Adult Children by Stephen Beals for June 28, 2021

The last line says it all.

I have over 2 months of sick pay saved up, it accrues over time and I barely ever use it

After 20 years on the job I get 5 weeks vacation and 2 personal days, those are use them or lose them and I do use them

There are places when you quit, any unused vacation time is lost.

In Iceland, you earn two sick days with pay for each month you work for the same employer, up to a maximum of 360 days (including weekends). Employers can’t fire you while you’re away on sick leave. If you use all your sick leave, and still haven’t recovered, the union will pay you the same wages you had from your employer for the same amount of time as you sick leave, and your employer isn’t allowed to fire you during that time. A former coworker of mine got cancer and had to use the entire 720 days of paid sick leave he had earned before he was able to come back to work. Another former coworker of mine, at a different place, took two days off each month claiming to be sick. If he kept doing that and then got seriously sick, he would have been fired and not had any wages at all.

It is called abusing sick leave, and he should have been fired for doing it.

Sick of your job is not sick. Do your work.

“I can’t come in today, I have an eye problem- i just can’t see working today.”

“I’m calling in well. I feel much too good to work today. I’ll be back tomorrow if I feel worse.”