So glad I work for school that I have 10 days I'm sick days and I can carry them over every year if I don't use them. We're born to stay home when we're sick! Nobody wants that s**t spreading around the school

I understand making a big deal about attendance in school, where you're dealing with joking and mischievous youth (and those who are really sick usually have protection from their parents anyway). But with adults at work? Responsible people who somewhat chose to work for you? The more of an a*****e you are about it, the more will people hate coming.

Some managers just do things by the book rather than consider each individual case on it's merits. I was in a position once where I had a badly broken elbow (3 hr operation to pin and plate my arm together 14" scar, 40 clips etc). I got called in for a meeting after 4 weeks to discuss my absence record, as earlier in the year I had been given 2 months compassionate leave to care for my terminally ill mother.I offered to return to work on limited hours - I could answer the phones, type a bit by then. They refused on safety grounds, made me stay off a further few weeks onlly to put me on disciplinary as soon as I returned.

Remember The Company is NEVER on your side. You are NEVER more than a tool for them to make money!!!!

I HATE that people act like they're a hero for coming in sick. Cool, now I'm sick, our customers are sick, and I'm leaving for an audition in 3 days. Ughhhhhhh

I'm lucky my workplace is pretty good about sick leave. The boss at another job was pretty strict to the point of being an a-hole about it. One employee was out for two days because he was trying to save his house that was damaged in a flood. He was threatened with firing (he had not slept in two days). He had no choice but to return (and deal with the house after work), as he had a family to support.

When I worked at a fine jewelry counter inside a department store chain, I had gotten the flu within the first month. Fast forward 3 weeks later and I get a call from State Patrol at 6am that my sister was in a roll over accident on the mountain pass. This was before the age of cell phones and the main switchboard for the department store didn't open until 8am. I asked a friend to call in and speak directly to my manager to tell her what was happening. I pick up my sister and hour later, she's complaining of headaches..so I know she needs to go to the ER. When I get back home, my friend says she spoke to the switchboard..c**p!. I call the manager and she's threatening me with being fired if I don't come in. I'm forced to drive to the store with my sister..walk in..hear the manager on the phone "I know she's lying". I slap down the accident report in front of her and say "I'm taking my sister to the ER now for a possible concussion" and walked out. They fired me anyway.

A few years ago, I was in the hospital very sick. I had only been on that job about 5 months. 2 months later, I was back in the hospital. They could have fired me, but they were very decent and understanding about it. I wish more employers were like that.

I remember one girl applied for and accepted a job, knowing full well she was pregnant at the time.. Announced it to management a few days after her 3 month probationary period was up - made out she hadnt known. Got the all the full paid maternity leave and all the workplace benefits out of it - never came back. Struck me as ever so slightly dishonest. Was only there less than 3 months - got an extra year's full pay out of it.

Honestly, we have a really s****y law and regulations system here, but this part of it is way better than a lot of other countries. If a doctor gave you sick days, you can stay at home and your employer can't legally do anything about it. There are s****y employers who can try to threaten you, but they know they can't really fire you for calling sick when you have a note from the doctor - it's a special kind of note, it goes through the national insurance system and can't be faked easily. I had a heart condition (I still do, but it's fine now, seems the problem then was due to stress), I was feeling really bad and was working a s****y job in stressful environment then, so when my cardiologist told me they can give 40 days sick leave (it's paid by the way, we pay insurance for this), so I took it all. I had a colleague with serious eye problem and we work office job on computer all day, so she was out for 4-5 months and there was no problem with this.

When I had worked for the USPS about 3 yrs I came down with a very bad case of the flu, I had already taken about 6 days sick leave & told that I had to come in to work...I worked my entire day for the public, it came back ( or never left) worse then before & ended up with 2 more wks off...Thank goodness I have been retired for the past 13 yes & I hope things have improved for my fellow postal workers since then ( I worked there for 34 yrs total because I was a single parent...I had hoped that my kids would never work there)

I worked for big orange too, and i have a lifelong illness that causes similar effects to food poisoning when it flares. Needless to say thier attendance system is unsympathetic and obsolete especially when many of my colleagues were elderly / retired. This is why good staff don't stay, fortunately my current company understands that working with us employees is better than against them. I got very ill a few years ago and my company helped me out, needless to say i work harder now out of respect for that

If I am sick I get my normal pay for six weeks, after this I get money from my health insurance (a bit less money). I am so happy I never was sick for such a long time but job security and secure money sure is nice.

