Pulling sickies at work..

System

I never pulled a sickie. I would have felt too guilty. Even being signed off sick and being off ill there wasn't a day that went by that i didn't feel guilty.For me being off sick was always worst case scenario-last resort kind of thing, which stems back to being at school when i couldn't be off sick unless i was on deaths door.

Loz01

I rarely pull sickies (had 2 days off sick in 6 months) - but some people are notorious where I work - phoning our manager at 1am from the nightclub to say they wouldnt be in the following morning cause they're ill..!!!

Silaqui

I agree with you Aliasojo, I work in a school and students often come up to me in lessons 'feeling sick' or 'not very well' asking to go to reception to be sent home.

I'm one of those people who catches everything going and I'm a clumsy sod (so far this year: twisted ankle; couple of bad colds; migraine; tonsilitis x2) and I will have a day off if I need it. I've taken 3 since september; 1 when I couldn't put any weight on my ankle, 1 for the migraine, and 1 for the worse bout of tonsilitis. I always say that I can't pull a sickie even if I wanted too; I need my sick days for when I really am sick!

I know that teaching and other similar professions have a bad track record for sick days, but I honestly can't see why people would. I still have to be up to ring in at 7am, think of work that can be taught by a non specialist person, and email it in, not to mention rejig all the lessons when you get back. It's easier to just go in and struggle through!

My dad has NEVER taken a sick day ever (he's 50). He recently got made redundant and has been struck down with a slipped disc. Typical!

Mutter_2

That Polish woman makes me laugh.

"I will dismiss anyone who takes a sickie" Get with the employment laws here, sweety.

You cannot dismiss anyone for being ill for a day. END OF.

I have a feeling you are personally picking my cucumbers. Yes I do wash them well, in Milton.

Hootie19

I did it once. And felt so guilty about it, fretting all day about being found out, that I ended up with an utter pounding headache that I possibly might have had the day off for if it had developed naturally.

Soooo, not worth it. I didn't "enjoy" my illicit day off, and ended up feeling ill to boot.


I did work for one company though, who allowed the staff three "duvet days" a year, as the boss said that he knew what it was like some days to wake up and feel that you just couldn't face going into work. That was for a teeny tiny company (6 people in total) and no one, to my knowledge, ever used their duvet days. But it was nice to know they were there if you wanted them.

Lakeuk

Never done a bogus sickie, I beat myself up when I have to go of sick, this year I ended up taking 3 sets of 2 days of with flu which is very unusual (normally go years between), frustrated me that the flu came when kids came back to at school through out the year so I know where it came from, even though I always use the septic wash at work. I get a bit of ribbing from work at how I'm never of sick and that the last time (before this year) was by giving myself food poisoning eating out of date food. If I have a cold I will go into work (try to make it pass on quicker).

I don't know anyone at work who takes sickies, everyones too committed, some who go on a night out will prebook the next day as a flexi incase they're not fit for work.

Work used to not pay you is you were of sickie less than a few days at a time, but now they do which I think isn't very good as stopping people taking bogus sickies.

custardy

never pulled a sickie,if i am off i cant get to work for a genuine reason
unfortunatly my ongoing eye problem has seen me have more time off in the last 2 years than i have ever had off before

donquine

I rarely take sick days and I wish I did. I catch colds etc quite a lot (don't seem to pass them on though!) and battle on. I take such a long time to recover because I'm always working and don't give myself time to get better, whereas if I just took one day off and spent it in bed sleeping, I'd get better really quickly.

The worst thing is that I work with someone who pulls regular sickies amd who has admitted to me they do so. Without any evidence I can't tell management - all I can do is get more and more resentful. :mad:

iwanttosave_2

Because the sickness benefits are so good my work has a very strict sick policy so I've never pulled a bogus sickie. In 2 years of working at my current job I've been off twice, once when I damaged my back and another with D&V bug. I took annual leave when I had the flu. I can understand why they have a strict policy but I do think it encourages people to come into work when they're not fit to.

Kaz2904

We get disciplinary action taken against us if we go off sick more than twice in a year or more than 3 days in a year. I had 5 days off sick one year (3 separate colds when my daughter started preschool and we had an awful winter and no heating). I was sent to occupatioinal health and had to take DS with me and the nurse there just said about the article that had just been in the paper about parents with school age children getting 20 colds a year compared to most people getting 5. She sent a letter back to the bosses saying there wasn't anything that could be done to improve my health and I had a written warning for a year.
The most gutting thing was that I was the ward joke for having the least sick time!