i remember my first week here . 25 years ago.
i was working with a guy named Noal.
back then we used to get pay slips and cash on payday.
just so happens it was the end of the year. start of a new finacial year. so we all got a payslip outlining how many sickies we had up our sleeve for the next year.

noal: 'you beauty.. 10 more days holidays " (referring to his new batch of sick days accrued)... :)

point of the story.. if you dont use them you lose them.
they dont pay you for not using them :)

so endeth the lesson

As long as you're not actually "sick* and hacking all over the office.
I hate that 😤

Both my therapist and my doctor calls in sick whenever they want a longer weekend. (Noticed the pattern) Even professionals think they have the right to do that.

Keep that in mind.

Yeah, but is it ever mentioned by management, do you get better raises than them?

Nah, it doesn't make you a goody two shoes, it simply means you don't use the system AND you probably had employers who weren't complete asses.

I think in total, I was absent maybe 5 or 6 days (real sick days) in all the years I worked... add in hospital time after an injury in VN. I worked from 16 until 62... do the math 😁

That's very commendable.

I was the kind of worker that would go into work when I didn't feel good, so one day I had no other choice but to call in sick and the new plant manager accused me of lying, my department supervisor called him every name in the book and told him that if I called in sick, that meant I could not get out of bed, that at work I was known for having a puke bucket next to my cnc milling machine.