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Going to work when you're sick

#21
Mike M. said:
"Sick or else." I'm sure the bosses stick to that one as well when they're sick.

Where I work we have no sick days but they're actually pretty cool and don't hassle you if you call in sick....as long as it's not all the time.

It takes a LOT for me to call in, but I know my limits. Nothings worse than knowing you're coming down with something and you don't feel like going in....but you can't justify losing a days pay either. You know, it's that "it's trying to get me, but it hasn't kicked in all the way yet but it's coming" feeling.
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If I have soupy poopies, I'm out. I work through everything else, but if I'm in danger of soiling myself, I'm goin home.
 
#22
We have no sick days .


I can stay home and feel like crap for free or go to work and get paid to feel like crap.


I do have short and long time disability coverage paid at 65% of gross ( tax free )

If I have a major illness or injury I am good to go .

In 17 years with my current employer I've called in maybe 3 days total .
 
#25
It's a pretty crappy workplace where you feel you have to show up even when you're being physically sick, my sympathy for anyone who has to go through this... :/

I'm lucky in that we practically get pushed out of the door and sent home if we try to turn up sick. I know some bosses can be real ****s about it though.
 
#26
I still don't get it. If I had a 103* fever and wasn't approved for a sick day, I would take myself to a different non company doctor and get my health for that day documented in my medical file.

Then I would go back to work, hoping that my employer would have some sort of discipline waiting for me, I wouldn't sign a wright up, I would stand up for myself if it was just a verbal warning, and I would bring the legal hammer down on their sorry asses if I were terminated.

Paid sick days are a bonus, I didn't always have a job where I got paid sick days, unless I burned a vacation day. But there is no way I go to work sick, unless its just a minor sniffle or cough, in which case my boss usually sends me home anyway.
 
#27
Hopkins said:
I still don't get it. If I had a 103* fever and wasn't approved for a sick day, I would take myself to a different non company doctor and get my health for that day documented in my medical file.

Then I would go back to work, hoping that my employer would have some sort of discipline waiting for me, I wouldn't sign a wright up, I would stand up for myself if it was just a verbal warning, and I would bring the legal hammer down on their sorry asses if I were terminated.

Paid sick days are a bonus, I didn't always have a job where I got paid sick days, unless I burned a vacation day. But there is no way I go to work sick, unless its just a minor sniffle or cough, in which case my boss usually sends me home anyway.
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Those sound like outrageous steps to take just to proactively defend against worker abuse.

Clearly there are injustices if workers need to go to those extremes to feel safe in their job security.
 
#28
knumbskull said:
It's a pretty crappy workplace where you feel you have to show up even when you're being physically sick, my sympathy for anyone who has to go through this... :/

I'm lucky in that we practically get pushed out of the door and sent home if we try to turn up sick. I know some bosses can be real ****s about it though.
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welcome to the united states of the American workplace!
 
#30
Unrepresented said:
Those sound like outrageous steps to take just to proactively defend against worker abuse.

Clearly there are injustices if workers need to go to those extremes to feel safe in their job security.
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Job security wouldn't be a huge concern of mine if I worked for a boss like some of the guys here describe. It wouldn't take me long to get canned from those companies.
 
#34
Hopkins said:
I have never had a job like that, calling in sick has never been a problem, unless its a weekly thing.
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I don't work for someone like that either . I can tell my immediate supervisor I have a personal emergency ,am sick etc... And leave without any issues.



I have friends though that if they call in sick they get points,,,,,to many points =no more job
 
#36
Man, I feel bad for you guys. :( I'm another person that only calls in if I'm physically unable to work (usually due to severe insomnia, happens maybe once a year where I cannot sleep at all no matter what until about 8am)

I drive for a medical laboratory, so I get three weeks of PTO a year and a week and a half of sick days. My boss actually just made me take a vacation because I have too much PTO in reserve cause I never use it.
 
#37
Jazz Ad said:
Is it bound to happen?
USA have some of the worst worker protection policies from the Western World, yet companies keep explaining that it's too much given the current economy.
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The cash stockpiles that corporations have amassed in the last few years are borderline plutocratic. They've managed to increase productivity from workers by threatening their employees both directly and indirectly. This is the best of times to be a corporate fat cat and the worst of times to be an employee.
 
#38
In the US, only roughly 50 percent of workers in small establishments get sick leave. In larger establishments, it's about 80 percent. (Bureau of Labor).

If I had no sick leave, I'd darn sure be at the job any day when I was physically capable of being there, and I'd assume the employer doesn't care about the results. I sold cars for a while, and in that case it was up to me - no work, no commission. But it's pretty hard to sell a car when you look like you're at death's door.

Fortunately, I haven't been in a career without sick leave for more than 30 years. The only thing drawing me to work if I'm sick is how urgent the stuff is that I have underway.

I see both sides of this. I'd very much rather that sick people did NOT go to work, because I don't want them to spread it. But if their income depends on being there, I understand why they may go.
 
#39
This thread really makes me appreciate the people I work for presently, and who I have worked for in the past. I have sick days at the job I am at now. I didn't at my last job, but I respected the people I worked with enough to just miss out on that days pay and not spread my germs to them. There were never any repercussions for missing work for being sick, other than a joke text message from my boss about me being a slang word for a female body part.
 
#40
Pilgrim said:
I see both sides of this. I'd very much rather that sick people did NOT go to work, because I don't want them to spread it. But if their income depends on being there, I understand why they may go.
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They're held financial hostage to their finances and are forced to make decisions that will frequently harm themselves, their coworkers, their employers, and ultimately the general public?
 

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