Sick days.

I have not worked for 9 years due to looking after my brood, unfortunately that is the only job that I cannot take a sickie from! LOL. Anyway when I did work I would take an occasional sickie, usually when I had been out the night before, I did it one time and phoned in and the nurse of the care home came knocking at my door. She took one look at me and knew that I had a hangover, I got a warning for that, and I never did it again!

When I was working, I never had a sickie - and my husband went nearly 20 years without having one! He's nearly ready to retire now, and it's a shame he has all those sickies saved up and won't be able to use them. I think some people feel it's their right to use them up ... but I would have felt too guilty, and besides, I didn't like leaving my job for someone else to muck up!

Well, I am laid off right now, but I don't usually pull sickies. I really have to be sick to call in. However, my husband just did it today! HA HA! He stayed up late last night playing video games, and decided he was too tired today to go to work. He doens't do it all the time, so I hope he doesn't get busted.

I used to call in sick for my old job on some days when I just hadn't slept well and/or was being a bit lazy about getting out of bed. Not technically sick, but we had so many sick days available that I just used them when I needed to. I haven't called in sick at all since I started my new job! Mostly, it's because I haven't been legitimately sick, except on the weekends, since we moved!

I get five sick days a year and I generally use those days for mental health days because I'm not sick usually. I can't remember the last time I called into work because I was sick let alone because I wasn't sick. My days are generally planned days off from work.

I don't work for an employer any more, but I can't remember the last time that I pulled a sickie. When I was a kid my Mum used to make my go to school unless I was really ill. She'd accept no malingering and I guess it's a habit that's ingrained.

I actually dislike to do this. I tend to get jobs which pay you per hours you work. Less hours means less desperately needed pay = even when I'm sick I work unless I really can't. I've taken exactly one sick day in the last few years since I've been old enough to work, lol. It was the super-cold that was going around my state at the time, I recovered quicker than everyone else did, but I had one day that I really couldn't get out of bed. I couldn't speak 'cause my throat was so messed up, and to move was awful. It was in December, when I was working for the Salvation army -- technically it was food-pay...that is they gave you pay for the days you work so you can buy food while you're there for yourself, and its cash...but it's pretty decent money and usually I don't spend most of it. I ended up earning a couple hundred dollars, and it's how my family had christmas that year. Heh.

Quite a few times when I was working in New Zealand. I had some really stressful times in my last relationship and one way I dealt with it was to stay away from home as long as I could, so I chose to work part time (Thurs-Sat and the occasional Sunday when they had Darts) at a bar. I would be exhausted by the time Monday came around and often took a day off. I'm surprised I never got fired for it either. This was years ago though. When we moved to Samoa in 2000 I only took the day off when my son got sick. I'm a stay at home mom now so I can have any sick day I want LOL

I never did sickies except for dental appointments. Most of the places I worked it was necessary to be there. Sometime when the office work got to be too much for us we would give the students a day off though and we would stay home and do paperwork all day instead of staying up and doing it into the wee hours of the night after a full day of teaching.

well i've done that in my previous jobs. i wasn't happy in them and the thought of going to work makes me sick. here where i am, we got to produce a doctor's certificate to say that we are really sick before we can call in sick. so i had to come up with all sorts of illness to get a certificate. however, i've not done that in years as i am quite happy in my current job. i wake up in the morning looking forward to go to work. it's a really good feeling. cheers.

Hi coffeeshot! I have always run my own business and never have called on "sickie'. haha..I guess I can't deceive myself even how much I would want to. haha.. Take care and God bless!

Not very often at all here. I have been on my job for over six years and I have only stayed home once just because I didn't want to go to work.

I was watching a movie the other day & there was a scene where a teacher & a school nurse were having a conversation... And it went something like this: -----Teacher: You look terrible... Are you sick? School nurse: Yeah... I got this terrible flu & I've been sick since Friday... Teacher: You got some sick days, right...? Why don't you use'em & go home? School nurse: Because I'm saving them for the days I feel better....!!!------- I feel like that sometimes... I rarely take sick time for myself & when the weather's really good out & feel like going somewhere, I wanna call out "sick" & go to a beach or something... I've done it twice... I felt little guilty but I got over it real quick when I got to the beach...

hi dear . never done it so far. the kind of work i have been doing perhaps prevented any one of us from doing it. being in the call center that too with night duty you got to be very attentive, and if you are repeatedly saying sick, you have the risk of getting sacked!!

Considering the fact that I work for myself, I don't pull sickles very often. I also work in a coffee shop. I am not employed by the cofee shop, I just take my computer, set up my stuff at one of their tables, and work from there. It's cheaper than having the internet at home. ;-)

lol I can't call in sick being I'm self-employed. If I was to do that, I would have to find someone to deliver my papers myself first. Not an easy thing to do when noone wants to do it.

i don't do it too often..but every now and then,you need a day off,if only to catch up on sleep.i've had jobs that think nothing of putting you on 11 days straight (technically illegal). do i feel guilty?no.my own health comes first. you get too tired,you'll be to ill to work for real.

I cann't because I work for myself.But the funny thing is only a few days back I took a day off.I had a very bad back.And doing almost nothing work wise I felt guilty.

Hmmmmmm Well, if i am not sick and want to take day off, i will never say that i am sick, and infact i never do that as well. Either i say i have urgent work One time on my leave application i wrote that, just want to take rest, LOL my bossd called and ask write some other reason, and i sais its truth, and then he just sign it

hahaha! guilty as charged!!! my last "sickie" was on my birthday in may. i didn't want to work so i called in sick!