Sick Day

[Starman]

And by taking it as a sick day, the employer gets the luxury of paying for it?

Sorry, but if you need to shake free for a day, come clean and take the hit on the paycheck and your workplace rep. Don't make the boss pay.

Just my opinion, take it or leave it. Lies bug me. Even the little white lies.

At my job and at a few other workplaces I've seen, employees get so many sick days a year that they can basically take for whatever they want. Sure, technically, you're only supposed to use them if you are genuinely sick. I don't see any problem with taking a sick day if you need a day off. Just don't cry when you are sick and need to come to work because you used all of your sick days when you weren't sick. If I told my boss that I wasn't going to be in but I didn't want to use a sick day because I wasn't really sick, then I think he'd be rather upset. If I call and say I'm taking a sick day then there's not really much of a problem.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

And by taking it as a sick day, the employer gets the luxury of paying for it?
Sorry, but if you need to shake free for a day, come clean and take the hit on the paycheck and your workplace rep. Don't make the boss pay.
Just my opinion, take it or leave it. Lies bug me. Even the little white lies.

Then your job must not suck...or you're insane.

 

[Greylock]

Then your job must not suck...or you're insane.

My job is great. I'm the boss. The one who gets insane sick day requests every day, and has to scramble, beg, cajole and work overtime myself to cover them. Then pay the people for not showing up.

 

[Mystery Man]

I'm waiting for the 16th. It's when we have our large group meeting where everyone in the IT department gets together. We have a 45 minute guest presenter, a "postive comments" section then a department by department update. By 4:00 I'm ready to vomit. I just can't fricking stand them!

Yeah, I may just start getting sick on the 15th and take two days off to seem more legit. Like I'm not deliberatly getting sick for the meeting.

 

[Xath]

My job is great. I'm the boss. The one who gets insane sick day requests every day, and has to scramble, beg, cajole and work overtime myself to cover them. Then pay the people for not showing up.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health. If you ignore the one, it can lead to the other. Trust me, I know. I work in the UMD Costume Shop, and we had 2 major shows go up within 2 weeks of each other. Everyone worked unpaid overtime; skipped lunches; stayed nights and weekends, etc. A lot of people got sick from the stress.

 

[Warrior Poet]

I'm the boss. The one who gets insane sick day requests every day, and has to scramble, beg, cajole and work overtime myself to cover them. Then pay the people for not showing up.

Hire robots. There's just the one-time purchase fee, probably some regular maintenance fees (I'm guessing they're minimal), but they never complain, never take breaks, never go to the bathroom, always do their work exactly the same way, never question management decisions or think for themselves, are always on-time, never have children or other family members to attend to, don't go on vacation, don't innovate, never have emergencies that arise, and never leave the facility. They may draw a lot of power from your local grid, though.

You could also do what I do, which is grow mindless drone laborers in a sophisticated vat cloning system and control them via neural implant that responds to electromagnetic signals sent from my secret underground labo—

I've said too much. Excuse me.

grabs vital documents, schedules plastic surgery, flees in emergency escape vessel

again

Warrior Poet

 

[mojo1701]

they never complain, never take breaks, never go to the bathroom, always do their work exactly the same way, never question management decisions or think for themselves, are always on-time, never have children or other family members to attend to, don't go on vacation, don't innovate, never have emergencies that arise, and never leave the facility.

Until they unionize...

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

My job is great. I'm the boss. The one who gets insane sick day requests every day, and has to scramble, beg, cajole and work overtime myself to cover them. Then pay the people for not showing up.

Then I think you need to ask yourself: If this job is so great, why are my employees trying to get out of it everyday?