Pulling sickies at work..

zara*elise

If I don't work, I don't get paid. Simple as! Saying that, I do take days off when I need them, eg if I feel a cold is coming and I'm burned out I'd rather take the day off, do nothing, then go back to work refreshed.

darich

I've been working full time for 20years next month.
I've never had a sickie that wasn't genuine.
My sister has been working around half the time I have and she's had several.

I don't want this to go off track ...but she works in private sector.....I'm public.

faithcecilia

I always feel guitly calling in genuinely sick, let alone a sickie! There was a year though, when my boss's daughter had just started nursey, that the whole team wished SHE would take some sick time - eact time the child caught cold, mum did, then the whole team did, never had so many colds my whole life!

*Vikki*

I havent had a day off sick all year, but the person I work with has had about 40 plus days off for various reasons. Colds, low blood pressure mainly. This person still gets full pay when off sick and nothing done to said person. Do I get any thanks for having no sick days in over a year? Nope, makes you think why bother?

Apricot

I work for a small company & so even when I really am too ill to go to work I feel awful for not going in. Don't think I could pull a sickie - what would happen if I were really ill the following week?

I do know people who regularly pull sickies - one woman I know works for the council and regularly gets herself signed off for 4 weeks at a time. She also once told me if I was going to pull a sickie make it at least 2 days as it looks more believable!

BitterAndTwisted

lostinrates wrote: »

last night I got ringworm from somewhere...noone in my house has it or athletes foot, all my animals are fine.

LIR, it's not unknown for people to catch ringworm from fence-posts which farm animals have been scratching on. Where have you got it : hands, face? It can also be caught from airborne spores, I understand.

Back to the sickies: I believe I must have been a Christian Scientist in a previous life as I disapprove completely of people throwing sickies especially if they imagine everyone else is going to put their shoulders to the wheel to get their damned work done. Quite recently I was working for a firm where not one single person in my office of a dozen was at their desk every working-day, week in and week out. Always on Fridays and Mondays: I'd have sacked the lot of them or at least not paid them. Thus spaketh the woman who has had one a half (genuine) days off sick in the last nine years.

lostinrates

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

LIR, it's not unknown for people to catch ringworm from fence-posts which farm animals have been scratching on. Where have you got it : hands, face? It can also be caught from airborne spores, I understand.
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Its on the front of my leg, above ankle...:o , about four/five inches up. I'm putting it down to ''one of those things''...:o

aliasojo

I think we're raising a whole new generation of people who will pull a sickie at the drop of a hat.

Years ago, my eldest two had to be practically dying before they were allowed to stay off school, these days they get sent home if you send them to school with as much as a sniffle, I kid you not. We get letters sent home regularly telling us to keep our child home at the first sign of a cough or a cold, if a child goes to school anyway, he or she will be sent home.

It's one extreme to the other, but the problem with todays' policy is that it teaches a child that any sign of illness = home time.

My OH has gone to work on many an occasion when he should have stayed home in bed just because he didn't want to let anyone down, he wouldn't pull a sickie even if you paid him.

twinklie

I've had 17 days off sick this year!!! :eek: I've never been off so much in my life. I am a teacher and ended up with a week off for a horrid sickness bug I picked up back a week, then 2 weeks off with the flu (I'm asthmatic so get it BAD) and then another 2 when I trapped a nerve in my neck and couldn't drive.

I'd rather go in than not though but am conscious of passing it on.

purple12

I feel too guilty about it . But I do now, more than I did, take days off when I am sick rather than struggle back into work. I realised I do heal quicker if I rest and then it's better all round - no spluttering over people and I'm back at work sooner.
It can be frustrating when there is a 'sickie' culture in the office - although I try not to compare myself to other people. The only other time I took additional time was when my dad died and I was only allowed compassionate leave for three days but I asked my manager to take a couple of extra days as sick days as I was in no fit state to work. It was out in the open though and if she'd have said no, I would have gone to work (although honestly, I wasn't truly fit for anything for those days.. as my mother died when i was a very young so my dad brought me up alone).