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MickZagger said:
How often do you play it?
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What do you define as "hooky"? I mean, I have several weeks of PTO each year, and I can use it however/whenever I want. Does just taking a random vacation day qualify? If so, I just did that yesterday. Of course, that resulted in my wife giving me tasks to do, so it wasn't really much of a vacation...but I digress...
 
My wife is the secretary at a middle school. Part of her job is filling positions when teachers are sick. She says that it’s crazy how many teachers call out sick. Sometimes even once a week. She contributes it to the kids being so hard to deal with these days.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
What do you define as "hooky"? I mean, I have several weeks of PTO each year, and I can use it however/whenever I want. Does just taking a random vacation day qualify? If so, I just did that yesterday. Of course, that resulted in my wife giving me tasks to do, so it wasn't really much of a vacation...but I digress...
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Yeah I guess just using a sick day when you aren’t really sick but just wanting a ‘mental health day’.

my wife does that too. So I do the bare minimum to make it look like I’ve done stuff and then just play NBA2k the rest of the day
 
MickZagger said:
Yeah I guess just using a sick day when you aren’t really sick but just wanting a ‘mental health day’.

my wife does that too. So I do the bare minimum to make it look like I’ve done stuff and then just play NBA2k the rest of the day
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My employers encourage mental health days. Of course I'm white collar, so that may be a difference.
 
Not nearly as often as I should, especially during this busy football season! I think a lot of it has to do with how I was raised, mom was a strict in her no days off of school unless really sick policy. On top of that I remember getting my first real job and about a month in coming home early from a shift because it was slow, no one wanted to leave and being the new guy I got my hours cut, dad was not happy with me when he thought I volunteered to leave. Obviously that has stuck with me and I don't take as many breaks as I should but need to be better about it. As a teacher we get 10 yearly 'leave' days and I typically use 5 and stash 5 for a rainy day.
 
This thread is such a disappointment.

I misread the title as “Nooky”.
 
In third grade I would wake up every day before my parents and would go into their room to tell them I felt "sick". I got perfect attendance in school that year.
 
Never. I'll call out if I'm sick, because going to work sick is a shitty thing to do. But I won't call in because I don't feel like going to work.
 
Yeah it must be more common in my line of work. Its more of a daily grind than a lot of jobs
 
MickZagger said:
An older employee at my work once told me years ago before he retired that you win no prizes for having hundreds of hours of sick time
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Our PTO comes in form of a monthly check/deposit. I invest as much as i can. That can give me some prizes out of not using my sick time.
 
MickZagger said:
Yeah it must be more common in my line of work. Its more of a daily grind than a lot of jobs
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Yeah, I'm on a computer all day. I have a pretty abusive/hostile work environment though.
 
ehizzy3 said:
I’ve taken 3 mental health days that could be considered hooky this year. I was just really tired and didn’t want to get up at 5:30 am lol

but my boss encourages this so, swaaaaaag
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Had a boss one time that didn't care if we called in 30 minutes before a shift. I asked him one time why he let that happen, his response "I figure they have somewhere better to be and if they are here they'll just be a pain in the ass, as long as the work gets done than I don't care."
 
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