Is it a fake sick leave if I need a one day break to fix my mental health? I don’t think so.
Bad mental health is a sickness. If people have mental illness they don’t just sit there and deal with it, they go to a doctor to get it fixed or at least under control. I have no qualms in talking a sick day off to get away from it all when I’m overwhelmed. If my employer says otherwise, then fuck them, I’ll find a place to work where they respect that.
I dont make enough to afford a shrink, But I do get one day a sick leave per month to use when I can’t get out of bed.
Trust me, I would love to see a head doctor, But this is the best I can do right now
It doesn’t mean I don’t have mental illness it means i’m doing the best I can with what I got
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I’m a school bus driver. Our district has a policy that for paid holidays (e.g. Labor Day) you have to show up for the work day prior and the work day following, or you don’t get paid for that holiday. This is ostensibly to prevent people from stretching a three-day weekend into four or five consecutive days off by taking pretend sick leave. I was a white-collar worker (programmer) for my whole career before this and never encountered any kind of rule like this.
Why would people having a long holiday be an issue in the first place?
Well, it is kinda bad when we can’t get a substitute for a driver. The day after the Eagles won the super bowl last year, more than a third of our drivers called in “sick” and we had to cancel a bunch of runs.
Should crosspost this to !wiseposting@sh.itjust.works
Mini rant incoming. It fucking sucks that it’s seen as sus to be sick for just one day. More often than not when my period cramps are too painful to stand up, it’s bearable by day two, but I stay home that day anyway to make it more believable. It’s similar with so many other pain conditions. Hell, I have chronic UTIs that are often too painful for me to move for just, like, two hours. But explain that to your boss.
Do you have the original image? I need to make a version that says “shitter’s clogged” instead.
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I used to share an office with a contractor in the UK.
Their sickie policy was that you didn’t get paid at all for the first four days of sickness, but for periods of five days or longer you got paid the statutory sick pay rate for the entirety of the sick period.
It was to disincentivise the “one day wonder” sickies after a night on the piss or when you couldn’t be arsed going to work - but predictably, all it did was guarantee that people would be off for at least five days so they got something out of it.
Absolutely backwards.
I’m a school bus driver, and when a driver quits or retires they get paid for any accrued sick leave. The idea, of course, is that you don’t want people pretending to be sick for their last week or two on the job and leaving us with unexpected absences we have to find substitutes for. However, this payoff is $7 less per hour than our regular rate - so of course, everybody that leaves pretends to be sick for their last week or two on the job in order to get their full pay. It’s just such a fucking braindead policy.
Reminds me of an old office that changed their policy so that you needed a doctors note for even a single sick day. They thought it would keep people from calling out for a day for headaches. All it did was cause all previous 1 day sicknesses to be extended to 3-5 days because no doctor here writes a note for anything less.
Sounds like extra vacation days to me!
Cobra problem…
I took a single day of fake sickleave recently, to be able to actually work on a worktask i needed to finish, and not be interrupted by meetings
Take a real sick day to go see a therapist that’s psychopath behavior
No, that’s a cat in a toilet.
You can’t fool me OP, I’m on to you!
You don’t like skibidikitty?
I definitely don’t like that word.
Hard disagree. Try saying it out loud. It’s awesome.
I think I need “kitty” to have three syllables before I can enjoy that.
Skibbidikittidy
That’s numberwang
Agreed on that front. I just couldn’t resist the alliteration.
Our company has a policy that if you’re sick for 2 days or more, you have to have a doctors note to return. So faking sick comes with a price tag for me. Also, any time I’ve ever joked about being sick, I actually end up sick. I’ll just call around and get someone to cover for me, then tell my supervisor I’m taking a personal day instead of earning some bad karma.
I’ve also worked at places where the boss demanded a doctor’s note to return to work. I just said “No, I’m not doing that.” That’s always been the end of it. I returned to work once I was well and continued we all continued on as if it never really was about health and safety in the first place. Lots of places have policies on the books that are either outright illegal or unenforceable, but they get people to tow the line out of fear. If a few of us call their bluff, it’s better for them to quietly move on so that we don’t escalate the situation and shine a light on that policy. If word got around that the policy was unenforceable, they wouldn’t be able to bully the rest into compliance.
Moreover, not every “sick leave” is something that is contagious, migraines for example. I’ve even taken a sick day preemptively because I got to work and discovered that I’d have to work in close proximity to someone that was actually sick and contagious, but refused to stay home.
Also, if the company is requiring a professional evaluation in order to work, surely that is something that will be fully expensed to the company. I suppose that dynamic would be different under universal healthcare. But sending people that are recovering from a contagious disease that will resolve itself on its own would still be an incredible strain (and an unnecessary one) on the entire system.
Just getting a doctor’s note costs something in the US? Whenever I need a note I call my GP and ask the receptionist to write me one. The doctor doesn’t even do anything except sign the paper that the receptionist prints out! Charging for that seems crazy
I don’t think they mean an actual price
Doesn’t taking a ‘personal day’ cut into your days of annual leave you have?
Don’t sick days?
Are you asking if I don’t take sick days, or suggesting I don’t take (fake) sick days?
In Australia you can get a doctors note, legit, for $20 online
We used have that until some dumbass in our company fucked up our insurance plan. $20 for total telecare, it was awesome.
bad karma for being sick?
Places I’ve worked if you’re sick for more than 2 weeks (accumulated) in the calendar year you were fired.
How is this legal?
You can be fired for the colour of your shirt. So it’s not that surprising.
Oh, okay, it’s the US, makes sense now.
Lol, that was my thinking. That’d be super illegal here.
Or take Friday off.
I prefer monday. Fridays are often when nothing new is started and people leave early. So full pay for half day of easier than normal work.
Mondays are when shit is started and they’re often extra long
Thats my strategy as well. fridays feel awesome, i dont mind the feeling of a friday. Mondays feel like shit.
LOL, not everywhere is like this. Fridays are always the day an emergency project gets dropped in my lap that absolutely must be done before the next Monday because somebody else has a deadline they need to meet (that they’ve known about for months) and they need our work for a critical part of it, but they never seem to remember until Thursday night.
I’m sure it’s not an universal thing hah, it is just how it works at my job
Oh yeah, I was just venting. Every place has their quirks. I wish I had your lowkey Fridays.
Can confirm, low-key Fridays are a thing at my job as well
We pay it in 12 hour days during the week if it is busy. Easy Fridays make those easier
“If you don’t come in on Friday, then don’t bother coming in on Monday.”
“4 day weekend, woohoo!”
