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I used to a lot at my other job.......at least once a month
This job (which I have been at for a little over a year) I do not......only because its such an easy job! (although some nights are super stressful and emotionally draining). Also, I work in a small community and work w/ a lot of police, fire, EMTs, and all the people I work within live within the same area - I'd be afraid I'd take a "mental health" day and run into one of them!
EDIT: I have called out ONCE in the last year....because my dad was in the hospital and I was mess
I used to once in a while at my previous job but where I work now, if I call in sick they come rushing to my apt and take me to the doc's office so my answer is not anymore. =) It just became to awkward pretending I was sick.
I only work part-time (still in school) so if I don't work I lose out on the money for the day. During the school year I don't lose much if I take a day off, but during the summer one day off is about a $100 loss. In the big scheme of things it isn't a huge deal but being a student $100 can go a long way.
This summer I took one "mental health day" to just catch up on a bunch of stuff that I needed to get done. I felt so refreshed an ready to go back to work the next day so I don't regret the lost money.
In high school my mom always let me take mental health days. I was an honors/AP student and hated missing class so if I asked not to go to school she knew it was for good reason!
@babyboo: My mother NEVER let me miss school!!!!!!I skipped school one day in my senior year...stayed home to catch up on a major project (and a little shopping) and got caught (school called my mom at work). If I was sick....no matter if I was on my deathbed....I still had to drag my ass to school.
I honestly can't I feel SOOO guilty calling out of work. I do try to schedule an extra nonpay day off when I need it. I just hate missing work and letting people down...it makes me feel so horrible!
And, the job that I have, it is so hard to miss a day without letting one of my clients down...so I typically work through anything unless you know I am in the hospital..:D
No I never take a day off unless I'm sick or it's a pre-scheduled day off for a valid reason. My job is super demanding and if I miss a day, work piles up and it really lets people down. Plus I have required yearly billable hours so I'm only screwing myself if I play hookie.
this took a while to get used to. My parents never made me go to school. I was an honors/AP, straight A student so they knew I was responsible enough to make the decision of whether to go to school or not. And in college I took as many days off as I wanted. so yeah, this took a while to get used to.
I like it when companies give you "personal days" instead of sick days. That way you don't have to lie, which let's face it, most people do. Who cares if I'm staying home with a chronic migraine or because I couldn't sleep well last night or because I need the day to run errands? Point is I'm entitled to certain number of paid off days and it doesn't matter if my health is better than other people's.
@meliss: I agree with you! We get three personal days a year in addition to sick and vacation but its manager's discretion and our manager only allows you to use them if someone DIES...I miss my old job where all my leave was PTO and just dumped into one big pot. I do think separating it screws people who aren't sick much.
I'm actually on my "mental health day" today! I scheduled it ahead of time, and my company has a use it or lose it policy for our PTO, so I have to use it anyway! But I figure, I have a free day to hang out and watch tv and not do a damn thing!
We get a TON of sick days, but only 10 vacation days a year (in addition to a week off around the holidays and federal holidays) and i've been known to take sick days on days I just want a day off....mental health day. It's encouraged and nobody cares if you take them--unless you take it on a big meeting day or something important. =]
I think the big difference to me is scheduling days off in advance or just calling out of a shift people expect you to work. For the former, I don't really care what you do with those days -- whether it's personal time, sick time, or whatever. But unless it is a real illness or an emergency, it drives me nuts when people just call out because then others have to carry the slack.
I called out last year when my mom was in the hospital. Otherwise, I schedule in a "me" day every few months.
@Amaryllis, I think i'd have trouble taking days off if it meant shafting my teammates with more work (like if i was a nurse or something, and there were 2 people on the floor). I'd feel so guilty!
I do because my work only gives us one per quarter and if we dont use them, we loose them. So if I dont actually get sick that quarter, I take a "mental health day".
I hardly ever do...I feel way too guilty! I"ve been working for my current job for about a year and a half and have taken one sick day and one personal day. But I'm forcing myself to buck up and take a few days before the wedding for my sanity.
At my old job, I used to call out "sick" all the time - it was a horrible place to work.
At my current job, I rarely do, for several reasons. First of all, when you take an unscheduled day off, the work piles up SO MUCH that it's barely worth it to do so. Also, we have laptops that we take home, so even if we're sick, we're usually doing some work from home. When I'm sick, I usually do about 75% of the work I'd do on a regular day - I just do it in my PJ's and take mini naps in between calls.
But my job is really good about letting you take scheduled time off whenever you want. Last Thursday, I decided I wanted to take Friday off, and it was fine with my boss.
In old jobs I used to all the time. In this one I really dont for two reasons. 1) I work from home a lot so even if I'm sick... I'm working. I'd have to be REALLY sick to be incapable of using a laptop. 2) My boss is really nice. If I want a day off, I take a day off. I don't have to lie about it. :)
@Statutory Grape: or, "the runs." Hahaha! (In theory anyway; I've never actually called in to work and said that, but I'll bet they wouldn't ask questions!)
I usually schedule my mental health days; I know when I'm going to need one. I also take days off every now and then to run errands, but they are scheduled and vacation days, not sick days.
