Perfect Attendance

joejoem

Anyone ever done it, whats the longest you have gone without missing a day?
I just realised I went a year without a sick day. I had a few vacation days allways asked for in advance but never called in sick. Shouldnt I get a cheap gold watch or something?

Pacifico

2 Years never rang in sick.

Had holidays though, obviously....

whiskeyman

Pacifico wrote:

2 Years never rang in sick.

and you survived that train crash where there were no other survivors.... has Elijah (aka Mr Glass) chased you down yet?

Kiera

When I worked in Ryanair they put you into a draw if you went 3 months without a sick day. The prizes were (pounds at the time) £500, £300 + £100. And if you went a year without a sick day your name was put into a draw for a jeep. As you can figure there were about 4 people in that draw so it was pretty exciting for them.

joejoem

Kiera wrote:

And if you went a year without a sick day your name was put into a draw for a jeep. As you can figure there were about 4 people in that draw so it was pretty exciting for them.

Holy crap!

Kiera

I never got put into any of the draws

joejoem

Was it one of these jeeps?

Kiera

Haha, you’ve waaaaaay too much time on your hands, M!!!!

Pigman II

joejoem wrote:

Was it one of these jeeps?

Sweet! Let's hope none of the pilots were turning up sick for work in the hopes of staying in the draw for that jeep.

Kiera

Pigman II wrote:

Sweet! Let's hope none of the pilots were turning up sick for work in the hopes of staying in the draw for that jeep.

No, it was just for head office.

Tar.Aldarion

in all of primary and secondary school i was only out of school once, due to pneumonia.

BrianD3

I am 27 and haven't had a sick day from work/college/school since I was about 14. I am rarely sick and even when I am the worst I'll have is a runny nose and a bit of a cough i.e. not enough to warrant taking time off. Most people who take lots of sick days need to take a look at their behaviour and lifestyles. A small cut on your finger is not a valid reason for taking a sick day. Going out at the weekend, getting hammered and then taking a sick day on the monday is not a valid excuse. I also find that fat people, smokers and those who stuff themselevs with junk food tend to take more sick days. Probably due to weakened immune systems. Also IME women take far more sick days than men.

Kiera

BrianD3 wrote:

Also IME women take far more sick days than men.

How do you figure this????

dar83

Kiera wrote:

How do you figure this????

Severe PMS and to a higher degree, bad hair days. Cost the tax payer millions a year.* :rolleyes:





*may not be true.

danniemcq

i honestly don't think i've ever missed a day cause of sickness (although i didn't go to FAS once cause i just got Halo 2 if that counts) i even finished my workin day in Dunnes after i tore my abdominal muscle. and Dar83 i've a feelin you've made some powerful enemies!

Kiera

No way! You are soooo wrong! It’s a fact that women have a higher pain threshold than men! If a man gets a little cut he goes on about it for ages! If he goes to work with that little cut he expects to be rewarded for it. Us women fight it and get on with what we have to do and don’t expect sympathy for something as minute as that!! I’m not posting on this topic anymore, I’m getting a wee bit annoyed!

dar83

danniemcq wrote:

and Dar83 i've a feelin you've made some powerful enemies!

Well anyone without a sense of humour doesn't deserve my attention anyway.

Cheer up Kiera, I'm sure you made your boss a lovely cup of tea, he'll add it to your references when he sacks you for rebuffing his advances and feels he doesn't have 100% control over you anymore.



And yes, I'm completely taking the piss....

Civilian_Target

I've only once ever taken a full sick day from work - I took 2 half days though - once when I fell off my bike and had to go to casualty and once when I got mild food poisoning.

BrianD3

Kiera wrote:

How do you figure this????

Well in any place I've worked, the vast majority of sick days were taken by women. In contrast, many of the men would go years without taking a single sick day. And it's not as if they were too macho to take a sick day and would come in dying. They just never seemed to be sick.

