Were they legitimate absences? I hope you don't get a serious illness and have to miss a lot of work. Because you may have a boss with your attitude.

I bet you get a gold star sticker too don't ya? Ah, incentives.

Keep working hard bruh you'll get that 15 cent raise!

I never miss a day. Almost six years straight.

I haven’t had a real job since 2015

80% is showing up :shrug:

How many times have you been employee of the month since you started?

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LMAO

Obviously if you are throwing up or have a legit fever or have been diagnosed with some communicable illness, you should stay home both out of respect for others and to allow your body the time to heal. But for a board whose members constantly make fun of millennials(I do to)for being wusses, there's a lot of folks in this thread acting like showing up to work with some sniffles is some sort of grave injustice to your fellow man.

Your sniffles could be my pneumonia. Keep your shit to yourself.

Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been MISSING it.

Nope. I'm purposely injecting myself with SARS and coming to everyone's place of work.

I missed work once. Worst day of my life.

How many days of work have you missed in the last year?
 

0

Either a lot of people like their jobs or they are kiss asses in this thread

I don't kiss anyone's ass.

Well you can love your job, but be a dedicated person too. Hey, if you're not a person who is sick, it should be at zero. If you get sick, take the time, few bosses will complain. But if you use your sick days as PTO, that means you suck, and bosses usually know when somebody's taking a mental health day (which should be PTO), avoiding work, or just plain using sick days as PTO.

Same for me.

We just have PTO, to be used for both vacation and sick leave. So this isn't a problem for us.

I try to save at least two weeks of PTO for emergencies. I've had surgery the last two years and have needed it.

I'd say about 3.</br></br> If you're sick, do yourself and your co-workers a favor and spend a day or two on the couch to get better and not infect everyone else with your cooties. You'll get back to work sooner and more efficient and not cause collateral damage in the process.</br></br>The world keeps spinning without out you.

We finally whacked a guy last week who had called off 13 times this year. He may have been legitimately sick for three of those days. I wanted to shitcan him a couple of months ago, but he'd been there forever and was well liked.

I'd see his emails. It's like he had a Ferris Bueller random excuse generator. :shake:

Myself and my team have the ability to do 90% of our jobs from home most of the time via phone and internet so maybe my mileage varies but I hate when people show up looking like the walking dead and then put everyone else at risk.</br></br>If it becomes a habit that's a different story but if you're sick, you're sick.</br></br>To everyone's health! :toast:

In this guy's case, I'm pretty sure that he and his personal demons have crawled into a bottle. His work performance went to hell in the past year as well. Had he reached out and admitted he needed help, we would have tried. But even on the way out the door for the last time, he assured us that he had done nothing wrong, he was the hardest work we had, and everybody was out to get him.

It was very sad.

In other words he didn't kiss ass

I get 10 sick days/year and am encouraged to take them all, along with 5 weeks vacation.

My company really wants us to take time away from what we do but it's nearly impossible to take that amount of time off, because of what we do.

Working from home, I don't really ever NEED a day off.

We switched from a vacation/sick days policy to PTO several years back. What a difference it made in more people showing up sick for work.

:spock:

That's what you took from that? Really?

Yeah, that's an apple and oranges different situation than using your sick days when your contagious with the flu. I should have acknowledged that in my response. You just happened to be the last post I read.

Hope the guy gets better.

Damn, that's impressive. I get 8 personal days, 20 vacation days and a floating holiday. Although they're maxing out the vacation days at 15 (after five years) for new hires.

And as the old guard retires/dies off, they're getting much more lenient with holidays. We now get MLK and Presidents Days off.

Still have to work on Veterans Day, though. God that burns my ass. :cuss:

Yes because he was obviously well liked but YOU wanted to "SHITCAN" him months ago

Yeah, me too. He's a good guy. Nobody wanted this. He'd been with the firm for 13 years. We wanted him to pull his head out of his ass, show up for work and do his job correctly. But it became obvious that wasn't going to happen.

That's where my company lacks, holiday's. Which sucks because it's a UK based company and they all get a holiday, like, every week. And I'm not really kidding. Those guys are off all the time. "Bank" holidays.

The 4th was a waste. Couldn't take the days before or after because shit's intense right now.

Because I saw the inevitably of what was happening and wanted to stop the bleeding. His attendance and poor job performance were also having a huge negative impact on the rest of the staff and the firm in general.

"Hi, I'm Bob. Have a look at my resume. You'll see it's quite impressive. I never take a day off. Not even when I'm sick. I literally come to work with explosive diarrhea and destroy the office shared bathroom. I am that dedicated."

Dude, you can't be taking time off due to a vice. EVER.
You can't come to work on a vice. EVER.

I used to work for the Chicago office of a British firm. Seemed like those ****ers were off every other day.

This year, my firm gave us the 3rd off in addition to the 4th. Couldn't really do anything with it travel wise, since the office was open on Monday, but it was nice. And better than having to commute in for half a day.

You probably did him a favor

I hope so. Years ago we had to fire another drunk - she got to the point where she actually came to work drunk, or reeking of alcohol. Unfortunately she never got better, and drank herself to death a couple of years ago.

That makes sense if there's only one.

If I feel that sick I just shit in a trash can or outside

I called in like 3 times because my arm was in a cast

You must have missed my earlier post. I lost over 80 hours of accumulated sick time when I was essentially laid off from my job. There was no reward for being reliable. In fact, I got ****ed for doing so.

Know your company's policy on sick days, most won't pay you off for them like vacation/PTO. And if they don't, use them. I can guarant****ingtee I will be in the future.

