Sick days off work: how many is too many per year ?

chaparral · 24 Apr 2019 at 12:11

Guys how many sick days off per year do you think is too many ?

And can there really be too many days off as if someone sick there sick and there nothing anyone can do about it

chaparral · 24 Apr 2019 at 12:15

Efour said:
The sickness has stolen your punctuation and grammar skills.

Something tells me these skills are not ever coming back even when am better..

chaparral · 24 Apr 2019 at 12:20

Just wondering as I was off sick with the flu over Christmas and new year and now am off with the flu again

chaparral · 24 Apr 2019 at 13:21

bigmike20vt said:
People on this board seem to be made of stern stuff and be way fitter than average.

That what I was thinking

I thought most people get the flu or a cold just about every year

chaparral · 24 Apr 2019 at 13:28

XeNoN89 said:
Flu is one thing but having a cold is not an excuse to not go in to work.

That one of the problems now as most the people at my work place used to carry on working when they had a cold but that has now changed and were told we must go home (Not come in) so not to pass it on to other workers

chaparral · 24 Apr 2019 at 13:38

InvaderGIR said:
Anything over 2 days or something requires a doctor's note.

I go to the doctor and get a sick note almost every time am off sick

chaparral · 24 Apr 2019 at 13:49

XeNoN89 said:
It's a cold, you're not exactly on deaths bed. Stop being so precious

But if you past it on to someone else at work that person then pasts it onto there family & friends and so on

chaparral · 24 Apr 2019 at 14:33

wingman said:
We don't get paid sick days at my current employer so unfortunately I would probably drag myself in anyway, regardless of what I'm passing on.

another problem is if there a chance of losing you're job from having to many days off sick then workers are going to come into work sick..

chaparral · 25 Apr 2019 at 09:43

AndyCr15 said:
Personally I wouldn't say a cold is a reason to not come in to work.

I agree but it not down to me to be able to choose if I can go into work or not
it the management at my place that will not allow workers with a cold or flu to come in

chaparral · 25 Apr 2019 at 16:15

Shocky-FM said:
Slightly off topic but smokers in our workplace have to be 150 metres away before they light up.... Is that reasonable?

150 metres away from what ? :confused:

Do you work on a garage fore court or some where that there a lot of petrol or gas on site or at a school or hospital, etc ?

chaparral · 25 Apr 2019 at 16:30

bigmike20vt said:
It does mean now a smokers break is a minimum of 20 mins which when many non smokers don't even have the tea breaks (that they should take) get a bit funny about.

A few years ago one of the non smokers at my work place used to go to management all the time moaning about smokers stopping for a fag in non break times so management fitted a camera facing the smoking area

chaparral · 25 Apr 2019 at 17:34

If you get a verbal or written warning for being off sick to much what you meant to do ?

1. Go in when you're sick
2. Quit you're job
3. Wait for them to sack you
4. :confused:

chaparral · 25 Apr 2019 at 20:42

SexyGreyFox said:
Man B who had a flawless record for 30 years had a day off sick (return to work talk)
Two weeks later another day sickness (verbal)
One week later another day sickness (written warning)
Two weeks later another day sickness (final written warning)
Three weeks later another day sickness (sacked)

5 days off compared to nearly two years.

That sounds like they were looking for a reason to get rid of him..

chaparral · 25 Apr 2019 at 22:00

AndyCr15 said:
Surely they do? We have to do Return To Work interviews when people come back. I guess not all companies will though.

At my place we got return to work paperwork to fill in as well..

chaparral · 25 Apr 2019 at 22:07

On another note

If a doctor signs you off work for say 3 days but you feel well enough to go back to work after 2 days
Should you go back after 2 days or stay off the 3 days ?

chaparral · 25 Apr 2019 at 23:32

bigmike20vt said:
Funnily enough I tried that once. Signed off for 2 weeks after a knee OP. Decided to go in after a week (wife works on same site was reason I could get in as could not drive).
I got sent home with a friendly but serious slap on the wrist that I would get a reprimand if I went in again as insurance was void
Signed off for another 2 weeks after a toe op so just enjoyed the time off for that one .
Gave up running 10 years ago and so no operations needed since .

SexyGreyFox said:
No you shouldn't but last year I was signed off for 2 weeks but I went back after a week and no-one noticed.
If anything had happened in that week it would have been a serious breach.
About 2 months later my Manager said she needed my sick note for my file and then noticed what I'd done, she wasn't happy.

Thanks Guys

chaparral · 27 Apr 2019 at 00:01

Telecaster said:
Not had a sick day for years, in fact none in my current job. I just don't seem to get ill. People regularly taking the **** used to really grind my gears, you could tell they were just using them as extra holidays as it was usually a Friday or Monday.

Yes my work place has had there fair share of workers that always fall sick on a Saturday or Monday (Saturday by far the worst for them not turning up)