I just hit 1000 hours of banked sick leave as a 17 year fed.

Y'all are crazy. Sick days are part of your compensation package, as are vacation days. I absolutely take days off when I don't feel well, physically or mentally.

Anonymous wrote:I woke up with awful sinus pain and congestion today and took a sick day. I feel guilty even though I am sick!!

Do other people actually use their sick days?

Are you "Boxer - the cart horse" from "Animal Farm"?



You are pathetic.

RIP to y'all but I am different.

I take all the leave that I am allowed to take. Sick, PTO etc. I regularly schedule mental health days and also take off time when long weekends come. I also take leave without pay if I need to. The days when I am allowed to WFH (one lousy day a week), I also take time out for lunch etc and I meticulously log my work.

I don't lag behind in my work and I work super fast and efficiently, but I never turn in work early ever. I document the hell out of everything that I do with my work. I am a paper-trail maker. I am usually done with my work within an hour or two of it being assigned but I submit it on the last day.

What do I do at work? Usually attend meetings, do my online shopping and organizing, use AI to write my status reports and documentation to CYA and create a bragsheet, take online courses to build up skills and pad my resume, job searches, do all kinds of opportunity scouting for my family and friends, and I am forever looking for alternate income streams.

I am not a "quite quitter". I am a "looking out for myselfer".

I mostly use sick leave for medical appointments for me or the kids, but have no problem calling out on the rare occasion I need to.

Anonymous wrote:I’m a preschool teacher and I feel immense guilt if I have to take a sick day. In my entire career, I’ve only taken three or four sick days and they’re only because I literally have not been able to get out of bed.

Please take the sick days you need to recover. We had kids in preschool for many years and we want our teachers to be well and not exhausted and sick while taking care of little kids.

I'm a corporate manager. I use my sick day a for me and the kids and Dr appts. I'm taking 1/2 a day off today as I have a few appointments piled up. It's glorious.

I am a teacher and I feel zero guilt when I take sick leave. I am not sure what county you all are in but we do not find our subs, that is admins job. We also do not make plans because they were already completed at the beginning of the year. Admin just pulls those plans. I am not sure where the guilt comes from with you all.

After YEARS of not taking them, coming in when I felt crummy, and accumulating (literally) 6 months of sick leave, I have started taking it more often...and have to talk myself out of the guilt every time I do.

People who come in sick think the entire world revolves around them and they are so important that the world will stop if they aren't there. NO. People coming in sick just make their colleagues sick. Stay at home! Start thinking of others besides yourself!

This. Sick people should stay home and not make other people sick while being unproductive. They will also likely recover faster.

I've never understood the concept of having a limited number of "sick days" in general. If you are sick, you should stay home. I probably average ~3-4 sick days/year, but that varies a bit. I stayed home for a week each time I had COVID (2x total, in two different years).

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an hourly employee. I work, I get paid...I don't work, I don't get paid. So there's no such thing as sick days really.

I'm sorry. It's terrible and exploitive.

I worked 10-12-hour shifts without a break. When I was sick, it was usually ER trip from work because of work. One of my co-workers collapse on the street on her way home and caught a cab to ER.
Ofcourse I didn't have insurance and employer definitely wasn't going to pay for it.
As an hourly worker, we didn't have a contract or even a working punch-in machine. I lost a lot of money to wage theft. I have $0 in social security statement for several years, so it will follow me for a long time.
I have worked with high fever and while throwing up in the bathroom, but not because I wanted to be a hero. I was afraid to be fired. I had been homeless before.

Please take sick days if you have them. Our work culture is so broken.

I’m a preschool teacher and I feel immense guilt if I have to take a sick day. In my entire career, I’ve only taken three or four sick days and they’re only because I literally have not been able to get out of bed.

I get 15 days of PTO (sick, personal, vacation) per year with no carryover. I use them all, of course. I took a day last month when I was too sick to work, which annoyed me. I'd rather use it for fun.

Anonymous wrote:I'm an hourly employee. I work, I get paid...I don't work, I don't get paid. So there's no such thing as sick days really.

I'm sorry. It's terrible and exploitive.