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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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[–] BGDelirium@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

I have FMLA for my medically fragile daughter but only use it very sparingly because as seems to be theme of the thread, it would fuck over an understaffed workplace. Probably 4-6 days last year would be my guess.

But like @abc said, so many of my coworkers call out a shitton and it can be mad frustrating.

I'm also one of two people that masks everyday (out of 60plus staff) for the main purpose of not bringing something home to my daughter and having to stay at the hospital for a night or more.