Inspired by this CBC piece reporting on the skyrocketing number of sick days being taken by OC Transpo drivers (no, I’m not surprised), I thought I’d express my opinion on when it is – and is not – OK to call in sick.
Go ahead and make the call
- You have been throwing up like an engineer during frosh week
- You have been expelling the contents of your bowels in a non-stop fashion.
- Coughing so badly that you can be heard by staff 2 floors above or below. Or, so badly that you sound like a smoker with emphysema on a bad day.
- Stuff is coming out of your nose that is green, yellow or red. And you have to rid your sinus passages of these wonderful liquid every 60 seconds or so.
- You pass out during a Board. For non-guvvies, that is a meeting where one is grilled for an hour or so to determine whether or not you should get a promotion. It’s a pretty important thing to stay awake for.
- You have been diagnosed with something really communicable. Like Ebola, for instance.
Um, I think you’re well enough, don’t you?
- You are using the pretence of being sick as a non-strike job action (see opening paragraph).
- You just called the course to see if there was a 9 am tee-time available.
- Avoidance of a meeting.
- Coughing less than 3 times per hour for a duration of less than 5 seconds per occurrence.
- Your fave team has an afternoon game.
- You’re well enough to go for your morning run.
- You HAVE to use all of my annual allotment of sick days.
- Your justification is “aw, I NEED a mental health day!”
Any others?
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