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Just got a really good job where they don’t have sick days but instead you can just call out sick whenever “on the honor system.” I want to take advantage of this but also don’t want to do it in a way that’s excessive or draws attention. So how many times would you say you call out sick per year/what seems like a believable amount of times to get sick?

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From what I understand which is not a reliable metric, the amount of headache your absence causes and how much visibility it has matters much more than the number. That's what gets people to notice or chatter respectively. Nobody wants to do your work nor get flak from higher up.

But you should of course always avoid getting others sick as much as you can because that's prime directive level cringe. So you might paint yourself into a corner indulging and then actually being sick.