Current Events > Sick days don't carry over to next year

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Twelve sick days allotted per year. How bad does it look to you if an employee saves them for the holiday season

These aren't paid sick days.

Use them all fam.

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It's on the employer for having such a policy it encourages holiday time off by people conservative about their vacation days

Don't cuck yourself out of time off

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use what's given to you, no one's gonna give you any applause for not doing so

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If you're gonna be mad that an employee saves their sick days for the holidays then just have a monthly allotment instead of a yearly allotment.

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My sick days don't carry over but if I don't use them I get them paid out at the end of the year.
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Nothing wrong with doing it as long as you don't mind being on your manager's shit list for the rest of your time working there. Sick days that get erased is a bullshit policy in the first place

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My sick days don't carry over but if I don't use them I get them paid out at the end of the year.

This is the right way to do it

Unless they will cash you out for those days, you have no reason for shame or apology for using them. It's literally use/lose.

As someone stated above, the employer made the policy.

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I have a separate bank of vacation and sick days. They do roll over to an extent, but they cap at a certain limit to incentive using them.
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If they aren't paid, what difference does it even make? It always comes off to me like most of CE doesn't understand their PTO, or hasn't had a job.

If you think you're being slick by taking 12 unexpected days off, make sure that your work doesn't count sick days as occurrences that have an annual reset period. One of my employers had it that way, so if you worked your first year, never called in sick, then called in sick towards the end of that year, they would start counting how many sick days you've had an an annual period from then. It wouldn't just reset at the end of the year.

If you need the occurrences, and your counter truly resets that year that's your prerogative. Maybe you needed those days for mental wellness so you could have some relief to prepare you for the next busy year. Your employer should not be shaking you down at their discretion if you are only doing things you are allowed to do abiding by their own policy.

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My sick days don't carry over but if I don't use them I get them paid out at the end of the year.

The way I was always used to as well

Except now I don't get shit

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a-c-a-b posted...

My sick days don't carry over but if I don't use them I get them paid out at the end of the year.

Same
We're often slow at the end of the year though, so I'll take every Friday off in December if I've got pto to burn.

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If they're not paid then I wouldn't take it just for the sake of it. If it's a paid use it or lose it, I would (and in fact do in my circumstance) take it.

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Of course use them
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Using all your sick days to skip out on taking your turn covering holidays is shitty.

Thats why any good boss keeps a schedule so no one gets forced to do it repeatedly.

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