Sick days

[AdamEFC]

If you are a salaried employee, why would you not take days off sick?

I don't get it, it only benefits the company and not you

This, basically an extra 1-2 weeks off a year.

 

[chrismpw]

In 28 years teaching I had a week off with concussion (car accident) and a week off with flu. 10 working days off in 28 years.

During this time I regularly took on extra and unpaid work covering the classes of regular sicknotes who were away with a sniffle. Or worse- the young mothers who were endlessly at home every time their little Johnny or Olivia was home with a sniffle ffs! Equal pay my arse!

 

[anjelikaferrett]

It generally depends who you work for. Most organisations have a sickness absence policy that outline expected attendance. When I started in the Civil Service it was like a holiday camp. Everybody took two weeks sick every year. A number of people would mysteriously develop bad backs around the time of Cheltenham/The Open/Wimbledon or whatever other event they wanted to watch. Very very different now. My current employer ( still Civil Service) starts asking questions after 9 days sick in a 12 month period or three separate absences in a 12 month period. So theoretically you could end up with a warning after three days off in a 12 month period. (Admittedly that is very unlikely but it is possible)

 

[Blue 1]

If I don't work, I only get SSP, so I don't take sick days.

Disgusting, really. Used to get the first three days paid, then SSP, but too many dossers in production and warehousing were abusing it, so they rewrote everyone's contracts. I should've walked then, really, but I've been at my company for 15 years, and I get an unbelievable amount of holiday because of this. More than I'd recoup via throwing sickies.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

In 28 years teaching I had a week off with concussion (car accident) and a week off with flu. 10 working days off in 28 years.

During this time I regularly took on extra and unpaid work covering the classes of regular sicknotes who were away with a sniffle. Or worse- the young mothers who were endlessly at home every time their little Johnny or Olivia was home with a sniffle ffs! Equal pay my arse!

Don't you know that you are privileged by not choosing to fire a brat out of an orifice Chris?

You do realise that you personally are an oppressor because you don't look after any children and are freeto pursue a career free of children?

Oh, hang on...

 

[COYBL25]

It generally depends who you work for. Most organisations have a sickness absence policy that outline expected attendance. When I started in the Civil Service it was like a holiday camp. Everybody took two weeks sick every year. A number of people would mysteriously develop bad backs around the time of Cheltenham/The Open/Wimbledon or whatever other event they wanted to watch. Very very different now. My current employer ( still Civil Service) starts asking questions after 9 days sick in a 12 month period or three separate absences in a 12 month period. So theoretically you could end up with a warning after three days off in a 12 month period. (Admittedly that is very unlikely but it is possible)

LOL.

In one of my old places, they paid you out on a full pension, after 27.5 yrs, if you were no longer fit to work due to any medical condition, that was deemed permanent.

The amount of people, with 26.5 / 27 yrs service in, who developed serious back problems was untrue.

One fella, even tampered with his own chair, so it collapsed during a meeting, with him ending up on the floor, in front of his boss.

Which ended up with with him " damaging " his back, going off sick for good and getting a full pension lol

 

[Bkk Andy]

Snivelling up to seniors helps in this day and age.
I've seen some unbelievable stuff in our place for some to get on.
Unfortunately the fruits of that are beginning to rot.

Maybe I've been lucky but then I'm working in a multinational that has an enormous amount of diversity. I think that helps as people tend to look past the surface.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

In 28 years teaching I had a week off with concussion (car accident) and a week off with flu. 10 working days off in 28 years.

During this time I regularly took on extra and unpaid work covering the classes of regular sicknotes who were away with a sniffle. Or worse- the young mothers who were endlessly at home every time their little Johnny or Olivia was home with a sniffle ffs! Equal pay my arse!

Did they give you a little medal at the end for being a good boy?

 

[Lobster Johnson]

I used to work in audit and estimating so I saw how the rates for our subbies were calculated. Basically they built in an assumption of 2 weeks sick each year for every employee.

From then on, I made sure I hit my numbers.

 

[Charro]

In 28 years teaching I had a week off with concussion (car accident) and a week off with flu. 10 working days off in 28 years.

During this time I regularly took on extra and unpaid work covering the classes of regular sicknotes who were away with a sniffle. Or worse- the young mothers who were endlessly at home every time their little Johnny or Olivia was home with a sniffle ffs! Equal pay my arse!

Lol what a mug. They've had you off.

 

[chrismpw]

Did they give you a little medal at the end for being a good boy?

We had a change of Head who mentioned to us in a Union rep meeting that he had a plan to give a certificate of attendance to and staff who had a 100% record at the end of a year.

My comment was that it was such an insulting, patronising thing to do that I would make sure I was ill on the last day of term. He didn't pursue that idea.

Now if he'd offered a lambourghini....