How many sick days do you get a year? How many do you actually use?

I'm home sick today, I was yesterday too.

In total that means 4 sick days for me this school year. I hate being out, but there is no way i could have dragged my butt into work. Damn stomach flu got me.

I doubt there will be any real repercussions for my absence, but I'm sure I will get a letter that goes in my personnel file reprimanding me.

I was only out 3 days all last year and I got one.

I'm not going to worry too much, but it makes me wonder how they handle this in the non warm and fuzzy corporate universe.

How do they "punish" you guys for being sick?

we don't get 'sick' days - we get 'paid time off' time that covers illness, vacation, mental health days, whatever. and we don't get nearly enough PTO days!

though i did stretch out my time off to the max last year - i took extended sick leave for two months and i had to take a bereavement leave...PLUS i maxed out all my paid time off time. it was a rough freakin' year.

this year i'm going to use most of my PTO for my iceland trip, and if i get sick the rest of the year, i'm just going to come to work and spread my germs.

Anx said:

Yeah see it's way different for me because I only have 180 work days a year, the rest we have off. We get 12 sick and 2 personal days...and they roll over if you don't use them all but they get pissed when you actually use them.

Sweeny79 said:

my job is kinda like that. they get really uptight if more than one person per shift isn't at work on any given day. i think we're allowed to call in sick twice per every six months or something like that.

but if you're sick, you're sick. get a doctor's note if you have to. they can't discipline you if you really have something wrong.

Anx said:

After 3 days they need a note, luckily it's friday and monday schools closed so I'll be more than ready for work by Tuesday.

check out my sick policy Kim.....

basically, we have to be sick for 10 business days before we can get paid HALF TIME. yeah, that's right, I have to be sick for a total of 14 das before I can get half pay. and you don't get paid for those first ten days, you only get half pay for whatever days you miss AFTER you already miss those first two weeks.

I've never been that sick my whole life

so I just go in and cough and sneeze on everyone and everything.

I guarantee I have the worst sick policy around

If I had a job, I'd be fired.

I'm sick 250 out of the 365 days.

jerseykrs said:

YIKES! You guys need an office union!

SureThing said:

Maybe it's because you walk around half naked all the time.

jerseykrs said:

who wrote your employee handbook - charles dickens?!

Anx said:

Sweeny79 said:

hurry well Sweeny

Mach said:

Thanks Mach

We get one sick day a month and they can accrue until we hit 60. I will never see the day!

We also get 5 weeks vacation

We get Combined Time Off (CTO). I accumulate about a day every two weeks and on top of that I get one paid floating holiday.

It ends up working out pretty well.

CarrieLee said:

That's awesome! Maybe Jersey should work for your company.

applekisses said:

Nice!

Sweeny79 said:

hell to the mutha fucking NO THANKS!

CarrieLee said:

I can just imagine the break room with you two there!

CarrieLee said:

Sweeny79 said:

Are you imagining me kicking his ass? Cuz that's what would be happening.

CarrieLee said:

Yup

CarrieLee said:

Jersey says go play in traffic!

CarrieLee said:

at least I'd have cigs

You're kinda damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you try and call of, they get all crabby and act like you're lying to them. If you go into work sick, they complain that you should have stayed home instead of making everyone else in the office sick.

If an employee has a long history of calling off, I can understand management getting on their case. They earned the reputation. But if you seldom ever call off, the reverse should hold true - they should trust you and be more understanding about it.

As much as I hate to do it, I usually try to drag my sick ass to the office, and wait till they see me and tell me to go back home.

Sweeny79 said:

i've been lucky, i haven't called in sick for three years now.. :boxed;