Our entire IT department called in sick for like a week with the “flu” last December when the World of Warcraft Expansion came out.
I was the only one in the office that had any idea what was going on. It was kind of funny.
I wasn’t sure if you were doing it. But I’ve seen it often enough (maybe not as much on this forum, but often).
I had to call in sick once on the Monday after Superbowl because I was actually sick. I had been sick the whole weekend and didn’t even watch the second half of the game. Nobody believed me.
Another shining example of jerks ruining everything for everyone. Sucks to be the one guy who actually is sick on Monday. Once, after spending a week in Vegas for my anniversary, I started getting sick toward the tail end of the trip. By the time I got home, I felt like ass and called in sick the following Monday. A likely story, right? “Sick” after a vacation in Vegas.
I swear for once in live I wasn’t hungover!
I assume you of all people would get the benefit of the doubt. I mean, who’s more likely to come into work even when she is hung over than you?
Exactly!
You don’t get MLK day off? I’ve never heard of that. Unless we’re talking about someone working in a store or something–I thought all office type work was closed on MLK.
I wasn’t hungover, I had a throbbing face because my boyfriend accidentally elbowed me in the cheekbone so hard I saw stars! And that was a no-win situation, I assure you. “Ha ha, did you go to a party?” “Yes, but I didn’t drink too much - actually, Him Indoors punched me in the face.”
I mentioned to a boss a year or two ago that I thought it was odd that we got Good Friday off and not MLK day - his repsonse, IIRC, was “welcome to the south.”
eta: Fortune 200 company, btw - management / professional type work (in an office)
eta: he was being sarcastic, not approving of the idea (he’s fairly liberal)
I hope the OP never relocates to Ireland.
I suspect it may have had more to do with the fact that the stock market is closed on Good Friday, but not MLK day. I don’t know exactly what to blame that on, but it’s certainly not the south.
I work in a clinic, in Chicago. We’re open MLK Day, Presidents’ Day, Good Friday, Veterans’ Day, all of those days I’d consider “bank” (or government or school) holidays. On that note - patients, please don’t disbelieve that we’ll actually be in. Especially when your disbelief isn’t expressed until the day or so beforehand when I call to remind you. If I didn’t do a reminder call, would you have shown up, or no?
Maybe, but we’re closed other days when the market is open - we get 2 days each for Thanksgiving and Christmas, for example.
I have an office type of job, and I don’t get MLK Day off either. Hospitals don’t close for anything! But I didn’t get it off when I worked in an outpatient clinic office sort of setting either. We only get New Years, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day, and we have to work one of those per year. It was the same when I worked on the outpatient side too, minus having to work one holiday a year.
I’m in the South, and I don’t have MLK or Good Friday as a holiday, but I work for a private employer. The schools have both, which induces a whole unrelated rant. Government has MLK, which is the source of yet another unrelated rant. Not the MLK day in itself: the fact that they have to share the holiday with Robert E. Lee.
I agree with the OP wholeheartedly. If you have to drink, stop early enough so you can get to work the next day and perform your job. Or take the day off ahead of time.
Meh, as an employer I look at it this way. We have a policy in place for sick days, if it’s believed you’re engaged in systematic abuse we will start asking for a signed doctor’s excuse for every sick day. Otherwise, unless you need to take three consecutive sick days, I don’t really care about the details.
Sick days are an employment benefit, I don’t think it’s really the employer’s place to heavily scrutinize how they are used. Again, if there’s a systemic pattern, that’s an issue. But one day, even if it’s the day after the Super Bowl, I’m honestly not going to get bent out of shape over it.
I also have sent people home who come in sick, and then I start to hear the martyr talk of “man, I’m really dragging today, I feel like crap.” Well, guess what, I don’t care why you feel like crap, but I don’t want you hear feeling like crap. Especially since a lot of things are likely to spread to everyone else and then everyone needs to take a sick day or everyone has to work sick. Stay the fuck home.
Super Bowl Fun Fact from Tom the Dancing Bug: “Daniel Beiner, of Virginia Beach, Va., once watched the Super Bowl sober, and reports that much of the second-half broadcast is actually dead air and footage of chimps on tricycles!”
Hear, Hear, Martin Hyde. Good to see a normal post after all this whining: “Oh I had to work sooo hard because people called in sick today!” Give me a break.
We used to have a serious problem in the U.K. with absenteeism on New Years Day, but then the government did a sensible thing and made it a Bank holiday.
Quite honestly I think that the people who did go to work on NYsD probably didn’t achieve much on account of having crashing hangovers and lack of sleep.
For what it’s worth, the last state to observe MLK Day as a legal public holiday was New Hampshire, in 1999.