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Anonymous wrote:Don’t care. MYOB

Well I work in a field where it IS my business when people call in sick. When a bunch of people call out on a Friday/Tuesday before/after a holiday, it means more work for me and last minute cancellations for clients. So it could affect you too-imagine showing up for surgery and it gets cancelled at the last minute because so many people called out. Or dropping your kid off at school and getting turned away because there aren't enough staff.

I would never schedule surgery for a Friday - who does that? That's just not thinking things through.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

She told kids she was sick and was in bed.

^correction: and spent the day in bed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

She told kids she was sick and was in bed.

I once worked for a business that gave me 2 weeks of vacation a year , and one sick day every three months. I could not use vacation days for sick days and I could not “plan” a sick day in advance for, say, a routine doctors visit. The sick days were also “use it or lose it”. It baffled me. For many reasons. But mainly it baffled me that they were forcing me to lie and say I was sick, an hour before the work day started, in order to use my day off. Which was by far the most disruptive way to do it FOR THE COMPANY! So I’d schedule my mammogram, wait till the morning of, and call in sick with the flu. To go to my mammogram. That I could have so, so easily told them about weeks in advance so they could arrange my schedule appropriately (I was seeing patients and they’d have to be canceled. I am not joking.)

Anonymous wrote:When I worked in HR, we kept track of everyone who called in sick on a day before or after a three-day weekend.

That list was used when we had reductions in force.

Lol. Was it used to evaluate why your company had such a bad PTO policy that workers called in sick before long weekends as opposed to planning in advance to take that day off/ which would clearly be less disruptive? Did you guys ask yourselves why your workers had to resort to pretending to be sick in order to have a vacation?

Nobody cares about this. What's more frustrating is when you have a busy day scheduled for everyone (think no lunch until around 2pm) and someone who was perfectly fine at 5 pm the previous day calls out.

Are you this individual’s supervisor?

Anonymous wrote:

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?

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.

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I know I can’t say anything, but it’s fishy that someone gets sick on a Friday before a long weekend…

It means that person goes on a fishing trip while your work is doubled. Or could be that the stomach virus is on schedule.

My old office had probably never cleaned their ducts or had mold behind the walls, and so as the week went on, I was generally feeling worse and worse. So I tended to call out more on Fridays because my allergies and headaches were just awful. I reported it to the health and safety team and they said “nothing we can do”.

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

Anonymous wrote:Yes, if it’s a pattern. We used to have huge coverage issues around holidays due to people calling in sick. Our field has strict ratios that we have to follow so mass callouts are a big problem and would lead to last minute closures for people depending on us for services. Then my company put a policy in place where if you call out for your scheduled shift before/after a holiday, you don’t get paid for the holiday, and have to use leave instead. Magically solved the problem immediately. (If you are out on pre-approved leave it’s fine, the policy only covers call outs.)

Ridiculous. People do get sick around holidays, especially since Covid hit. I personally was sick for Xmas/NY's in 2021 and 2022. What's next - we'll have to show our cancelled flights?

If you are thinking it's fishy, you are probably a boomer. Newsflash, NO ONE CARES about your schedule as long as you are getting your work done and performing well. The old-fashioned need to see and be seen, butts in seats, come earlier and leave later than the boss are for unorganized and inefficient

Anonymous wrote:I schedule flu vaccines on a Friday so I can be sick the whole weekend and then be able to come.in on Monday.

People have their reasons OP and they are not all suspicious.

The bigger thing is that companies should hire people they can trust, and should foster a culture of treating adults like adults.