What is your employer's attitude to sick days?

[Toaster]

I hope not, I'd rather have a non-bitch filled life.

[Trudes]

Ain't life a bitch?

It's even worse when you've had a holiday planned for months and months and you get deathly ill the day before you go!

Hell yeah! That always happens to me, apparantly it has something to do with the body winding down and getting rid of toxins. Doesn't help much when your first real holiday in two years is spent in Sydney feeling like shit and not being able to taste a thing, eh!

[Toaster]

Hell yeah! That always happens to me, apparantly it has something to do with the body winding down and getting rid of toxins. Doesn't help much when your first real holiday in two years is spent in Sydney feeling like shit and not being able to taste a thing, eh!

Stink for you being sick on holiday My Doc has told me my liver needs 6 months of no alcohol.... yeah right. Lots of exercise and healthy eating too.... I can do that, but no alcohol??!! Anyone have a gun so I can put myself down right now?

[Trudes]

Due to my line of work (Nanny, or Child Care Technician, as my hubby calls it), if I'm sick and can't come to work, it's a major inconvenience to my boss, as she can't go to work, meetings have to be rescheduled etc etc. So I tend to spend sick days at home feeling guilty for not toughing it out and going to work, and often I do just have to tough it out, go to work and hang about feeling crap. I also pick up on a touch of "oh having a mental health day eh" tone from my employers too, which is not surprising considering every time they decide they can't be arsed going to work they use me as a scapegoat, by calling work and saying the nanny's sick so they have to stay home!!

[sisterecho]

My Doc has told me my liver needs 6 months of no alcohol

I had to do that in my last year of Uni. I blame it on that cheap Kristov vodka which was the only thing I could afford at the time.

Its hard but the long-term benefits outweigh the temporary torture of forced sobriety.

[Toaster]

I had to do that in my last year of Uni. I blame it on that cheap Kristov vodka which was the only thing I could afford at the time.

Its hard but the long-term benefits outweigh the temporary torture of forced sobriety.

Yep - it was a basic warning - keep fit and healthy or face the consequences of a busy life and being mid-thirties!

[magicfairy]

I've taken about 5 days sick leave total in the last 11 years!!
As I teach 5 day computer system courses, so if I take even 1 day off, the whole course has to be cancelled if no one else can teach it (usually they can't) students from out of town have to cancel hotels, change flights, course has to be rescheduled - huge drama.
So generally unless I am too sick to teach I dose myself up with chemicals and soldier on. More for the students than the employer.

[Nasty]

I am a team leader and keep an eye on my staff to make sure if they are unwell they go home .. and then redistribute work to make sure things get done when they need to. I personally believe that if you are sick go home and be sick .. don't give me ya germs ... but also you have to watch for other kinds of sick e.g. mental health cos that makes people way worse than germs do.

[sisterecho]

and then redistribute work to make sure things get done when they need to.

Well I wish you were my team leader then! That's the worst part of having a sick day, coming back to deal with the mess that built up while you were lying in bed, blissfully unaware.

[tri boy]

I have a crappy job loading containers with 28kg cartons at high speed all day, but I have pulled some muscles in my shoulder so have scored 4 days off

they went all queer about it though, even though I pointed outh that I have like 90hours of sick leave accumulated, that I havn't used, but noooooooooo thats not good enough....Fuck I hate my job

Your NOT sick. Your company is flogging you without consideration for your wellbeing.
Request/demand an onsite work assessment related to the duties that you do. I have been medically retired from the mechanical industry because my previous employers paid scant interest to my requests to have work conditions brought in line with standard practise. 25yrs of experience couldn't prevent these injuries because of there f**ked attitude.
Don't let it happen to you.

[slinky]

I prefer not to waste my sick day allowance by actually being sick. Sick days are for riding. When I'm sick I go to work. Selfish I know.

thats a good point.
leave sick days for riding.
Or if you hospitalised and seriously can't go to work

[Stirts]

thats a good point.
leave sick days for riding.
Or if you hospitalised and seriously can't go to work

Heee heeee me "sick" today. I go to work when I am actually sick (not very often) and leave my sick days....well....now that I have bike.... to ride. Which I am doing now...well not right now....coffee break...hmmmmm

We are allocated a certain amount of sick days - use it or lose it....I am havin a mental health day....if I don't ride today...I will go mental!

[timorang]

I have a crappy job loading containers with 28kg cartons at high speed all day, but I have pulled some muscles in my shoulder so have scored 4 days off

they went all queer about it though, even though I pointed outh that I have like 90hours of sick leave accumulated, that I havn't used, but noooooooooo thats not good enough....I hate my job

If you want a change and are genuinely a good employee make contact with these people:

ARA
We are winepeople on a path
to create a new world standard in wine

Bridie Johnstone
HR Officer
mb: +64 21 487 257, dd: +64 3 572 6020

WINEGROWERS OF ARA LTD.
1003 State Highway 63, PO Box 77, Renwick, New Zealand
Tel: +64 3 572 6020, Fax: +64 3 572 7298

or PM me if you would like to know more.

[Kflasher]

stay home dial up via VPN and carry on working.
Office with over 260 persons on one floor, sickness spreads very quickly, but apparently you are more infectious days before you get the symptoms, so the spread had already started.

[Gremlin]

Haven't had a sick day yet in about a year...

My job is a bit different tho, I work when needed, so sometimes its long hours, hard work, so when it gets quiet, I just take a day off to get personal stuff done etc. Can also do any remote work from home. I love the flexibility