I used to share an office with a contractor in the UK.
Their sickie policy was that you didn’t get paid at all for the first four days of sickness, but for periods of five days or longer you got paid the statutory sick pay rate for the entirety of the sick period.
It was to disincentivise the “one day wonder” sickies after a night on the piss or when you couldn’t be arsed going to work - but predictably, all it did was guarantee that people would be off for at least five days so they got something out of it.
Absolutely backwards.
Reminds me of an old office that changed their policy so that you needed a doctors note for even a single sick day. They thought it would keep people from calling out for a day for headaches. All it did was cause all previous 1 day sicknesses to be extended to 3-5 days because no doctor here writes a note for anything less.
Mini rant incoming. It fucking sucks that it’s seen as sus to be sick for just one day. More often than not when my period cramps are too painful to stand up, it’s bearable by day two, but I stay home that day anyway to make it more believable. It’s similar with so many other pain conditions. Hell, I have chronic UTIs that are often too painful for me to move for just, like, two hours. But explain that to your boss.
Is it a fake sick leave if I need a one day break to fix my mental health? I don’t think so.
Bad mental health is a sickness. If people have mental illness they don’t just sit there and deal with it, they go to a doctor to get it fixed or at least under control. I have no qualms in talking a sick day off to get away from it all when I’m overwhelmed. If my employer says otherwise, then fuck them, I’ll find a place to work where they respect that.
I’m a school bus driver. Our district has a policy that for paid holidays (e.g. Labor Day) you have to show up for the work day prior and the work day following, or you don’t get paid for that holiday. This is ostensibly to prevent people from stretching a three-day weekend into four or five consecutive days off by taking pretend sick leave. I was a white-collar worker (programmer) for my whole career before this and never encountered any kind of rule like this.
Our company has a policy that if you’re sick for 2 days or more, you have to have a doctors note to return. So faking sick comes with a price tag for me. Also, any time I’ve ever joked about being sick, I actually end up sick. I’ll just call around and get someone to cover for me, then tell my supervisor I’m taking a personal day instead of earning some bad karma.
Or take Friday off.
I took a single day of fake sickleave recently, to be able to actually work on a worktask i needed to finish, and not be interrupted by meetings
Take a real sick day to go see a therapist that’s psychopath behavior
- “true wisdom”
- Picture of an orange cat
No, that’s a cat in a toilet.
You can’t fool me OP, I’m on to you!
Do you have the original image? I need to make a version that says “shitter’s clogged” instead.
