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.
Sounds like extra vacation days to me!
I’m a school bus driver, and when a driver quits or retires they get paid for any accrued sick leave. The idea, of course, is that you don’t want people pretending to be sick for their last week or two on the job and leaving us with unexpected absences we have to find substitutes for. However, this payoff is $7 less per hour than our regular rate - so of course, everybody that leaves pretends to be sick for their last week or two on the job in order to get their full pay. It’s just such a fucking braindead policy.
Cobra problem…
No, that’s a cat in a toilet.
You can’t fool me OP, I’m on to you!
You don’t like skibidikitty?
I definitely don’t like that word.
That’s numberwang
Agreed on that front. I just couldn’t resist the alliteration.
Hard disagree. Try saying it out loud. It’s awesome.
I think I need “kitty” to have three syllables before I can enjoy that.
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.
Just getting a doctor’s note costs something in the US? Whenever I need a note I call my GP and ask the receptionist to write me one. The doctor doesn’t even do anything except sign the paper that the receptionist prints out! Charging for that seems crazy
Doesn’t taking a ‘personal day’ cut into your days of annual leave you have?
Don’t sick days?
Are you asking if I don’t take sick days, or suggesting I don’t take (fake) sick days?
- “true wisdom”
- Picture of an orange cat
Or take Friday off.
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.
Skibidi kitten
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.
Why would people having a long holiday be an issue in the first place?
Well, it is kinda bad when we can’t get a substitute for a driver. The day after the Eagles won the super bowl last year, more than a third of our drivers called in “sick” and we had to cancel a bunch of runs.
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
Should crosspost this to !wiseposting@sh.itjust.works
