How many sick days

Conservatory

Reading the teachers forum there and I seen some of their co workers can miss a day a week.
I wouldn’t get paid if I missed a day. I might be offered to take it as a holiday.

Anyway I’m in my current job 10 months and haven’t missed a day. I was ten minutes late one day because I left my steel toe boots at home and had to go back for them when I seen my runners on my feet driving the car.

I don’t drink on school nights and keep a healthy weight so I’d imagine that helps. Do you miss many days? Are you always late after smoking weed all night and playing x box? Do you take exactly as many days as you are entitled to on the companies sick day scheme?

Any insight into it?

tigger123

I've taken 2 sick days in the last 9 years. Can't stand the guilts!

Leftyflip

Out for a week, due to a bad back. Can't stand it.

Cupcake_Crisis

What does maintaining your weight have to do with taking sick days?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I went 23 years without a sick day.

Mint Sauce

About 3 or 4 days in the last 6 years. I need to be sick sick before I call in sick.

Conservatory

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

What does maintaining a healthy weight have to do with taking sick days?

You are more likely to have a sturdy robust immune system if you have a good body mass index.
Now I know the fitness industry says BMI means nothing but I can tell you sister I’m fairly shredded too from running up and down ladders and stairs and a lot of upper body work running pipes through hotels. So general fitness and BMI would be good.

SeanHarty

Leftyflip wrote: »

Out for a week, due to a bad back. Can't stand it.

Been out all last week and this week and looks like another week with back issues also.

Getting an MRI tomorrow and seeing a speciliast tomorrow week. Hopefully not out for much longer can't bare lying down for any longer!

SEPT 23 1989

None because I don't earn but as a young man in the 90's I seemed to constantly have a reaccuring condition most Mondays that seemed to cure itself by 7pm the following Friday night

Cupcake_Crisis

Conservatory wrote: »

You are more likely to have a sturdy robust immune system if you have a good body mass index.
Now I know the fitness industry says BMI means nothing but I can tell you sister I’m fairly shredded too from running up and down ladders and stairs and a lot of upper body work running pipes through hotels. So general fitness and BMI would be good.

I mean.... good for you I guess, but that’s a load of crap!

Conservatory

Leftyflip wrote: »

Out for a week, due to a bad back. Can't stand it.

I feel your pain my back starts to go when I don’t use it. Some sort of diffective muscle in there that cramps up and stops working if I’m a few days sitting around. I’d to get discs shaved and put back in at one stage.

Conservatory

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

I mean.... good for you I guess, but that’s a load of crap!

Drown out what you don’t wanna believe. I don’t mind.

Pac1Man

I was out for a month after surgery. Doctor gave me a bag of opiates and sent me on my way. I had the best time ever.

TPD

I took 5 sick days in my last job over 5 years. I think 3 of them were just duvet days, but I did wait until work was quiet before taking them

Mint Sauce

Conservatory wrote: »

You are more likely to have a sturdy robust immune system if you have a good body mass index.
Now I know the fitness industry says BMI means nothing but I can tell you sister I’m fairly shredded too from running up and down ladders and stairs and a lot of upper body work running pipes through hotels. So general fitness and BMI would be good.

People take sick beacuse they smoke weed, play XBox all night, and possibly due to their BMI?

Oh I am subscribing to this thread to see what other assumptions we can make about people.

Cupcake_Crisis

Conservatory wrote: »

Drown out what you don’t wanna believe. I don’t mind.

Ok, I will!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Conservatory wrote: »

Reading the teachers forum there and I seen some of their co workers can miss a day a week.
I wouldn’t get paid if I missed a day. I might be offered to take it as a holiday.

Anyway I’m in my current job 10 months and haven’t missed a day.

Firstly teachers only get paid for 7 uncertified sick days in a two year period. So missing a day a week is BS unless they are actually paying a GP for a cert.

Not missing a day due to sickness in 10 months is hardly exceptional.

notsoyoungwan

I’ve had two weeks sick leave in 16 years of working, that was after surgery.

CPTM

I know people in big companies who have some weird pride in having no sick days over X amount of years. Absolute madness. They come to work coughing and spluttering everywhere infecting the whole team, all to keep this bizarre record in their heads. If you're sick, take your feckin sick days! Nobody really cares, and you're allowed to be human.

