Posted: 9/12/2008 4:53:45 PM EDT
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I have 4 days of paid sick time I can use by the end of the year, they dont carry over and they dont pay out. Should I use them or not, if I dont I may seem to have a better ethic. Wondering if I need a case of explosive diarrhea, implosive diarrhea or explosive gonorrhea. No one ask questions about those. |
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so you have 4 days of vacation basically got anything you want/need to do? Otherwise I'd just work and get the money...but thats just me eta: when's the last time you did something for the better half...if there is one in the picture....you take one or two days off, not tell them, and do something really "romantic" it's an instant pie for you |
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We used to have 21 days a year sick available with no questions asked as long as you were below 21 days. I knew a girl in Admin/HR told me a guy rang her up to ask how many days he had left and when he needed to use them by....  Talk about ruining it for the rest of us....  Them were the days.Sadly no more. Taffy |
I still get paid for calling in, nothing needs done. My "better half" do you mean the ammo fort or my uzi? I cant call in these next 2 weeks will mess with my OT |
I may or may not know a certain forum member that used his sick days or vacation time right before he quit his last job...
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we have the same thing... You get 72 hours of sick leave to use or loose.. I came very, very close to using mine every year.. its amazing how bad you can feel at 6am, but after going back to bed for an hour or so you feel 100% better.. LOL If they would offer to pay me for what I didnt use I would not use them all up.. Right now i have close to 40 hrs left.. brian |
Last time I called in I shown up 2 hours later, I got bored |
That's what I do.. |
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Is it declared as "sick time" or "paid time off"? Ours is technically "paid time off". Last year, I thought we would be reimbursed at the end of the year for any PTO we didn't take, but that's only for hourly employees, so I found out. WTF. I probably put in 20-30% more hours than any hourly employee and couldn't cash in my PTO. That being said, I still haven't used any except for one day I truly was sick. |
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I do not use sick time unless I am sick. My philosophy on that is that it is a benefit to be used for actual illness that prevents you from working, not as "extra vacation time" like some people use it as. I realize not everyone shares this attitude. I have people that work for me that, if they get 10 sick days a year, I can pretty much guarantee they are going to call off sick ten times between January 1st and December 31st. Not seven, not eight, not nine, but exactly ten times. Amazing how some people's illnesses correspond exactly to their sick time benefits every year, isn't it? Don't think your boss doesn't notice stuff like this, because I guarantee they do. Sometimes when I think of what I could have accomplished with that lost productivity, it really angers me. I do not begrudge anyone their sick time if they really are sick, but if you are at all loyal to the hand that feeds you, I don't believe in using them if not really needed. I have called off sick less than five times in the last ten years, unless you count a week I was in the hospital fighting a staph infection. |