How many sick days have you taken from work this year?

mikemac1

The year is almost over, anyone want to share.

I have taken one during the summer. I wasn't sick tbh but I couldn't get any annual leave and hadn't had a day off from my office drone job in 4 months. Worked a lot of weekends too. Just called in sick, more for mental health then anything else.

Tbh I think I'll be calling in sick tomorrow. It's genuine I swear. The thing is our work asks for a sick cert if you are out Monday or Friday so I'll have to shell out about 55 euro for it. Oh well

Well, how was your 2014?

The Backwards Man

Had to get a doctor's note once because a junior doctor in A&E said my arm would have to be amputated because of an infected finger.
Quickly got a second opinion and released an hour later so didn't have to use it and was back at work that evening.

Closest I've ever had to a sick day. I'm self employed now so there's no such thing.

Dunny

About 11 months.

Lia_lia

1. I had a vomiting bug. It was actually the first sick day I've ever taken in my life!

UCDVet

I took five this year

cloud493

Zero.

I had real life flu followed by tonsillitis early in the year and had to take a week off. I could have done with two weeks tbh.

nullzero

Just the one, gastroenteritis. Last sick day before that was for the same thing in 2012.

Aswerty

Just took part of a day off. Wasn't feeling great but had to come in that morning for a job that was scheduled and couldn't be put off. Went home after about 3 hours.

I'd much rather been in work than home sick. The only time sick trumps work is if you take a recovery day where you're just in bed watching movies and ****.

Ted_YNWA

Took one this year.


Have only ever pulled 1 false sickie in my time.

racersedge

None. Not that we get paid for taking a day off due to illness in my workplace

Penny Tration

None.

Went home two hours early once, because I was in bits with a chest infection, viral infection and kidney infection. I was signed off sick for two weeks, but they had no cover, so i got two hours off.

smcgiff

A Phd researcher said to me back in June that she'd had a horrible day because her Manager pulled her up on the 5 days sick leave she'd already taken that year. I met her most days during that time and don't ever remember her being sick, slight sniffle maybe.

She couldn't understand why she was being treated like that. She wasn't impressed when I took her manager's side.

She's late twenties, but it's her first job and so may still have the student mentality.

lazeedaisy

I have had none in 11 years,

Changed jobs this year, from a job that pays 6 months full pay sick leave in 4 year period, to not a jot, limbs would have to be hanging off....

heldel00

When I'm not there all my colleagues have to cover for me as well as do their own work so zero sick days in four years. Iv been very fortunate though, thank god, and haven't been sick enough to stay off

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Up to my retirement I had a run of 32 years without sick leave. Just lucky!

Lux23

None, but I did work at home because I had a cold one day.

TheOtherBloke

Haven't taken any this year . Couple bof holiday days but thats it. Ah everyone needs a break now and again

RobertKK

Never took a sick day.

theteal

My flawless career absentee record was abolished this year by taking 1 sick day

Shenshen

1. I get very bad migraines, so would usually have 4 or 5 days a year where I feel like paying someone to just cut my head off. But my GP put me on a new contraceptive pill, and that's really mellowed the headaches amazingly well.

suicide_circus

3 days because I went into hospital for a minor operation but no "sick" days

ShadowHearth

I have not had a single sick day pulled since I started working. 9 years and counting. Sometimes I wish I could get one of those "mysterious" bugs, that I sow so many people get for one day or weekend...

Ruu

Been nearly seven years in my job and only taken one sick day (and was using that to take care of a sick relative).

martingriff

suicide_circus wrote: »

3 days because I went into hospital for a minor operation but no "sick" days

That makes no sence or are you saying "sick" days are people playing a joke. As a person who had awful trouble with migraines this year i take offence to that

Murphy7777

martingriff wrote: »

That makes no sence or are you saying "sick" days are people playing a joke. As a person who had awful trouble with migraines this year i take offence to that

Often people just faking it, I know from experience….Why not take some off if you are getting paid for it anyway and everyone else is doing the same. Also they were not talking about you directly so no need to be offended

fuerte1976

zero I think - this year...

smurfjed

Zero sick days so far this year, but two months compassionate time off.

you have to remember that one persons idea of being sick is different to another's, i can easily do my office job with a head cold, but i can't do my real job due to pressurisation issues. So i can be sick from one job but not from the other for the same head cold.

