Phoned in sick today
Discussion
NorthernBoy said:
Two days in fifteen years, for food poisoning. Never had anything bad enough to keep me out otherwise.
I find it hard to believe that others can manage four or five unrelated incidents per year for decades.
I find it hard to believe that others can manage four or five unrelated incidents per year for decades.
TonyHetherington said:
Having been on PH a while, allow me to condense the next 10 pages for you;
"Not had a day off in 25 years of working"
"6 months with a back problem, 3 months after broke my knee"
"Unless you're on death's door, you should go to work"
"I don't want you in an office all snotty and spreading germs - stay at home".
"Not had a day off in 25 years of working"
"6 months with a back problem, 3 months after broke my knee"
"Unless you're on death's door, you should go to work"
"I don't want you in an office all snotty and spreading germs - stay at home".
aizvara said:
eliot said:
You had to personally call a director of the business - no texts, no emails, no getting someone else to call in.
Sickies reduced 75% overnight.
You must phone in personally? I've on two occasions not been able to call in sick myself; one of those I was at a doctors surgery having an ECG due to an amusingly variable heart rate, the other I lost an entire day to flu. No chance of phoning at the appropriate time in either case, so it was lucky that my GF could phone for me. Also, as I posted earlier: what if you lose your voice?Sickies reduced 75% overnight.
eliot said:
Yes - It weeded out all the regular blaggers with the limp excuses. Common sense would prevail - if my wife called in, they wouldn't have a problem because /ph mode/ I genuinley haven't had a day of sick for years /ph mode/ and they would know something was up.
Fair enough, then. I can imagine some places of work would take requirements like this too far and not apply any kind of common sense.I would phone in if able to.
I've been contracting for the past 5 1/2 years, and as has been said earlier, I would have to be on death's door to be ill from work. Previously, as an employee I was only sick for 2 days in 7 years, and two weeks in 9 years when I was in the RAF - had glandular fever.
I would have had to phone in ill if I'd been working on Saturday, I had food poisoning and was laid up all day, missed our first day in Cornwall on holiday though
I'm thinking I've missed out on some sick days over the years
I've been contracting for the past 5 1/2 years, and as has been said earlier, I would have to be on death's door to be ill from work. Previously, as an employee I was only sick for 2 days in 7 years, and two weeks in 9 years when I was in the RAF - had glandular fever.
I would have had to phone in ill if I'd been working on Saturday, I had food poisoning and was laid up all day, missed our first day in Cornwall on holiday though
I'm thinking I've missed out on some sick days over the years
I can count one one hand the amount of sick days ive had off in the last 17 years of work, I can genuinely say i have never pulled a 'sickie' when i haven't been feeling on deaths door with man flu.
Ive had time off 3 times though due to injury - once after a motorbike crash where I broke my shoulder and tore my tendons which took about 3 months till I could return properly to work although i was in doing light duties/office work etc where I could, another time I had about 4/5 weeks off after getting bitten of a dog and needing nerve repair/blood supply repair to a finger and the third time was back injury/slipped disc.
The company policy now is that employees must phone in person every day that they are off sick.
Ive had time off 3 times though due to injury - once after a motorbike crash where I broke my shoulder and tore my tendons which took about 3 months till I could return properly to work although i was in doing light duties/office work etc where I could, another time I had about 4/5 weeks off after getting bitten of a dog and needing nerve repair/blood supply repair to a finger and the third time was back injury/slipped disc.
The company policy now is that employees must phone in person every day that they are off sick.
Capita said:
The company policy now is that employees must phone in person every day that they are off sick.
Even if they are signed off by a doctor? If my doctor signed me off for two weeks I'd expect my employer to take his professional opinion. Does you employer have a medical degree?SD
Try living here. The mentality here is : Whatever sick pay is noted in your employment contract is to be used fully and for purposes of topping up your annual holiday. So if you get 10 days at full pay then that will absolutely be taken each year and no one seems to think its wrong to do so...Ah that wonderful sense of 'entitlement'...Drives me potty. 
shed driver said:
Even if they are signed off by a doctor? If my doctor signed me off for two weeks I'd expect my employer to take his professional opinion. Does you employer have a medical degree?
SD
I cant answer for certain as I havent been in the situation or been off sick - a work mate got bSD
ked though for not ringing in every day as apparently its in the employee handbook. I believe his response was something along the lines of "if you think im dragging myself out of bed every morning at 8:00 to call in sick every day then think again"I dont think anything came of it, theres one manager (who is our manager) who is pretty reasonable and another who is nothing but a bully and throws his managerial weight around, it was the latter that gave him talking to .......... and yes when it comes to it, he thinks he has a medical degree, an engineering degree, a psychology degree, a business studies degree, health and safety degree and every other degree.....reality is he has none and spends his days filling in, and getting others to fill in spread sheets
juice said:
Try living here. The mentality here is : Whatever sick pay is noted in your employment contract is to be used fully and for purposes of topping up your annual holiday. So if you get 10 days at full pay then that will absolutely be taken each year and no one seems to think its wrong to do so...Ah that wonderful sense of 'entitlement'...Drives me potty.
lmao - i'm on three months full pay, thing is I just cant bring myself to pull a sickie. Never have and cant see me ever being able to - just a step closer to being one of the useless,dishonest employees that companies don't want (i'm taking about the habitual sickie pullers though)A mate of mine is an ambulance tech, he plans it all out so if he is off sick he is back in time to do the x amount of shifts required to be eligible for overtime, and how many sick days he is entitled to before he looses out on y bonus or z paymnets
Thats's not pulling a sickie
This is pulling a sickie....
http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/articl...
This is pulling a sickie....
http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/articl...
When I've been laid low with something (bad cold, asthma attack, whatever) I've often been well enough to work - if I lived closer than a 10 minute drive+50 minute train+15 min walk from work. I could quite happily work at home on such days (most of the time anyway) - but they don't allow working from home. I once sat at home twiddling my thumbs on my arse at home with a broken toe for a week because they wouldn't let me work at home.
Don't forget that not everyone has the kind of job that allows them to work from home. If you are unfit to work then you are unfit. if this is confirmed by a Dr then your employer should take that as proof enough.
Also, what would happen if you were off sick with work related stress (proper stress, not a skive) and you had to ring in to work each day - could it be argued that being forced to ring in was adding to the stress thus making the illness worse? Would that be something an employer would do well to think about?
SD
Also, what would happen if you were off sick with work related stress (proper stress, not a skive) and you had to ring in to work each day - could it be argued that being forced to ring in was adding to the stress thus making the illness worse? Would that be something an employer would do well to think about?
SD
Are we talking public sector or private!
Personally, I would never text in sick. I think its both cowardly and rude.
I think the last time I phoned in sick was about 2006. And I was genuinely sick, so much so that I walked myself to the hospital and spend the rest of the day in A&E.
Personally I wouldn't dream of 'pulling a sickie'. I'd rather have the knowledge that my boss knows I don't ever take the piss and that if I ever had to take a period off, it would be for a very good reason, and I would be paid for it.
Personally, I would never text in sick. I think its both cowardly and rude.
I think the last time I phoned in sick was about 2006. And I was genuinely sick, so much so that I walked myself to the hospital and spend the rest of the day in A&E.
Personally I wouldn't dream of 'pulling a sickie'. I'd rather have the knowledge that my boss knows I don't ever take the piss and that if I ever had to take a period off, it would be for a very good reason, and I would be paid for it.
not that I get bothered about people getting sick, but the general two faced attitude in the office to people going sick is what annoys me.Gassing Station | Jobs & Employment Matters | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff