How many sick absences would be acceptable

[thelongestroad]

It should be a valid question! It ****es me off monumentally when people go off ill when you know it's because they have a turn they don't like or they just don't want to go into work.

 

[youngboy]

In the fifteen years that I've been in my current job I've had five days off following a surgical procedure and three days off with man flu. Eight days in fifteen years.

There's one guy I work with (well, he occasionally attends) who always has some excuse with trivial illness. While the political correctness brigade say that it's unfair to ask someone their sick leave record I feel that I am a far more employable prospect than the waste of oxygen who is always on the phone to the doctors to get signed off because he's got the sniffles. Again.

If you're a malingering sicknote with no sense of teamwork, leaving your shift colleagues to have to work harder thanks to your latest bout of mad cow disease (or something equally ridiculous) get into the dole queue with all of the rest of your sort.

Rant over.

Must admit, this post strikes a chord with me. Been there, and it stinks !!

 

[NLC1072]

I tell you what though it annoys me more when people come to work ill to spread what ever they have amongst my colleagues and then half the office go off sick!

 

[welshjpc]

it's never bothered me. I can always choose to decline if I wish

In my line of work, there is no overtime and no option to decline. If you're called in, you're in. Booooooooooooo.

 

[Greenback]

I have no problem with people with genuine reasons for medical absence but there will always be a minority making the majority look bad.

One of the points I was trying to make was that some people have hidden conditions that you may not be aware of. Some of the people you describe as malingers may fall into this category.

Put simply: Work won't get done if the employee isn't there to do it. Someone who is reliable is better than someone who is not, genuine reason or not.

It's all political correctness gone mad.

You are entitled to your view. I would just like to echo the sentiments made by JSB. I really hope that you remain in good health and don't fall victim to a condition over which you have no control that causes you to miss work on a more frequent basis than at present.