Do you take sick days because you feel it is your turn?

Take them if I'm actually sick. Doing a safety critical job where you have to declare any medication when you report to work makes you very conscious of not being under the weather and tanking up on meds just to get through.

All about being sensible and environment dependant.
 
No, I take sick days when they're needed.
I'm sure there's a few at my work who do take sick days because they feel they've been at work for a while and are therefore due a few days off :mad:
 
Dimple said:
Go me, I haven't had one day off sick since September 1988 but it's inevitable it will happen sooner than later with all my ailments.
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Question: Is there any chance, no matter how small, that ailments have cropped up due to being overly stressed and never stopping working?

Aside from that, no I am self employeed, I HAVE to work, but luckily most of my work time is spent working at home, so if im rough, I have home comforts and can work from my sickbed - but thankfully iv only had a couple of rough days in the past few years.

The UK defo has the wrong attitude to work in general, its mostly work to live rather than live to work, it does our national health on average not much good.

I am blessed to do for a living what I love, so I never really 'feel' like I am working most of the time, just doing an activity I enjoy :)
 
No.

Technically I get "Personal Time Off" now though, which I can take at any time for just about anything (appointments/sick etc) without fear of reprimand.
 
Never take time off when you're actually sick, such a waste! :p

Crawl into work with the worst cold or broken leg and then when you want a long weekend no one will question when you call in sick plus then you can actually enjoy your day off instead of spending it wasted in bed :D
 
We are bringing in the Bradford Factor in one of the places I work to monitor and have a system in place to initiate action against 'those' people, you know the ones who are always ill on Friday /Monday :p

http://www.bradfordfactorcalculator.com/#bradford_factor_what

The Bradford Factor is a simple formula that allows companies to apply a relative weighting to employee unplanned absences (sickness, Doctors appointments, emergency childcare, etc). The Bradford Factor supports the principal that repeat absences have a greater operational impact than long term sick. (A weighting is the impact that an event will have on the overall running of the normal business. If you give something a larger weighting score, it has a bigger impact).

How Do I calculate the Bradford Factor?

The Bradford factor is calculated using the Bradford Formula S2 x D = B

S is the total number of separate absences by an individual
D is the total number of days of absence of that individual
B is the Bradford Factor score
The Bradford Factor allows managers to monitor absenteeism during any set period. Many companies identify a running year as an acceptible period.
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I've only even taken sick days when not sick if the company is unreasonably inflexible about taking holiday.
 
I don't do this ... In fact I tend to work from home rather than take time off if its possible for me to work at all (e.g. Stomach issues where you have to dash to the loo). Hell I was stuck at home for 6 months with sciatic nerve issues and didn't actually take any sick leave as I could do my job just as easily from the lounge floor as in the office thanks to VPN and VOIP (and my manager at the time was completely aware of this)
 
The first sick day I ever took was a couple of years into a job. I was proper ill and ended up being off for about 5 months.

From time to time I'll go in an hour or two late if my illness flares up. My boss is cool with it, I just let him know on the day.

I would never think that I'm 'owed' sick days. Never cry wolf..
 
In my department, barely anyone ever has even a day off sick. Other than one colleague on long term with cancer, and aguy who had scheduled time off due to a hip replacement, I don't remember the last time anyone has been off with a random sick day in the last 3 years.
 
There are a lot of younger people where I work (18-21 range) and most of them go out at the weekends and mysteriously are ill on a Monday. The company decided to offer then £10 to turn up and work a full day on a Monday because it's by far the busiest day for us. Couldn't quite believe they did this, but it'll be nice when I'm eligible for it as I don't abuse it :D
 
In my place its like sick rotation.
When You get paid crap wage and are not appreciated for work You do either than what You expect ??

I go on sick when my knees have enough of running to work and i need 3-4 days to recover them.
 
In my old place women got 12 months maternity on full pay and after that if they stayed on maternity their pay was reduced. 100% of them took the 12 months maternity and then handed in a 6 month sick line for post-natal depression as that mean they continued to be off on full pay. I don't blame them really but just goes to show that a lot of people will play the system to their own benefit.
 
I'm currently on my first sickness absence for a decade or more. That only due to specific medical advice post-op.

Last year I lost over an FTE across my teams due to sickness absence.

Who is the mug? I haven't gained anything from not having sickness absence in all of that time.

Basher said:
I find it odd how some people are proud of this.
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Why?
 
when I used to work for the prison service, I had a manager come up to me and say " you havent been off sick yet" I was like yeah cos im not sick, he told me to take a few days off and make sure I use my 10 days a year.

These days im too busy in my new job to go sick, I struggle in for 10 days with a virus and am still feeling like rubbish, probs should have taken a few days, but so much to do.
 
I tend to get more sick at work, damn classrooms :p I've not been sick here yet (well, in any contagious way), but I've seen other people teaching wearing a face mask - not sure if that's for their benefit, or the students'.

Only called in "sick" once, when I was much younger and doing a job I hated. It was worth it. Wouldn't do it these days. Plus, if I don't turn up, I don't get paid, so it's shooting myself in the foot really :p
 
Gilly said:
Why?
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I'm talking about the people who will go into work no matter how ill or contagious they are and try to make our they're hero's. In reality they would be more productive if they took a day off to recover and not infect the rest of the office.
 
This thread is ridiculous.

Haven't taken a sick day in at least two probably three years. Before that I was genuinely unwell for about a week.

Don't understand this concept of deserving a sick day.

Anywhere I've ever worked you don't get paid for being sick. And I like being paid.
 
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