The One Doctor

I take as many as I can get away with, frankly.

braddun

none


if I can walk
I can go into work

Jawgap

10, but in my defence I developed a fairly serious skin and muscle infection following an insect bite and was hospitalised for a week.

The last time I took a sick day before this year was in 2000 for an emergency appendectomy!!

Greenmachine

Never taken a sick day in my life, but have taken unpaid day for hospital appointments.

martingriff

Murphy7777 wrote: »

Often people just faking it, I know from experience….Why not take some off if you are getting paid for it anyway and everyone else is doing the same. Also they were not talking about you directly so no need to be offended

Well he was off for 3 days but not a "sick" day means to me that anyone who takes a sick day is faking it and that to me is offensive to people who have to take off sick days.

Diddley Squat

zero - but usually out once or twice a year only if genuinely sick or infectious to others

Cee-Jay-Cee

I had 2 days off with flu (genuine aching bones and feeling like ****) and 3 single days for back ache (which I suffer with regularly)

Inspector Coptoor

6.
5 certified with man flu in Feb
1 in November with vomiting bug

boobar

None...I haven't been sick this year thankfully

smcgiff

martingriff wrote: »

Well he was off for 3 days but not a "sick" day means to me that anyone who takes a sick day is faking it and that to me is offensive to people who have to take off sick days.

You cannot be serious.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

I pulled a few sick days when working in the call center this year

Was a job i hated and i applied for another job (which i got)

So I pulled sick days to attend assessment for the job and interviews too.

At one stage i was told because the day i went sick was a friday i needed to get it certified. No problems says i

Went home, onto the laptop, new Microsoft word doc and wrote up a doctors letter to certify the sick day. Also put logos and bits from the HSE and tallaght hospital website.
Emailed it to myself and printed it off in work on the monday without them noticing !

Went well and nothing was ever said about it

padd b1975

Zero.

Penny Tration

martingriff wrote: »

That makes no sence or are you saying "sick" days are people playing a joke. As a person who had awful trouble with migraines this year i take offence to that

I'm pretty sure he means he didn't call in sick. He probably knew about the surgery and booked time off from his annual leave.

Cantremember

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Closest I've ever had to a sick day. I'm self employed now so there's no such thing.

I hope you're not a chef. Or a plastic surgeon. Or a pilot....

mikeym

Took Zero days :cool:

A friend of mine is the opposite, hes taken 3 weeks of sick days this year due to back trouble and hangovers.

blueser

padd b1975 wrote: »

Zero.

Same here; the company I work for do not pay "sick pay", so you have to claim off the social. I suffer occasionally with my back, and there were certainly days when I shouldn't have been in work. But what can you do? And "get another job" is not an option. Jobs down here in the sticks are rarer than virgin brides.

YellowFeather

Took 2. Was on my way to work and felt a bit dodgy. Next thing I knew, I was waking up after fainting on the pavement. Said fk this and went home.

Feel bad now with all ye zero sick day guys!!

dedaw

None for 8th year in a row!
Touch wood.

johnayo

It's been close to five years now since I was off sick. But to be fair, that's just luck. If I was genuinely sick I would stay off for as long as it would take.

DellyBelly

I'm entitled to 4 uncertified days a year but only took 3 this year.

5 or more unfortunately, I had the flu which was a week, and a few bouts of chest infections that got bad enough I couldn't go in

martingriff

martingriff wrote: »

That makes no sence or are you saying "sick" days are people playing a joke. As a person who had awful trouble with migraines this year i take offence to that

Makes perfect sense.

Planned time off for surgery etc usually isn't referred to in the same vein as calling in sick and taking unplanned time off.

Don't be getting so offended because you misunderstood a post!!

monkeysnapper

11 years and haven't had a sick day , back in May my little boy got sick and I had to go to hospital with him because my wife was pregnant and had to pull a sicky , I was gutted , broke my superb record, then my manager asked me if I wanted to take it as holiday as I had a load built up, I was well chuffed .

So it's still going!!