But yes, I have called in. I try not to do it more than twice a year or so. But I accrue 2 vacay days and 1 sick day each month, so I kind of have a lot.
they give me time off, i'm taking it. done and done.
luckily i work at the kind of place where they don't care if you're actually sick or what you're doing. i'm pretty sure "man, my band had a gig last night and that's why i'm late" is a perfectly acceptable excuse.
I don't do it very often, most of the time it's because I'm having a severe IBS episode (agony) or a legitimate migraine.
At my old job, I had 15 vacation days and 'unlimited' sick days, so I used to call out every once in a while when I needed a mental health day. It was an awful place to work so I probably did this at least once a month. I didn't fool anyone, they totally knew I wasn't sick and called me out on it in a passive aggressive way. Looking back, it probably negatively affected my raise and bonus also.
At my current job I have never done this and don't plan on ever doing it unless it's REALLY necessary. The vacation is different, we have PTO days that are used for everything except jury duty and funeral leave so if I call out it takes away from my PTO. Plus, I LOVE my job, it isn't stressful and believe it or not I'd rather be here than sitting alone in my apartment (obviously unless I was legitimately sick). And like others, if I call out the work just piles up so I might as well come in. And one last point, my managers are awesome and wouldn't care if on Thursday I said I was taking a PTO day Friday, so I don't ever feel trapped.
I have 15 pto days a year and that's my vacation AND sick leave. So I really don't want to call off unless I'm deathly ill.
Yes! Mental health days are the BEST. I rarely get sick and I hate that my co. divides days into "personal" "vacation" & "sick" - if I don't get sick I get 5 less days off work than someone else (yes, I get that they are sick and not having a good time, but there's no reward for me being around the extra 5 days).
My previous company would just give you x number of "days off" so you had to budget them yourself (i.e. if you get sick alot - you'd keep more days for that, if you rarely get sick you could use an extra couple days for vacation).
i wish i could some days, but with constant short staffing, there would be no one to cover for me and since i'm responsible for taking care of animals i really just can't leave them hanging...
My job is unnecessary, so if I take a day off no one really notices :) If I mention before I leave that I think I'm coming down with something my boss will usually tell me to take the next day off. This is a complete 180 from my last job where you had to be there no matter what! I had a 104 degree fever and asked to leave and my boss said it wasn't possible. I worked with infants. That is a job I do not miss.
@Ei: Oh I can understand that. Also, when I used to work retail I NEVER did it because I'd feel bad leaving the team short staffed for the day. Now I work a job where it doesn't really matter if I come in or not...lol. And I don't always have vacation time when I need a day off because our time acrrues so sometimes it takes a while before i have any.
Side note: my fiance's new job has sick/vac/personal, but they actually give you six extra hours of vac per such amount of time you have perfect attendance. I think that's awesome and definitely gives healthy people an incentive not to need our mental health days! He's lucky!
sometimes you need a personal day!!! I don't do it very often, but once every few months it's just time to do it!
Once I did it and convinced my Boyfriend to do it too. We layed out by the pool and had an awesome day (I did feel a little guilty), now we always have to talk each other out of doing it agian.
I agree with the others. I prefer when companies offer Paid Time Off that can be used for vacation, sick, mental health days, etc. In my opinion, companies who offer sick days are rewarding those who take less care of themselves than those who do. As a manager, as long as an employee has enough days off in the bank, it doesn't matter to me if it was used for a vacation, to get better from an illness, or to interview for another company. Employees are entitled to days off. Good managers will recognize that and encourage their employees to do so.
i have the type of job that is super demanding and i rarely even get the chance to call out - so i have like 300 hours of sick leave. so when i call out sick, my boss KNOWS im sick, so i dont feel bad about it. but with the wedding coming up and my stress level i have done a few mental health days (mind you they were migranes) because i cant literally do my job if i am in pain of any sort.
but i really dont like folks who call out all the time for no reason. makes more work for the other folks in the office (and for my job if you call out you best not be seen out and about in the city!)
yup. Have done it, but not that often. I get two weeks vacation but no sick days (really sucks).
I typically don't do it now, despite the temptation because I really can't afford it! If I could... that'd be a different story ;)
I don't do it unless I'm schedule for a vacation or actually sick. My mental health days are Saturday and Sunday when I don't work or volunteer.
Never. I'm pretty lucky that we have separate vacation, personal, sick days, and bereavement days. So I've never just called out. I've never even taken a sick day, but that's a good thing bc I haven't really been sick in the past two years. But I can't say I'm not jealous of my friends that call out sick and then lay out all day.
In the 5 years I've been here, I've rarely have ever 'called out'. If I have, it was because of something I genuinely needed to take care of that day. Not just to veg all day. However, I usually plan mental health days a little ahead of time. I think, if you have the time to take and you're not totally screwing anyone over, you should take time to just have some 'me time'. I'm lucky in that my boss (while for the most part she's a passive aggressive jerk) is really flexible about my requests. If I give her even just a days notice, she doesn't mind. As long as you get your work done, ya know?
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