I believe women taking more sick days isn't just down menstruation related sickness but also due to the fact that many women eat junk, go on fad diets, smoke and take no interest in exercise and sport. IMO men tend to look after themselves better and their immune systems are probably stronger as a result.

Mr. CooL ICE

BrianD3 wrote:

I am 27 and haven't had a sick day from work/college/school since I was about 14. I am rarely sick and even when I am the worst I'll have is a runny nose and a bit of a cough i.e. not enough to warrant taking time off. Most people who take lots of sick days need to take a look at their behaviour and lifestyles. A small cut on your finger is not a valid reason for taking a sick day. Going out at the weekend, getting hammered and then taking a sick day on the monday is not a valid excuse. I also find that fat people, smokers and those who stuff themselevs with junk food tend to take more sick days. Probably due to weakened immune systems. Also IME women take far more sick days than men.

This is true. Im 20, and a student on work experience at the moment. In any of my jobs, be it my current one, past summer jobs, or anything related, ive never called in sick. I have been sick with, say, a cough, but nothing more than that. In school, i had great attendance, never missing more than (i reckon) 2 days per year, and most of those werent due to sickness, more like funerals or anything else predetermined. But i never actually got perfect attendance.

And about women... That is true IMO, but they do have an excuse.

danniemcq

dar83 wrote:

Well anyone without a sense of humour doesn't deserve my attention anyway.

Cheer up Kiera, I'm sure you made your boss a lovely cup of tea, he'll add it to your references when he sacks you for rebuffing his advances and feels he doesn't have 100% control over you anymore.



And yes, I'm completely taking the piss....

haha i can hear Kiera sharpening her knifes in the background!

Larianne

I didn't miss a single day of 1st year in school. Got an award and all for it! That all went out the window in the following years!!

Only missed 5 days of college in 2 years which is pretty good I think.

jonny68

This year ive missed about 10 days in total,5 of those i was genuinely sick,i sprained my ankle and cut my face badly and was in no fit state to attend work,the rest of the days were (stupidly) taken off because of my ex bird(long story :rolleyes: )i try not to miss days,if i want days off in my job it's not really a problem althugh you wont get paid unless you take a holiday and unfortunately ive no holiday days lef to take right now.

Sparky

in collage id say i missed 10 days for the whole year, but in work and ive been working four years and ive never been out sick.
Good eh
Right wheres my award.

de5p0i1er

I haven't missed a day since mid feb last year.

Mr.Nice Guy

My attendance isn't too great but I don't care. Life's too short. There's nothing wrong with calling in sick in order to enjoy life...by watching This Morning.

dermo88

I have'nt taken a day sick since April 2001 when I was involved in a car crash. I was discharged from hospital, and attempted to go to work the day I was discharged, disobeying my boss's instructions to stay at home and relax.

Fell over on crutches, and was sent home immediately, and allowed back a week later.

Otherwise, I drink, smoke, and eat reasonably well, but I won't go sick at the drop of a hat, for that very reason. My mates at work know what I am like and that I won't let them down.

Strange, when I worked at a high street bookies, I'd go to work on St Stephens Day, New Years Day, and guess what. How many of the lads were sick. NONE. How many of the women, 6 of them.

What happened next. I was shuttled off to another shop.

The General Manager used to say "I won't employ many men, they are more tempted by gambling and stroking the till".

How many of the male staff in 10 years were found stroking. None.

How many of the women in the space of 2 years.

6, including 1 union stop steward who went off on a power trip at me, when I questioned cash shortages that should never have happened.

The GM had a few questioned to answer there, when I said.

"We all gamble, we all have a flutter on the horses, but the lads always fax through our bets as proof that they are honest, and how much have the tills been short in their shops?"

Eh......he was speechless (It was officially against rules to bet, but we all did it once we faxed through the bets, it was not always possible to slip out on a lunchbreak and get a bet down)

BlitzKrieg

when i was in school, i went almost 2 years without a sick day (5th and 6th year) until the week before leaving cert (doesnt count as attendence but pisses me off) where i came down with a mild ill.