I haven't worked for someone else in over a year. Best damn working decision I ever made. Why I waited for so long to be free of bullshit I will never quite figure out. Days off come whenever I damn well feel like it.

I would highly recommend, if you do it at all, that you be very cautious about using your sick days for anything other than being sick. I'm not lost on what happened to you, and that sucks, but with your new employer there's not need to get labeled.

But **** your former company for doing that, they could at least have a policy that pays a portion of it when people are separated. If they don't they're inviting abuse when people think the company is struggling, and that might be the worst time for, potentially, large swaths of the employee base spending-down their sick days. It's just bad policy.

In the last 10 years I've missed about 6-7 days. Gout caused 4-5 days and maybe some other issue caused the other two.

Gout SUCKS!!!!!

Absolutely. They give them, so take them. Or lose them. I'm allowed to take a sick day for whatever I want. I just tell my boss I'm taking a sick day and she says OK. I can take 5 at a time and that gives me 7 weeks of vacation. That's a lot and no way to take it all really. But it's there.

Oh yea, and one floating holiday. Great for taking a long weekend for a holiday.

Typing all of this out makes me wonder why I am looking to leave...

How would your supervisor know if your sick or how ill you are? People can sniffle and snort and cough and I wouldnt know it from the plague or a allergy.

On 3/20/17, while finishing up a duct work job, I stepped on a stud in an attic that wasn't properly nailed in. I went through the ceiling and ****ed up my neck, back, hip, and knees. I've been on disability since. I had hip surgery 10/31/17 and will likely need 2 fusions in my back and one in my neck (still fighting worker's comp insurance).

Does that count as 0 or 365?

That's a life changer. :eek:

Buehler445 answers to no one, except for the Mrs.

That wasnt directed at you Beuhler445 was intended for Banecat.

I think that you get a pass

You are responsible for yourself. I am not your mother, doctor or nurse. If you show up to work then give me 8 honest hours if not stay home.

I worked at the same job for 33 years and accumulated several sick days. My last seven months I called in sick once a week. They had a pattern rule for abuse of attendance. So I would call in sick Tuesday one week, the next week Wednesday, and the week after that Thursday. then reverse it. Wednesday , Tuesday, Thursday as to not set a pattern. Monday's and Friday's were not an option until my last few weeks. This was a union job so I had the luxury of playing the attendance game.

Supervisor is me, man. I know.

Zero.

Honestly if I was in this predicament I wouldnt leave it to chance. Better to take care of yourself and not trust your coworkers on this.

I suppose I would have a box of these.
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Despite the sarcasm in your ignorant post, I have some of them. It would just be nice if people weren't such selfish douchebags and didn't come to work sick.

You are responsible for your welfare as an adult.

I dont see anything sarcastic in my post. Why do you expect your coworkers to know about your predicament? Also why would you trust them to care?

All of my coworkers know. In addition, I am their manager and will send them home. But none of them are selfish douchebags. It is your dismissive attitude that sucks. Do you give a shit about anyone other that yourself? Do you have any empathy at all?

I hope you never have a disease like mine, but karma is a bitch, so watch out. How old are you? I didn't get this until I was 49. It can still happen to you.

One more very obvious point you are missing. If you go to work sick and get others sick it is YOUR fault, not theirs. Personal ****ing responsibility.

For me personally, this is a bad year to ask this question. I broke my shoulder slipping on ice in January. I was out 7 weeks.

And I am an ex smoker that missed a lot of work due to pneumonia and other lung involved stuff.

But last year was good. I think after quitting smoking, I only missed work once, maybe twice. Just due to normal illness type of stuff.

As a kid/young adult, it would of taken a gang of thugs with baseball bats to get me to miss work. I never missed. My motto was Cant make any money if you ain't at work :D

Well goodluck to you and your germ free office. Are you sure when you leave for the day that the cleaning crew got past your safety net. How about the delivery person or courier or mailman. Also are you a Doctor are you certain they are to sick and contagious to be at work.

You seem to want to paint me as a unfeeling uncaring person I dont really care. But to me your coming on as a authoritarian a hole supervisor. I work at a large engineering corporation and have to constantly take training. I know I cannot send people home because I think they are sick. I can ask if they are ok do you need to go home. We dont have a nurse to be sent to and since I am not a trained physician I cannot make that call just suggest.

Well, if you think the person spreading the disease is innocent and the person getting sick from him is at fault then you are uncaring.

My employees respect me. They are also responsible adults who don't want to make anyone sick.

Then why as you said you have had to send some home?

My crews respect me because I was one of them and trained most of them. I also have recommended many co-workers for field manager positions at other companies that are very successful and making good bank. We share information and remain friends today even though we are competitors. Id rather have that respect than have my crews scared to cough around me.

Honestly you go out to eat do you assume its sanitary. Your wife and kids get sick do you send them away? I assume you take precautions and wear a mask I hope.

What do you have against being a responsible adult?

Why do you expect the world to be responsible for you.

The person who is contagious is the one responsible for not getting others sick. This is how life works. The person causing the problem is responsible.

And how do you prove that that person with the runny nose and cough infected you?

This is ridiculous. Your need to be right despite logic and reason wins. Good luck to you sir.

Whats ridiculous is you being a germ nazi in your workplace. All the virus out there in a 24 hour period your trying to convince me you know how and by whom you will be infected.

its obviously a higher chance of you being sick being in a workplace with some idiot who decides to go into work sick instead of taking a day or two off to get better.

Thank you to this thread! I took a mental health day and went shooting. Got my new deer rifle sighted in and ready to go.

At my company it's pointless not to use your sick time. I have over 800 hours accrued sick time that the company will pay out at retirement but only at 10%. I am going to make a point of using my sick time from now on.