If you caught a cold, but only had 1 sick day remaining until April 2011, would you...

[Haole Girl]

Poll question: If you caught a cold, but only had 1 sick day remaining until April 2011, would you...

[nolabear]

1. Why should you be the only one to suffer? Spread that baby around!

Certainly the way places who don't give you enough sick days see it. Feel better.

[Haole Girl]

2. lol

No kidding. I'm sure I'm not the only one running low on sick days. I tried so hard not to catch this crud... ate well, tried to sleep 8 hrs per night... but the germs were nuclear. :-( Thanks.

[Forkboy]

3. I'd save the sick day for when I felt better.

:)

[some guy]

4. + 1

no point in wasting sick days staying home and feeling like crap. Might as well go to work, then, and use the sick day when it's "too nice to be at work."

:bounce:

:D

[pitohui]

5. what everybody else said

work is shitty whether or not you feel tip top so just go to work

on a glorious day in april when you're abt to lose that last sick day, then call in and enjoy a mental health day

the cold was most contagious 72 hrs before you knew you were infected so ignore the bullshit abt you should lose money and time because some whee whee whiner might get a cold

when mr. whee whee whiner pays my bills he can tell me how to use my paid and unpaid time...

[Aristus]

6. My company has PTO - Paid Time Off; sick pay, bereavement leave, and vacation

all rolled into one.

Want an extra day of vacation? Lose a potential sick day. Family death and funeral go four days instead of three? Less vacation, and less potential sick time.

One tries to stay well until vacay time comes around...

[Iggo]

7. We have vacation and PTO separate.

Two weeks vay-kay, use it or lose it.

PTO is accrued per month, and at the end of the year we can roll it over (20 hours max, I believe) or sell it back to the company.

That said, whether or not I have any time off left, I always stay home when I'm sick.

[Aristus]

8. I'm lucky in one respect. The company I work for offers four weeks paid vacation

right out of the gate. Goes up to five weeks after 3 years. That's pretty good.

Getting close to the minimum paid vacation time allowable in most European countries.

I can see why we get good vacation benefits: practicing clinical medicine is stressful and exhausting. It has its rewards, and its everything I signed up for, but still, stressful and exhausting... :hangover:

[krispos42]

9. If your company wanted you to stay home when you were sick....

...they obviously would give you more sick time.



Just as obviously, your company is penny-wise and pound-foolish.



Your bosses probably believe the claptrap capitalist theory that if everybody does what is in their own best interest, everybody as a whole will benefit. So... do what's in your own best interest and go to work. If you're going to be sick, might as well be sick and making money. A day's net wages can buy a good time out!

[Gold Metal Flake]

12. +1

[NNadir]

10. Um...I'd go to work and kiss my boss.

[Haole Girl]

11. As it turned out...

I stayed home. Then went to the doctor. Had to get antibiotics for my ear... it was too painful to make it a whole day at work. Got some good "cough pearls" too which should make going back tomorrow more tolerable. I hated to use a sick day, but I was in bad shape.

[Rochester]

13. If I wasn't feeling well enough to go,

then I would call in sick.
And if I got sick again between then and April, then I would call in sick then, too, number of sick days be damned.