Stupid Award

[Trek420]

I just wish parents would keep their kids home if they are sneezing or coughing repeatedly.

V.

Well, if their parents work where I work it's not a normal job. We don't have sick days. Instead If I call in sick I'm paid, if I do it enough (a formula that varies wildly and is kept in a tower gaurded by elves) I'm fired.

Recently I called in sick, took the day which happened to be a Friday ... then came back. I find now I'm wildly considered daft by my coworkers not because I ride but because I did not take 3 days off. It's the same black mark on your attendance according to the formula in the tower to take 3 days off as 1 day and I'd be paid for all 3 so why not get better and take a mini vacation?

But I truly was not sick the other days. It's not that I'm devoted to my employer or work, it's a karma thing. If I needed the time I'd take it, I didn't.

If we had sick days then people like me who are (knock on wood) generally healthy could save those up and yes, use it for vacation or to get work done or whatever.

Instead we waste so much time first off as people trying to figure out how to "get over" on this system. And we have triple absentees of a simple "you have sick days, they accrue, use them, if you don't they carry over" system.

Congrats on your award V.