Handal says employees almost always feel like their responsibilities and obligations are so important that they are not entitled to even a well-deserved and needed break.
Handal says an employee should always call in sick when the illness is still contagious and his or her productivity will notably decline due to the illness.
As one of the five top commanders of the FMLN guerrillas in the 1980s, Handal bears personal responsibility for having plunged his country into a terrible internal war that cost tens of thousands of lives.