Anonymous
Post 11/22/2017 09:26     Subject: are you required to take a doctor note when you use a sick day?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nope. I'm an adult who works for and with adults


Exactly. Seriously?


Spot on. Even though HR might require a doctor's note, our General Counsel has never had anyone bring one in. At this point everyone in our department is well established in their careers.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2017 09:22     Subject: are you required to take a doctor note when you use a sick day?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Only if I use more than 3 day in a row, according to the rules.

Same. I will drag myself into the office for a day on the forth day or work from home to avoid the doctors, then three days restart.
how often are you sick for 7 days in a row. You make it sound like a regular occurrence.

Twice in 20 years. I actually saw the doctor on one of the occasions but my manager prefered me working from home rather than getting on short term disability.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2017 09:11     Subject: are you required to take a doctor note when you use a sick day?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What if you are out sick with a stomach bug? I would never go to the doctor for that! For the most part because it's too risky being too far from the loo at any point in time!


I had a project manager try and demand a doctor's note when I was home sick with norovirus. It was right after Thanksgiving (my entire family caught the virus from a relative that came to dinner knowing they were still contagious!) and the PM was convinced I was trying to scam for more time at home with my family.

It was pretty humiliating having to explain to him that I couldn't leave my apartment to go to the doctor as I was pretty much guaranteed to crap myself before I made it out of the complex parking lot. I then proceeded to dry heave while still on the phone with him so I had to hang up on him because there was no chance I was *only* going to vomit.


Did you even report to the PM? What a little toad. I hope you coughed on his/her keyboard.


He wasn't my resource manager, just the PM for a project I was assigned to. This was honestly the least problematic thing he did. That dude was a POS.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2017 09:07     Subject: are you required to take a doctor note when you use a sick day?
Most of the workplaces that require a doctors note probably have a reason. At some point, there was a worker who was abusing sick leave, and in order to prevent that kind of fraud, all workers were then required to provide notes.

It's the standard bad-apple-ruins-it-for-everyone scenario.

I once signed a lease for an apartment complex that had a looong list of specifically forbidden actions including driving cars onto the grassy areas, bringing furniture into the unit via the balcony, and putting portable hot tubs on the balcony.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2017 21:22     Subject: are you required to take a doctor note when you use a sick day?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What if you are out sick with a stomach bug? I would never go to the doctor for that! For the most part because it's too risky being too far from the loo at any point in time!


I had a project manager try and demand a doctor's note when I was home sick with norovirus. It was right after Thanksgiving (my entire family caught the virus from a relative that came to dinner knowing they were still contagious!) and the PM was convinced I was trying to scam for more time at home with my family.

It was pretty humiliating having to explain to him that I couldn't leave my apartment to go to the doctor as I was pretty much guaranteed to crap myself before I made it out of the complex parking lot. I then proceeded to dry heave while still on the phone with him so I had to hang up on him because there was no chance I was *only* going to vomit.


Did you even report to the PM? What a little toad. I hope you coughed on his/her keyboard.