I actually have excellent attendence. 90% of the days i have missed over my life have been either me faking an illness back in primary school or just not getting up in university (and shockingly that was quite rare.)

Cabaal

Kiera wrote:

No way! You are soooo wrong! It’s a fact that women have a higher pain threshold than men!

Really do they?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4641567.stm

Women are bigger wimps than men when it comes to pain, research suggests, contrary to the popular notion that the reverse is true.

Now back your theory up
Also your idea is not a fact it is a belief

newgrange

A lot of days that women take off are not in fact sick days for themselves, but sick child days.....why these children's fathers don't take time off is of course another story....

Dave

I've taken 1 in all the jobs I've worked in, and it wasn't a sick day. Went out the night before, got home at around 05:30, I was up for work in an hour, so I decided, **** it.

silvo

During 15 years of school i missed two days in total. Working for the last 5 years or so never missed one day on a sicky.

Rhyme

In my primary school you'd get a certificate if you were present every day of school in a year... i never got one, my attendance in college is pretty good though...

Kiera

Cabaal wrote:

Really do they?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4641567.stm


Now back your theory up
Also your idea is not a fact it is a belief

Ok ok ok, I stand corrected

Now i'm defo not posting on this topic anymore

Cianos

Wow...I cant believe how up everyone is on their attendance?! I have missed countless days in work and school and college. In fact, Im on one now!! I dont see the point in attending when your just going to feel like crap for the whole day. Its better to take it easy and sort your Chi out, rather than prolong the sickness by not looking after yourself. Besides, whats so bad about not going in anyway?

Rhyme

Cianos wrote:

Besides, whats so bad about not going in anyway?

You miss stuff... like coursework and paycheques

Cianos

Rhyme wrote:

You miss stuff... like coursework and paycheques

meh...you can catch up on coursework, and unless your really stuck for money I dont think one days pay is worth struggling through work for...much prefer to be takin it easy.

Mossy Monk

Cianos wrote:

I dont think one days pay is worth struggling through work for...much prefer to be takin it easy.

wow, thats the spirit :rolleyes:

ionapaul

Hmm, when I take a sick-day at work I get paid for it, where are these places that don't pay you! I think after 3 days they can choose not to pay you, but I doubt many office-type jobs do that unless you've been off a week.

ionapaul

I also wouldn't go through a year without taking at least 3 or 4 sick days - otherwise the real sickies are getting one over on us healthies! And that wouldn't do at all Are people so wedded to their job that they won't take one sick day because it would hurt them to 'let the team down'?

Mossy Monk

where i work they wont pay you for the first 2 days sick and then 80% there after

Lainey

I take a sick day every three or four months.. i actually feel sick in morning when wake then around ten feel better.. i think i lie to myself a lot

Red Alert

in college i tend to come in most of the time, not always a full day mind. only job i ever did sickies was one i hated anyway.

Kolodny

I'm in my current job just over 3 years and I've had 2 consecutive sick days (was in hospital) and was sent home on 2 different occasions when I arrived in sick (not sure if these count as 'sick days'). But I would attribute this to liking my job. By comparison, I was in my previous job (which I hated) for a year and took 8 sick days and not once was I actually ill!

Dizzyblabla

I didn't miss one day for 4 years in school, then I took a day off to go sing in a concert with a choir in my leaving cert....
I've called in sick once, but I was dying with the flu... on numerous occasions my boss has told me that I should go home sick though!!

kmart6

In alll of primary school and all of secondary do far(im in 6th year) I've only missed two days of school and that was to attend a wedding in Wales!

Killian

OLDYELLAR

took one day this year so far .Go me!

Tuesday_Girl

My last sick day was in Feb 1998, for an interview, so that's 7 years and 8 months.