Off work ill

I've had 4 days off in 6 months.

Two because of man flu/death, one because I was too depressed to face work, and one because I wasn't sure if depression was a legitimate reason for taking a day off sick, so I stayed off on the Friday and said I'd recovered over the weekend.
 
3 sick days this year, one of which saw me throw up and almost pass out on the way to work.

2 psuedo-sick days where I worked from home, so wasn't a tick against my file.
 
snips86x said:
Vary rarely. I seem to have a stomach of steel and bad food doesn't really affect me personally. I've only ever been bed ridden once other than having my operation. I know others are different but I'd get bored being at home.

If I can get out of bed, I can get to work!!
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Office worker perhaps?
 
I get paid 2 sick days a year so know if I pull a sickie I would be wasting these days if I had a real sickness, but generally over the course of 227 working days a year there will be an instance where I have a cold or a bit of the bottom end problems resulting in me not wanting to go in (usually its the travelling to work rather than the actual work that I want to avoid). Where my mum works they get 30 days paid sick and some people really do take the mick out of it.
 
I just had a letter of concern from work as I've had three instances of absence in the rolling past 12 months.

1 x 5 days last week due to a really bad infection I obviously caught at work (coughing up blood which was fun).
2 x 1 days in August and September

I don't think I was officially sick at all the year before that as I sometimes try and use up free holiday days instead.

I've never pulled a sickie because I didn't want to go in but I don't see the point in dragging yourself to work when you really are ill either. I hate people that come in to work with something contagious as it's just going to make the rest of the staff ill too. Where's the business justification there?

I've always found the concept of businesses warning staff over illness absurd.

"How dare you get ill."

It's a complete oversight of the fact that, you know, we're only human.
 
No, I don't get sick pay.

Well, I'm not supposed to get sick pay, but my pay cheque for those months was the same as ever. I don't think they recorded it. :p
 
People just generally do sickies in my opinion. Its usually the same old people with any old excuse not to be at work. Personally, unless I'm genuinely sick or on holiday then I'm at work. Some people eh :rolleyes:
 
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Is the problem with your nose the fact that you can't spell it? :confused:
 
We have someone who constantly calls in Sick on Monday and even admitted that it was because he drinks too much at the weekend and didn't want to come.

Even said it infront of our Production Leader.... nothing ever gets done about it though (hes full time).

Most of us are contractors though so we just wont be paid and they wouldn't care.

Havent taken 1 day off Sick in 4 years at my current work :)
 
In the last 10 years, I've only taken sick leave twice: the first time my condition required surgery, the second time an ear infection caused a severe vertigo which prevented me from leaving the bed for 3 days.

Sick leave is called sick leave for a reason, I don't respect people who take the days off to do whatever. One of the members of my team decided to take a total of 3 weeks, 2-3 days at a time, since the beginning of this year. She showed no sign of illness during her last leave, as she was having a laugh at the mall at the time, so she currently has no job.
 
The last time I pulled a sickie was about 7 years ago. I couldn't relax. I was too scared to go anywhere in case someone saw me, so I stayed in all day. I think I did some housework. It was a complete waste of time. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah there is no doubt some people who haven't been ill or not much at all take a few days off just because they can get away with it. Look what happens in the office when it's sunny or near Christmas.

However as someone who in the past has had more than 4 months off for a very serious illness and needed more but wasn't allowed companies in general should allow more paid time off. Obviously I don't want to bankrupt the company. There has to be a limit at which point the Government takes the burden.
 
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