I've had a few over the years. I'm a day rate contractor so I lose money if I take one. None so far this year thank god.

_Brian

I was out for 18months after a bad car crash. Lost my job. It was demoralising a fair bit of the time.

Thankfully I’m well again and only miss an odd day if my back flares up again.

Conservatory

Mint Sauce wrote: »

People take sick beacuse they smoke weed, play XBox all night, and possibly due to their BMI?

Oh I am subscribing to this thread to see what other assumptions we can make about people.

Some do. Is making assumptions something that upsets the twitter generation now too?
I did an apprenticeship many moons ago and half the lads would arrive in at ten o clock with pink eyes after playing FIFA until 3 am. It’s not unusual.

mohawk

We don't get paid sick days. So you either take it as annual leave or go unpaid. People are often in work when they should be home but they can't afford to take time off.
Most of my sick days are my child's sick days. Although I will confess I took a week off once when I got the flu. Even in my twenties if I was hungover I would still go to work. Wasn't much use by I was there.

Conservatory

Conservatory wrote: »

Reading the teachers forum there and I seen some of their co workers can miss a day a week.
I wouldn’t get paid if I missed a day. I might be offered to take it as a holiday.

Anyway I’m in my current job 10 months and haven’t missed a day. I was ten minutes late one day because I left my steel toe boots at home and had to go back for them when I seen my runners on my feet driving the car.

I don’t drink on school nights and keep a healthy weight so I’d imagine that helps. Do you miss many days? Are you always late after smoking weed all night and playing x box? Do you take exactly as many days as you are entitled to on the companies sick day scheme?

Any insight into it?

That is clearly just someone trying to start off the usual teacher bashing - to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Conservatory

Roberto Acidic Mechanic wrote: »

Firstly teachers only get paid for 7 uncertified sick days in a two year period. So missing a day a week is BS unless they are actually paying a GP for a cert.

Not missing a day due to sickness in 10 months is hardly exceptional.

I never said it was. It’s probably the best in my job though. It very physical and people get injured or just too tired now and again. Heavy drinking on a Sunday wouldn’t be uncommon for them. It’s not like teaching. My Irish teachers and some of the religion teachers used to come in sit at the desk a lot of the time and not even register that we were there. Just turn up sleep it off and clock out. They’d booze at lunchtime too. There’s some people getting very defensive here?
Did I say something wrong?

Conservatory

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That is clearly just someone trying to start off the usual teacher bashing - to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Check the teachers forum. There’s a thread right there. It could have been any forum. If you look through my after hours threads a lot of them start by reading another forum.

frankythefish

51 years working and have never had a sick day. Throat a bit sore at moment though so might call in sick tomorrow

Beasty

Leftyflip wrote: »

Out for a week, due to a bad back. Can't stand it.

Had a bad back in the early nineties. Didn't take any time off until they operated on a lumbar disc. They told me I would be in hospital a week and then it would be another 6 before I could return to work. Got back 6 weeks after the operation

Then another disc went. This time I was back to work 5 weeks after the operation. Another 6 years and the first disc needed operating on again. It was 4 weeks that time. Final operation was a couple of years later and I missed 3 weeks and 2 days that time

In the middle of all that I had a minor eye operation. The operation was on the Thursday and I was supposed to spend the Friday recovering. There was a big deal on at work and I ended up going into work that Friday.

Throughout that year I was only away from work 4 days. 1 for that operation and the 3 days between Xmas and New Year as holiday. Had to postpone a holiday in Florida because it was so busy.

In 36 years of working I think I've taken 1 or 2 days off for illness, another 1 due to a hangover plus a few months due to injury/hospitalisations.

Cupcake_Crisis

My head would need to be falling off to take a sick day, clients throw hissy fits if they have to see someone else. Think I’ve had 1 and a half in 4 years. And me a fatty with a bad immune system and all!

Fann Linn

If this weather continues into next week I'm gonna go down to the doc for a cert and take the week off.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Conservatory wrote: »

Check the teachers forum. There’s a thread right there. It could have been any forum. If you look through my after hours threads a lot of them start by reading another forum.

