Yes.
You used to be able to take a half day, or come in late, and only take a half point. Then they got so tired of people coming in late and then leaving for the day to only take a half point that NOW you only get a half point if you work at least 6 hours that day.
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I really, really wish more employers would cotton onto this idea. Higher morale and less gas/car maintenance costs for employees, fewer issues with absenteeism and contagious illnesses for the employers. For work that can be done anywhere, why the bloody hell NOT?!?
Similarly, the place I work for used to count each period of sick days as one incident. Whether you were out sick for one or three days, it still counted as one incident toward the disciplinary threshold. Now, it’s number of hours taken.
I have this thing I like to call an immune system. . .
These threads are good for reminding me to be happy with what I have. In Sweden you don’t get paid at all for the first day sick. From then onwards you get 80% for a certain period (one or two weeks, I forget) and then 80% up to a defined limit paid by the state for 300 days. Then it goes down from 80% to something else.
This annoys me because of that first day ill. But this thread reminds me that I still get a damn good deal. But anyway, I usually either go to work sick (you get paid a part of the day if you go home sick) or I take an extra day off “just to be sure”. I am sure I am not alone in Sweden doing at.
I am actually on sick leave right now. I have a slipped disc that will be operated on on Friday next week. As a sysadmin I can work from home but cannot commit to fixed hours. My employer was fine with “do what you can” but the state was very arsey about it as it doesn’t fit in with their rigid system of working 25/50/75% for a week. I actually told them that as they were being so awkward I would just not work. The doctor had put me on 100% sick, so I was well within my rights. Which was weird as they should be happy that I am willing to do whatever I can to reduce my cost to the state. Magically after I said all that they found a way for me to do it.
I have one too, but currently it’s covered in mucus.
I was sick this week with a stomach bug that led to quite bad diarrhoea. Should I have just gone in to the office and soldiered on when I wasn’t sure I would be able to manage the hour long commute without shitting myself? I’d love to think I was that vital to the running of my organisation but I’m really not.
Fortunately in the UK it’s illegal to discriminate against people who have illnesses or disabilities, so if you’re sick it doesn’t necessarily count against you. Yes it can be abused, and I’m sure it does, but I’d rather live in a society where health and quality of life are deemed more important than the bottom line (which is why I don’t like in the United States - that and I’m not useful enough to get a visa…).
You’re not Wolverine, I take it. Nor are you Leroy Jethro Gibbs. You don’t have a magic immune system. You can still get sick; you can still pass on sickness to others.
Who?
My parents had a policy that I could only stay home from school if I had a fever (100F or higher) or had thrown up. Since I’m always hearing that “by the time you have symptoms you aren’t contagious anymore”, I think that their system was a fair one.
No fun at all, but fair.
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Main character of NCIS, dearest. He’s never ever been had the flu or even a cold and is apparently some sort of mutant.
Oh, I don’t watch any of those shows.
To be honest, if a TV show doesn’t have some element of sci-fi in it, I don’t watch it at all. Movies of course are different, as are books, but TV definitely has to have the sci fi aspect to entice me.
Sattua, in response to that I always tell this story - my mother NEVER let me stay home sick from school. Anyway I once was sick two days in a row - fever, achy, not feeling good - but all of my fevers occured in the middle of the day, and my mother didn’t really believe me. It was the first two days back after summer break, too.
Anyway, on the third day, I got ready to go to school, and then threw up. Mother kept me home.
What ensued was a two week bout with malaria during which I lost twenty pounds (I was 117 so that was a LOT) and couldn’t keep anything down.
Bet she felt bad then. 
But I was too sick to notice.
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You seem to be implying that NCIS is in the CSI family of crapitude. That is a vile slander I can neither tolerate nor allow to go unpunished. Of course I can’t do anything to you, but there are always scapegoats.
All TV cop show forensics is science fiction, Mika, I thought you knew that. I would explain further but I have to go find a Welshman to abuse.
Skald, if you hijack this any further I shall spend the rest of my sick day doing Black Magic in your general direction. Nyah!
Yowza, a lot of you guys work for some crappy ass companies. Fortunately, I’m employed by local government so I get 2 weeks of sick time a year. No doctors notes needed or anything, so when I’m sick, I keep my ass home.
I always get irritated at people when they come in here sick, spreading their nasty germs everywhere. Of course we have the luxury of actually staying at home when we’re sick. I understand if you work a job that doesn’t have sick days or anything like that. In that event, I’d just ask you to cough in management’s general direction.
I get to work from home, remember? Also it’s possible I’ve moved and not told y’all. 
Plus I’m no longer hourly, and the rules set up to screw hourly workers don’t apply to me. (I don’t mean that to be boastful; the rules are set up to be unfair and exploitative, and I’m quite aware that I owe my relative freedom to luck as much as anything else.
When I was first diagnosed with diabetes, I missed several days of work, and my then-boss made a point of making sure that the time I spent in the hospital got recorded as FMLA time rather than sick time to make sure I didn’t run afoul of any limits; she did likewise with another of her direct reports who had gotten ill that year. Even though it ultimately didn’t matter in my case, I truly appreciated her going on a limb as she did and keep it in mind now that I’m in a similar position.
Chimera, so what happens for injuries or things like that? Hospital stays?
About two years ago, I was having my meds adjusted (I have epilepsy*), and every month around my period, I was going through multiple seizures. There was no way I COULD work – even with just minor ones, I simply wasn’t capable – my mind couldn’t focus until they passed. And obviously I couldn’t do anything while I was convulsing, which would render me completely useless for the rest of the day. (What I call “seizure hangovers”)
So what if you have someone with a condition that’s not an “illness”, per se, but someone like that? Someone with diabetes, who ends up with a bad episode who can’t come in because they end up in the hospital, or who’s battling cancer treatments?
Yeah, I know, worst case scenarios, exaggerations, blah blah blah. But the policy you have seems completely draconian. No room for something absolutely serious.
(This was before I was laid off, and my employers were very understanding. At first, I used to go to work and just sit in the back room when I had minor seizures, but my boss started sending me home. They were pretty cool about it)
*I HATE always having to bring this up, but it always seems to be relevant in some threads. Forgive me. :o
I just can’t get my head around being allocated a certain amount of allowed sick days a year.
I was off work for about 2 weeks 5 years ago for a bout of cellulitis, and, despite the fact that I was ADMITTED to the hospital and had doctor’s excuses for the time, I still got dinged on my annual review that year for “excessive absenteeism”.
I once threw up all over my 2nd grade teacher (the same one who insisted I go on Ritalin, then begged my parent’s to take me off of it) after she refused to sent me to the nurse because she thought I was faking to get out of a quiz. Not once in the next 10 yrs did I ever have a teacher say no when I asked to go to the nurse.