sick days. what would you do?

fret_wimp

I took an annual leave day last friday. nothing wrong with that.
While on my long weekend i caught a bad case of food poisoning, getting sick every 30 mins, the whole 9 yards.

because of that i was off yesterday and today. when i rang my manager to say id be off for a 2nd day. he didnt object, but sounded a bit peeved off.

now i have a doctors cert, but from what i hear, they dont count for a lot now days.

so what do you do in such a situation? should i just go in tomorrow and give my manager the cert, or get 5 mins with him and try to explain the situation further, that there was no way i could go to work while getting sick every 30 mins?

I dont think ive given reason for them to think id "pull a sickie" unnecessarily, but i want it to be perfectly clear that i was indeed way to sick to come into work.

seamus

With the exception of filming your vomiting bouts, sick days are very much an honesty thing. If you don't have a history of taking random sick days then I don't see the problem.

It's also worth noting that if you were sick on Friday, you're entitled to get that annual leave day back.

fret_wimp

thanks for the info. Il take 5 with the manager and explain how sick i was.
I wasnt sick friday, only became sick on saturday so i wouldnt be entitled to claim back that friday. thanks for the info.

Nody

fret_wimp wrote: »

now i have a doctors cert, but from what i hear, they dont count for a lot now days.

Sick certs where never worth the paper they where written on from my experience. My favorite one was a guy who applied for 4 weeks of holidays (denied) and who happened to "break his leg" and would be out for the same 4 weeks (with sick cert). Then there is also the classic of getting sick cert AFTER you was sick (had someone written out as being sick for two weeks one week after returning to work, no cert until that point).

fret_wimp

puts genuinely sick people in a bit of a situation though.

The_Conductor

Nody wrote: »

Sick certs where never worth the paper they where written on from my experience. My favorite one was a guy who applied for 4 weeks of holidays (denied) and who happened to "break his leg" and would be out for the same 4 weeks (with sick cert). Then there is also the classic of getting sick cert AFTER you was sick (had someone written out as being sick for two weeks one week after returning to work, no cert until that point).

Its very difficult to fake breaking your leg in all honesty...... (been there done that.......)

Our man in Havana

Sure if no one sees you for a month, it could be done.

seamus

If you broke your leg, you'd be off for longer than a month and you'd be limping too. I broke my kneecap before, spent 6 weeks in a cast, two weeks after that just getting normal walking back and about another month getting the strength back in my leg.

If I was an employer and an employee came back after a month with a smile on his face, a tan and a doctor's cert claiming that he broke his leg, I'd ask him to present the XRays or he'd be out on his ear.

The_Conductor

Bond-007 wrote: »

Sure if no one sees you for a month, it could be done.

A broken leg doesn't heal in a month...... I was in plaster over a year, and physiotherapy for 3 years (mind you it was 14 fractures, including spiral fractures of all the bones- I got caught under the loading bay of an articulated truck that collapsed).

Perhaps you could argue a very very minor injury- but a broken leg would suggest something a lot more significant.

Capt'n Midnight

broken bone usually means 6 weeks in a cast, not 4 and the leg would probably be thinner and hairier than the good one.
I'd much rather a clean break than tissue injury because that stuff just drags on months and months.

/2c