I can't understand this work centric mentality. You want me to come in sick and get everyone sick? What a great idea!

I worked for a company with an "occurrence" system. You were allowed three occurrences in a year. An occurrence was one instance of being absent. So, if you were out one day, it was one occurrence, and if you were out on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, that was one occurrence, too. This ostensibly discouraged people from taking off Friday or Monday to make long weekends. Employees could not apply for promotions if they had three occurrences in one year. You were verbally warned after the second occurrence, and then written up and risked losing your job after the third. Some European friends told me that this sort of system is illegal in their countries, as is the U.S. practice of asking past employers about prospective applicants' attendance records. People are not machines. They have years when they go through poor health. This system is also unfair to women who have to use their sick days to stay home to take care of their sick kids.

As horrible as this sounds, once when I had diarrhoea I came into work as I had easier access to a loo then I did if I’d stayed home with my three very young kids (if I’d stayed home I had to also keep my kids home as their crèche was attached to work, over an hours drive from home) ( yes my commute is insane)

Sick leave is a strange one, there are people that call in as soon as they have a tickly throat and others that have hideous colds but still turn up. It's hard to know what's acceptable and what's not, and often varies depending on your job. Having said that there's also a 'luck' element. I've had two/three sick days in three years, then last year in space on a few months I've had four D&V bugs

Ignorant walnut is my new favorite insult

Omg I too work for this big orange diy company and had a very similar situation only my so called red (after only 2 days previous sick in 17months) was me telling them I’d be signed off for 2 weeks as I had suddenly lost my nephew and wasn’t coping well after seeing his body absolute joke they don’t care !! And yet other staff have had 3-4 days sickness And got away with an amber ?!

I just hate wasting a sick day when I am not feeling good.

I can beat this. I have a number of serious illnesses, my manager doesn't believe there's anything wrong with me - even though he witnessed me have a heart attack in front of him and another time visited me in hospital while recovering from sepsis. I also have to have time off every few weeks for treatment - which he doesn't believe. And the best part? I work in a hospital.

*projectile claps*

In high school, my mom took me to a allergy & asthma specialist who, within 10 minites of meeting me insisted I needed a pneumonia shot even though my allergies were well controlled at that time. Having a history of medicinal allergies I had come across through treatment throught my life in my paperwork, he still didn't bother to test me for allergies to the shot. Nope. He stuck a needle in my arm that very day. The next day, my arm was swollen to twice it's normal size, there is a ring of hot redness arou d the injection site larger than my palm, I am having trouble breathing & I am running a temp of 104°F. My mom took me to the ER. For the next two weeks, I am in and out of the hospital 3 different times before finally going back to school, not fully mended but willing to push through so I can graduate come spring. What happens? After I have missed 10 day of classes, with doctor & hospital notes to excuse my absences, I get pulled out in the class again to sign anattendance contract.

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I was sick from being overly dehydrated, worked 14 hours the day before helping out with the bakery, stock take, clothing department and my regular checkout job. The "acting manager" already had it in for me for some reason. In between throwing up in a bucket I ask my dad to ring up and let them know I won't be coming in. I'm a casual so I was worried for my job all the time. Acting manager asks to speak to me, she says im really letting down the whole store and I shouldn't even bother coming in the next day then. The call ends. I ring back a few hours later and talk to the actual manager and he says what she said was not called for, he knows how hard I work, helping out all the departments when its not my job and how much ive been wanting to go full or even part time. But...in the end....she got her wish....she "let me go" while I was off getting a cortisone shot in my wrist because it had swollen up to the point that customers even were worried.

And these people don’t have any idea, or maybe pretend not to, as to why they’re disliked. Fully 50% of all college degree holders are in the bottom half of the class. Although for all I know there’s a “bell curve” of some sort making everybody “above average. wtf

This is why diseases will never be wiped out.

I would update my resume and leave Scrooge and company. Before I retired we got 7 paid sick days a year plus unlimited if signed by a Dr.

Used to work in a Public Health office. One of the nurses - who worked with PREGNANT TEENS - would never take a sick day. Claimed she wasn't contagious. The head administrator would have to order her to go home and stay home. A RN - who used to work in hospitals - my mind boggled.