’t do anything to stop you. (while I never heard of an employer who tried to, a co-worker of mine is now in this annual 6-week summer holiday)
Not everything is sunshine and roses but whenever I feel bad about something I hear or experience about or at work I just think: “It’d be so much worse in the US.”
Just saying! 