You mean the thread where the OP said about 'being told' of teachers taking a day per week and almost every reply (from teachers) said they never saw anything like that?

bucketybuck

CPTM wrote: »

I know people in big companies who have some weird pride in having no sick days over X amount of years. Absolute madness.

And I knew people who took pride in making sure they took their "sick" days every year. God forbid they take some pride in their work, no, instead work was a battlefield and they needed to take the most for doing the least.

People like that will never understand that a good work ethic is not about helping employers, its about your own self worth. Not to mention that the people taking unnecessary sick days are pretty much the sole reason many companies don't pay for sick days. Thanks guys.

Conservatory

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

My head would need to be falling off to take a sick day, clients throw hissy fits if they have to see someone else. Think I’ve had 1 and a half in 4 years. And me a fatty with a bad immune system and all!

Look, why are you getting so defensive? Nobody mentioned your weight. If it upsets you weigh up the pros and cons of changing it up. If it doesn’t, don’t. It has no bearing on the fact that when I walk along the beach on my holidays women will swoon and men will (to themselves) say asshole probably spends the other 50 weeks of the year in the gym. I won’t mind it’s one of the perks to having a physical job. I probably burn 1000 calories a day doing it. I eat a 5 pack of donuts sometimes on my afternoon break.

I’m not attacking you. Let’s all be friends.

theteal

I had zero sick days in the 11 years since I finished college. Then we had a little bundle of joy. The little fecker has had me laid low 3 time in her short 19 months life - rota virus aint fun!

spurious

Conservatory wrote: »

Reading the teachers forum there and I seen some of their co workers can miss a day a week.

That is not true as you would see if you read the thread.

Carry on with your teacher bashing without basis in truth.

I've taken them while sick. We generally get paid for them, there's no checking done til there's pisstaking as far as I know.

Cupcake_Crisis

Conservatory wrote: »

Look, why are you getting so defensive? Nobody mentioned your weight. If it upsets you weigh up the pros and cons of changing it up. If it doesn’t, don’t. It has no bearing on the fact that when I walk along the beach on my holidays women will swoon and men will (to themselves) say asshole probably spends the other 50 weeks of the year in the gym. I won’t mind it’s one of the perks to having a physical job. I probably burn 1000 calories a day doing it. I eat a 5 pack of donuts sometimes on my afternoon break.

I’m not attacking you. Let’s all be friends.

Lol, calm your tata’s pal, no ones getting defensive

Conservatory

bucketybuck wrote: »

And I knew people who took pride in making sure they took their "sick" days every year. God forbid they take some pride in their work, no, instead work was a battlefield and they needed to take the most for doing the least.

People like that will never understand that a good work ethic is not about helping employers, its about your own self worth. Not to mention that the people taking unnecessary sick days are pretty much the sole reason many companies don't pay for sick days. Thanks guys.

This is an excellent point and they are normally the legal experts too. They then spend the rest of their time talking about not getting paid enough or ringing boss for more money. They never leave though just take up space in a team so that 4 people have to do 5 people’s work.

Alf Veedersane

The OP that keeps on giving.

Works with lads hanging after a Sunday on the lash but teachers are the questionable profession because of something made up.

Thinks 10 months without a sick day is worthy of a mention. Well done on being a normal person.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Conservatory wrote: »

Look, why are you getting so defensive? Nobody mentioned your weight. If it upsets you weigh up the pros and cons of changing it up. If it doesn’t, don’t. It has no bearing on the fact that when I walk along the beach on my holidays women will swoon and men will (to themselves) say asshole probably spends the other 50 weeks of the year in the gym. I won’t mind it’s one of the perks to having a physical job. I probably burn 1000 calories a day doing it. I eat a 5 pack of donuts sometimes on my afternoon break.

I’m not attacking you. Let’s all be friends.

Ah ha! Thought it was you alright.




And the general 'defensiveness' ,as you put it, is because the premise in untrue.


Edit. 1000 calories a day? It's estimated that construction workers burn on average 306 per hour!

byhookorbycrook

Conservatory wrote: »

Reading the teachers forum there and I seen some of their co workers can miss a day a week.
I wouldn’t get paid if I missed a day. I might be offered to take it as a holiday.



