I rarely get sick, but when I do it tends to be pretty bad. Sometimes I can slog through the week knowing I can take Friday off for a long weekend to spend in bed getting better.

Back before Covid, if I had a bad cold I would stick it out at work until Friday, and then take Friday as a sick day. I wasn’t faking anything; it was because I knew that having three non-work days in a row (F, Sa, Su) would give me enough rest to actually start to recover. Taking a single sick day in the middle of the week wouldn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher. Some of my administrators have been suspicious anytime you are out a Monday or a Friday. Those are 40% of our workdays. At a point it is ridiculous. If someone only ever calls out Monday or Friday, sure, that’s a pattern. But if it happens sometimes….. not a big deal

My kids teachers always were sick on a Friday or Monday. One of those days, I saw a teacher at the nail salon.

How do you know she called in sick and wasn’t taking scheduled day off?

Teachers have scheduled days off during the school year? They have every holiday, weeks & weeks of school breaks, and all summer off. When I hear back how often substitutes are in on Fridays, yeah, it makes you question things.