Comments on: Speaking of sick days… http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/ Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:34:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Michelle Goodman http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-4693 Michelle Goodman Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:22:44 +0000 http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-4693 ooooh, the 'ole retainer arrangement. nice, erin! ooooh, the ‘ole retainer arrangement. nice, erin!

]]> By: Erin Blaskie http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-4539 Erin Blaskie Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:01:51 +0000 http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-4539 Being self-employed, I don't get paid for sick days BUT I do have one contract at the moment that is a set rate every month regardless of whether I am in the office working each day or not. I suppose this allows me to feel a bit better about sick days but what scares me even more is the thought of someday needing maternity leave... :) Erin Blaskie Being self-employed, I don’t get paid for sick days BUT I do have one contract at the moment that is a set rate every month regardless of whether I am in the office working each day or not. I suppose this allows me to feel a bit better about sick days but what scares me even more is the thought of someday needing maternity leave… :)

Erin Blaskie

]]> By: Michelle Goodman http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-3985 Michelle Goodman Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:35:46 +0000 http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-3985 wow, all of this is disconcerting, though not surprising. and that MEMO shit is scary. (!) in the (U.S.) work situations you all describe, employees seem to only have it moderately better than self-employed types. yes, employees get more paid days off, but in return they get MEMOS from management and exposure to extra germs. yay. thanks for sharing your tales of worklife woe, everyone. wow, all of this is disconcerting, though not surprising. and that MEMO shit is scary. (!) in the (U.S.) work situations you all describe, employees seem to only have it moderately better than self-employed types. yes, employees get more paid days off, but in return they get MEMOS from management and exposure to extra germs. yay.

thanks for sharing your tales of worklife woe, everyone.

]]> By: Anne http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-3972 Anne Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:53:41 +0000 http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-3972 Laura - It does work the way you imagine. Productivity decreases and stress increases as you watch the virus snake its way through the office, taking down your co-workers one at a time until it finally reaches you. At my ex-job, I was fortunate enough to get separate sick and vacation time, but, if you used what was considered too many of your sick days (7 out of 10, for example) you got THE MEMO suggesting you might have excessive absences and therefore decreased productivity. So, people ended up taking personal vacation time or coming to work sick to avoid having THE MEMO in their file. Corporations tend to not trust their workers when it comes to sick leave policies, thus the above mess. Laura - It does work the way you imagine. Productivity decreases and stress increases as you watch the virus snake its way through the office, taking down your co-workers one at a time until it finally reaches you.
At my ex-job, I was fortunate enough to get separate sick and vacation time, but, if you used what was considered too many of your sick days (7 out of 10, for example) you got THE MEMO suggesting you might have excessive absences and therefore decreased productivity. So, people ended up taking personal vacation time or coming to work sick to avoid having THE MEMO in their file. Corporations tend to not trust their workers when it comes to sick leave policies, thus the above mess.

]]> By: Lynne http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-3968 Lynne Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:27:25 +0000 http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-3968 The combined sick/vacation time effectively prevents me from planning vacations, so I work until I'm burnt out and - you got it - sick. The combined sick/vacation time effectively prevents me from planning vacations, so I work until I’m burnt out and - you got it - sick.

]]> By: Sabrina http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-3936 Sabrina Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:48:00 +0000 http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-3936 Well, I do get paid days off work, and a good amount, for the US anyway. :) But there's no difference between Vacation and Sick time. That amounts to people coming in when they are sick because they don't want to "waste" vacation time. I know I do it. It's especially stinging since we used to have separate sick time and it was "combined" a few years ago. And by combined I mean reduced. Well, I do get paid days off work, and a good amount, for the US anyway. :) But there’s no difference between Vacation and Sick time. That amounts to people coming in when they are sick because they don’t want to “waste” vacation time. I know I do it. It’s especially stinging since we used to have separate sick time and it was “combined” a few years ago. And by combined I mean reduced.

]]> By: Laura http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-3927 Laura Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:33:05 +0000 http://www.anti9to5guide.com/2007/02/27/speaking-of-sick-days/#comment-3927 Wow, stuff like this makes me glad I live in Canada. What I don't get is, how do your corporations not clue in that if they don't pay their workers for sick days, then they'll come to work because they need the money, and they'll get everyone else sick? Then what happens to productivity? I believe it's more cost-effective in the end for a company to pay sick days and then one person can stay home while sick, miss maybe 3-4 days of work. They'll be productive when they return because they are healthy again, and nobody else will miss work or lose productivity as a result of sickness that has been passed on to them Wow, stuff like this makes me glad I live in Canada. What I don’t get is, how do your corporations not clue in that if they don’t pay their workers for sick days, then they’ll come to work because they need the money, and they’ll get everyone else sick? Then what happens to productivity? I believe it’s more cost-effective in the end for a company to pay sick days and then one person can stay home while sick, miss maybe 3-4 days of work. They’ll be productive when they return because they are healthy again, and nobody else will miss work or lose productivity as a result of sickness that has been passed on to them

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