I don’t drink on school nights and keep a healthy weight so I’d imagine that helps. Do you miss many days? Are you always late after smoking weed all night and playing x box? Do you take exactly as many days as you are entitled to on the companies sick day scheme?

Any insight into it?

Teachers can miss a day a week, really?News to me. If a teacher misses a Friday and a Monday, that counts as four days, so wouldn't be long adding up.

Since when are you"entitled" to take sick leave if you aren't sick?

Conservatory

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

The OP that keeps on giving.

Works with lads hanging after a Sunday on the lash but teachers are the questionable profession because of something made up.

Thinks 10 months without a sick day is worthy of a mention. Well done on being a normal person.

For the record I have no problem with teachers. I just read the thread op. Got bored with it and got thinking. Could have been any profession. Well any profession in the public sector (chortle chortle). But for the record this wasn’t made to bash teachers or brag about my sick record. I just thought some people would have some funny answers or stories and we could all laugh and be merry.
But some people don’t like merriment they just like giving out about assumptionisation and the public image of teachers and the value of what doctors say versus what they say.

Cupcake_Crisis

Roberto Acidic Mechanic wrote: »

Ah ha! Thought it was you alright.




And the general 'defensiveness' ,as you put it, is because the premise in untrue.


Edit. 1000 calories a day? It's estimated that construction workers burn on average 306 per hour!

He’s not very good at his job

Conservatory

Roberto Acidic Mechanic wrote: »

Ah ha! Thought it was you alright.




And the general 'defensiveness' ,as you put it, is because the premise in untrue.


Edit. 1000 calories a day? It's estimated that construction workers burn on average 306 per hour!

Ok so I probably burn 306 x 8 sometimes 10 and sometimes 12. I’ve had the odd day where I work on a site during the day then in a well known department store until 2 am because they can’t do construction when open.

I’m not a maths teacher but that’s easily 1000.

mookishboy

Have been off sick for 18 months in the last 2 years.
Mental health problems are hell.

Cupcake_Crisis

Conservatory wrote: »

Ok so I probably burn 306 x 8 sometimes 10 and sometimes 12. I’ve had the odd day where I work on a site during the day then in a well known department store until 2 am because they can’t do construction when open.

I’m not a maths teacher but that’s easily 1000.

Not very good at maths either. Interesting.

gmisk

I'd say maybe on average 1 or 2 a year max usually blooming sinus infections, but hate taking them.
A lot better since i had tonsils out about 7 or 8 years ago.

I haven't taken an official sick day in the 4 years or so in my current job, I just "work" from home if I'm sick or too hungover to go in.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Conservatory wrote: »

Ok so I probably burn 306 x 8 sometimes 10 and sometimes 12. I’ve had the odd day where I work on a site during the day then in a well known department store until 2 am because they can’t do construction when open.

I’m not a maths teacher but that’s easily 1000.

You can say that again.

Do you even know what calories are? Any moderately active adult will burn close to 2800 per day.

Alf Veedersane

Conservatory wrote: »

For the record I have no problem with teachers. I just read the thread op. Got bored with it and got thinking. Could have been any profession. Well any profession in the public sector (chortle chortle). But for the record this wasn’t made to bash teachers or brag about my sick record. I just thought some people would have some funny answers or stories and we could all laugh and be merry.
But some people don’t like merriment they just like giving out about assumptionisation and the public image of teachers and the value of what doctors say versus what they say.

And some people like making threads based on assumptions.

I'd hope you wouldn't brag about your sick record. It's that of a normal person. No need to be the martyr that pollutes the place with germs but I'd hope to be getting a few years run at a time without a genuine reason to take a sick day, what with being normal.

Conservatory

Roberto Acidic Mechanic wrote: »

You can say that again.

Do you even know what calories are? Any moderately active adult will burn close to 2800 per day.

Tsk tsk tsk. That’s on top of your 2800 a day. Do you even lift brah?

Conservatory

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

And some people like making threads based on assumptions.

I'd hope you wouldn't brag about your sick record. It's that of a normal person. No need to be the martyr that pollutes the place with germs but I'd hope to be getting a few years run at a time without a genuine reason to take a sick day, what with being normal.

I don’t get colds or flus , my BMI is robust. The new finger print scanners they have for security are a timebomb.