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Originally Posted by Sliver
haha yeah I find it hilarious when people don't take sick days and #### on people who do, but as soon as you just change the word to "flex" days from "sick" days people will take every last one.
I did away with "sick" days at my work and just call them "flex" days so I don't have to hear from busy-bodies who have suspicions that so-and-so wasn't actually sick when they didn't come in yesterday. Like, I don't fataing care. People need a day off sometimes. I also just pay out all unused flex days at year-end. It just seems so much more fair.
But not using your sick days through the year? Good job, hero. lol.
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I get what you do Sliver, but perhaps not as militant and extreme as the way you describe it. I agree in general to what you do and it's what I do as well. Overall though the company I work at is a family. Everyone is open and honest and behaves as adults.
I've had to chase employees out of the office to take time off (didn't count towards vacation or sick days). It was a death in the family. I then got scolded that offering 3 full days for the request of forgiveness for 3 half days was a moronic move and the boss demanded that I contact the employee to tell them to take 5 days off.
I'm in the process of looking into how to improve processes at the office so that the employees can get extra time off (hoping for an extra week across the board at all levels). There's been some concerns from the upper management about semantics, but the conversion/combination of personal/sick day flex day concept you are suggesting might work exceptionally well. We shall see what is said about that. The boss used to track this #### in his head. Now, we're off loading it, so we have to properly design and implement a documentation system that works in the same way he used to deploy it.