Calling Off to Retain Sanity

[SpunGirl]

How often do you call in sick to retain your sanity? I've missed one day of work since we began work in April (about a month prior to the April 28th opening). This morning I woke up and didn't feel good and Jake was like, "why don't you call off?" and I was like, "nevar!"

But then I decided I would benefit mentally and physically from an unscheduled day off. Currently I'm eating a turkey sandwich and trying to decide whether to spend the day watching the LOTR discs, the first 3 Harry Potter discs or an all-day Family Guy Extravaganza!

I'm going to catch up on mentor hours, finish my laundry and spend some time adding to my "to be done" alterations list.

Because I'll accomplish so much, I don't feel guilty at all.

-K

[Asha]

I do that when I'm sick of the job and after a day of realising I hate it so much, I don't usually ever go back.
I've never felt guilty. More relieved.

[Sean]

I took one last week after a rough night. I never take vacation days though just because I hate the feeling when I come back afterwards. So by using sick days for my mental health which I've only done twice I'll do it after a major project when I have nothing to do.

[DeV]

Everytime we finish a major project at work I'll try to take a day off. At least once every couple of months. It's almost like a necessity.

[Jorddyn]

Once or twice a year. I usually tell my boss why I'm taking the day off and that I'll still be reachable, and he doesn't care.

Jorddyn

[Skirmisher]

Mental health day ftw.

[Czeska]

I'd kind of like to call off from home sometimes, who do I call to do that?

[Alfster]

I called in 12 times in August....now i can't call in for another 4 months or so.

I hate my job

[Vixen]

My job, if you can call it that, is so pathetically easy that I could never call out. And since I am the only one there when I work. Thered be no one to call out to.

But when I worked before I had the baby, I had to take a "mental health day" every so often just to preserve me from the burnout.

[Jorddyn]

Originally posted by Czeska
I'd kind of like to call off from home sometimes, who do I call to do that?

In order --

1. Husband/Wife/SO
2. Mother/Father/In-law
3. Closest friend with no children
4. Closest friend with children
5. Closest daycare center
6. Closest social services office
7. Police
8. Travel agent

I recommend combining 7 and 8. Call police, tell them children are all alone, call travel agent, leave country.

Jorddyn, obviously does not have kids

[Sean of the Thread]

I didn't miss a day of work in 5 years and I'm a alcoholic... minus hospitalization for 3 weeks for meningitis.

I use to hate the thought of missing work for some reason. Felt like things would get WAY behind.

[Wyndshadow]

I'd feel to guilty to take a day off.Plus I am a worry-wort and would not be able to relax thinking of the bills I could pay for my family.It's tuff.In fact since working with the company I am in I have only called in when someone in my family needed me (deaths:going to doctors:and such).I don't even call in when I am sick.Have you ever tried working in a business that you were expected to talk and you had no voice?Not easy thing.

[SpunGirl]

Yeah, I've come in to work before with no voice and answered phones all day. It was especially fun when working for Station Casinos, because I had the little old Asian dude in the baccarat pit giving me tips on tea-remedies every time he called to tell me they were shuffling.

I'd rather go to work physically sick than mentally strained. I can do my job with a cough, runny nose, sick stomach, whatever. But I know that when I'm considering playing hooky when I'm not REALLY that sick, it means my brain needs a day off.

-K

PS My ironing is all done YAY

[Sean]

Originally posted by SpunGirl
Yeah, I've come in to work before with no voice and answered phones all day. It was especially fun when working for Station Casinos, because I had the little old Asian dude in the baccarat pit giving me tips on tea-remedies every time he called to tell me they were shuffling.

I'd rather go to work physically sick than mentally strained. I can do my job with a cough, runny nose, sick stomach, whatever. But I know that when I'm considering playing hooky when I'm not REALLY that sick, it means my brain needs a day off.

-K

PS My ironing is all done YAY

While I agree with you 100% that I'd rather go in sick and either fight through the day or be told to go home than go into work mentally drained I'm pretty sure my bosses think the opposite. They'd rather me be dumb for the day than come into work and infect everyone else. We've already had 1 nasty cold circulate this year in the office thanks to one intern who came in and coughed on everything.

[Showal]

I call them Preemptive Sick Days. Days I take off because if I don't, I'll become sick from stress. Initially, I think I called in two times total the first 6 months, actually, I only called in once and was sent home sick the second time. Then it got more frequent as I stopped enjoying my job.

Now I don't take sick days, I just take vacation days since I have a ton built up and I'm going on a bunch of job interviews. Vacation days are a lot neater and less guilty. Getting a new job, however, will effectively transfer the stress imposed on me back on to my boss when he realizes they're down a competant surgeon and will have to train a new hire. The stress washes away too when I got a job offer paying 1 1/3 what i'm making now. I predict come next week, I will be taking much less time off again.

