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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby schwing » Wed Oct 17, 2012 12:18 pm
If for example you've been slogging your ass off for weeks, unable to catch up on our life on days off, in need of time out to stop you blowing your cool.
then YES
Get out and ride - you'll work better on your return. Perhaps some guilt will help here.
Just dont get too tanned
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby Snoopy-16 » Sun Dec 09, 2012 12:05 pm
I am currently on 3 months sick leave to recover from surgery due to a bike crash I had in October.
You may suddenly find you need all those sick days that your entitled to to keep you head above water.
Leave without pay is NOT fun !
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby Mulger bill » Sun Dec 09, 2012 10:56 pm
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby orbeas » Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:37 pm
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby skull » Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:52 pm
orbeas wrote:my hair grows in work time, should i take time off work for a hair cut?
HAHA when I had hair, I use to slip down to the barber in work hours to get a trim. In fact my first haircut that was required for that job we were all marched down and made to have haircuts in work time.
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby orbeas » Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:01 pm

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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby skull » Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:35 am
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby master6 » Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:46 pm
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby macski » Thu Dec 13, 2012 7:06 pm
One of my work colleagues has just had 5 months off because of a return of breast cancer and is not coming back for the foreseeable future but still has enough accumulated sick leave to be paid.
Plus, my boss is very fair - he suggested I take 5 days off over the Christmas period without using annual leave - as time off in lieu

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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby thecaptn » Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:15 am
macski wrote:I don't believe that it's okay to take a sickie if you are not sick. I have never done it - perhaps that's why I have 384 days of accumulated personal (sick) leave. But as others have said, if you find yourself with a serious illness or have an accident then you could be in a difficult position if you've used all of your sick leave.
One of my work colleagues has just had 5 months off because of a return of breast cancer and is not coming back for the foreseeable future but still has enough accumulated sick leave to be paid.
Plus, my boss is very fair - he suggested I take 5 days off over the Christmas period without using annual leave - as time off in lieu
Anyone on an EBA has had their sick days factored into their wage. When they leave a company after many years it's unusual to be fully reimbursed for untaken sick days. People who don't utilise their sickies are therefore being paid less than those that do and the company they work for is rewarding their honesty by retaining a percentage of their wage. It's true that if your one of the lucky employees who's sickies continue to accumulate year after year (as oppossed to loosing them annually) you can use them as a form of insurance but you're still paying a premium for that insurance in that if you don't ever get sick enough to need them you'll be relatively disadvantaged financialy and that's a gamble you're entitled to take.
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby thecaptn » Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:34 am
Oxford wrote:thecaptn wrote:Yeah they cant do that mate, it's the 21st century![]()
yeah, its not like companies monitor online forums, blogs etc etc. if I can offer some friendly advice, temper what you say online, particularly when it involves what amounts to what an employer can sustain as fraudulent behavior against them. its not if, its a case of when. remember, all you need to do is upset the wrong person and you leave yourself open to all your online behavior and comments being used to mount a very viable case for dismissal against you. don't think it will not happen, it already is happening, courtesy of the 21st century.
What I write on an online forum is irrelevant if I have a doctors certificate.
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby thecaptn » Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:36 am
floody wrote:thecaptn wrote:Yeah they cant do that mate, it's the 21st century
And a bloody shame it is.
When I refer to the 21st century I'm obviously only refering to the mainland.
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby im_no_pro » Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:59 am
thecaptn wrote:I chuck sickies to ride all the time. I don't think it makes any difference to the company or my "workmates" and if it did I wouldn't careI ran out of sick pay years ago and annual leave so it doesn't cost them anything. It's not that I'm lazy, I even chuck sickies to do volunteer work. I work for a massive corperation, it's not a person, it doesn't care about me and I don't care about it. I think people oppose the practice out of some holier than thou, moraly pre programmed sheep mentality. At the end of my my life I'll be extreemly satisfied about the time I wasn't at work and even happier that I didn't make some rich invester richer. So I think its ok to chuck a sickie to ride and even unaustralian not to.
Gee, I wonder why.
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby skull » Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:39 pm
I am glad I haven't, as I will use all of my sick leave and a couple of days annual leave to cover my current injury.
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
Postby thecaptn » Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:34 pm
im_no_pro wrote:thecaptn wrote:I chuck sickies to ride all the time. I don't think it makes any difference to the company or my "workmates" and if it did I wouldn't careI ran out of sick pay years ago and annual leave so it doesn't cost them anything. It's not that I'm lazy, I even chuck sickies to do volunteer work. I work for a massive corperation, it's not a person, it doesn't care about me and I don't care about it. I think people oppose the practice out of some holier than thou, moraly pre programmed sheep mentality. At the end of my my life I'll be extreemly satisfied about the time I wasn't at work and even happier that I didn't make some rich invester richer. So I think its ok to chuck a sickie to ride and even unaustralian not to.
Gee, I wonder why.
'cause it's a massive corporation

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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
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Re: Is it ok to chuck a sicky to ride your bike?
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