[Berylla]

I've called in sick twice in the past year but it takes me so long to catch up that it's really not worth it. Besides, all my customers have my cell phone # so I spend just as much time on the phone when I'm sick as when I'm healthy!

Sometimes responsibility really sucks...

[Apotheosis]

My sanity decided to call off a long time ago.

[Artha]

Once every couple of months, or thereabouts.

[Jazuela]

I don't get paid sick days anymore. When I worked in the corporate world, we had more paid time off than any of us could possibly need. Never had to lie about being sick though. I'd just call the boss and tell her I'm taking a sick day. She didn't ask if I was sick, I didn't tell her, and it didn't matter.

[ElanthianSiren]

None in like 5-6 years.

-M
(my momly-mentor is a workaholic)

[4a6c1]

Haha! Like...once a month.

My new fav routine is to disappear into the woods of a State Park for an entire day, turn my cellphone off, and try really, really hard to get myself lost hiking. I've had to explain before that its necessary that I do this instead of kill employees and suffer a high turnover rate that might damage the company rep.

[DeV]

Originally posted by Jazuela
When I worked in the corporate world, we had more paid time off than any of us could possibly need. Never had to lie about being sick though. I'd just call the boss and tell her I'm taking a sick day. She didn't ask if I was sick, I didn't tell her, and it didn't matter. That is exactly how it is for me now.

[SpunGirl]

I want to work for Jihna.

-K

[Tisket]

I get one sick day a month. I take one sick day a month. I hope I never actually GET sick because I would be so screwed.

[Skirmisher]

Originally posted by SpunGirl
I want to work for Jihna.

-K
But then she'll want to keeeel j00!!111

[Leetahkin]

I don't get sick days at work, but they give us almost 3 weeks of vacation, holiday days, excused days off to take when we want.

I am also more apt to trudge to work if I'm not feeling well. The deal-breaker with that though, is if I'm throwing up. That's an automatic call off, use vacation time.

Taking time off usually makes me feel like I wasted a day off for nothing, so I try to be selective with the 'sanity' days off. Weekends are usually for that, if needed.

Then again, type and stress of a job would be a good determining factor if more sanity days were needed. I don't work with the public, so I don't need to take refresher days off than say if I worked as a cashier for Wal-Mart (been there, done that. Holiday cashiering sucks).

[Snapp]

I've called out sick once in the past 7 years. That's dedication (or flat-out stupidity).

[AnticorRifling]

I'm a work-aholic. I don't know what I'd do without work and I seem to always be here. I don't call in. I come into work until I'm told to go home and get rest because I always feel there is more to be done. I take vacation but my vacation this year was to go down to Mexico and build houses (mixing concrete by hand, buidling cinderblock homes, carrying concrete up a scaffold, etc). That's the first vacation I've taken in 4 years. I always carry days over.

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Skirmisher
But then she'll want to keeeel j00!!111 Word association tells a slightly different story:

http://forum.gsplayers.com/viewthread.php?tid=13213&page=74

3rd and 4th posts in.

[Edited on 11-16-2005 by Latrinsorm]

[Wezas]

I volunteered to stay home with the sick kid yesterday (the wife stayed home Monday).

Of course I pick the one day WoW is down for maintenance.

As for mental health days, not since the kid's been here. Before that it was rare and the boss was told that I wasn't feeling well.

[kranfer]

I wish I could call in sick to work. Unfortunately if I do, I get to work from home then. Damn VPN.

[SpunGirl]

Originally posted by Skirmisher

Originally posted by SpunGirl
I want to work for Jihna.

-K
But then she'll want to keeeel j00!!111

Nah, every boss I've ever had has loved me. If the people that work for her are really that retarded, I'd be her star employee!

-K

[TheRoseLady]

I'm reviving this thread because I called off today for a mental health break. The last time I called off was last March.

I have the time but damn do I feel guilty. :grr:

I need a new job. :yes:

[Wezas]

[09:40] *** Backlash has joined the chat.
[09:40] Backlash: sick day ftw
[09:40] Dougl: What ya sick with?
[09:40] Backlash: sick of working
[09:41] Dougl: understandable

[09:43] Backlash: I gave my two week notice last tuesday lol
[09:43] Dougl: and using up your sick leave
[09:43] Dougl: rofl
[09:43] Backlash: Thats kinda messed up
[09:44] Skirm: omg you gave notice and now are taking sick days?
[09:44] Skirm: milking it ftw
[09:45] Backlash: Ill go in tomorrow no big

[Amaron]

I took one last Thursday...

That was the day the builders decided to work on the house. The dog threw up and I had to clean the carpet and there was so much laundry I might as well have stayed at work

grin

J

[Ebondale]

Being in the military kind of prevents me from calling in sick.

Years back I worked at Target. I called them one time and told them that I fell out of bed and "now I cant see!" They bought it. That was the best day off EVAR!1one

[Sylvan Dreams]

My sick days didn't roll from one year to the next, so I always used up the entire week that I was allotted before the year was up.