Sick Day Question

"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
08/03/2016 at 11:43 • Filed to: Sick Days

You want to call in to work because you’re sick. Your work asks you to bring a doctor’s note. Can you tell them that you’re so sick you needed to call in and cancel your doctor’s appointment? Can you call in sick to a doctor’s appointment?!

DISCUSSION (21)

functionoverfashion > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 11:45

What if you’re too sick to call into the doctor? What if the doctor is sick?

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 11:46

Why don’t you try and let us know.

Bourbon&JellyBeans > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 11:52

I’ve always hated that. The college I went to had a policy that if you didn’t come to class then you had to have a doctor’s note. May have forged a doctor’s note or two in my time...

StoneCold > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 11:53

Too sick to drive?!? Hospital time.

MonkeePuzzle > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 11:56

I ahve done so. “hi, yes, dr? ok so, the poo is exiting so rapidly I feel I cannot be further than 10 ft from the toilet... ok... so dont come in? ok great!”

DylanToback > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 11:56

This is why I always say I am vomiting and/or have food poisoning. It’s usually short term so people don’t really expect you to go to the doctor for it. And if you are constantly vomiting, or experiencing other symptoms of food poisoning, you are probably not leaving your bathroom, let alone leaving the house.

I now realize that this does not help you at all in your current situation... Tell them you got a flat tire and can’t get to the doctor.

Wobbles the Mind > StoneCold
08/03/2016 at 11:58

“A Basic Life Support (BLS) ambulance ride will start at around $600 with distance traveled and equipment used added to the cost. An Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulance ride will start around $1000 , again with distance and supplies added on top. If it is an emergency, most of this should be covered by insurance.”

Who can afford that?! Insurance covers the initial costs but you have to pay back the insurance provider. Insurance is just like financing except you have no say in when, what, or at what rate and term the financing will take place at.

This hypothetical joke post is now setting me onto a different topic.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 11:58

Doctors note for a sick day? I fucking hate places like that, if you’re running a slight fever you don’t need to go to the doctor HOWEVER you need to stay the fuck home because you’re contagious and will get your co workers sick so if the managers actually had any brains they’d make you stay home.

I’ve told people on my team to stay the fuck home when they said they were okay to come into work because it was only “a little fever”. Nope, you come in and get everyone else sick productivity takes a nose dive.

Jagvar > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 12:01

Wow, they won’t let you take sick leave without a doctor’s note? Dick move.

Tripper > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 12:08

A doctors note for work!? That’s crazy. How about, “Thanks for staying home and not infecting everyone else.”

LOREM IPSUM > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 12:08

My response to that would be as follows:

If you can’t trust me to be honest about having an illness, then you clearly do not trust me at all. If you have such little faith in my honesty, why do you continue to employ me?

I’ll be back when I am feeling better. If you decide to terminate me in the meantime, after recouperating my first call will be to my attorney.

Wobbles the Mind > Jagvar
08/03/2016 at 12:11

Oh no, this is just a hypothetical because I heard a Drake joke.

Cash Rewards > Bourbon&JellyBeans
08/03/2016 at 12:17

Your college had an attendance policy? Some classes may have, but the majority were just “do your assignments, pass your tests”. Which usually did require attendance, but still.

TheNeonDriver - Now with More BMW! > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 12:40

An ambulance used to be free here in the great free north (AKA america’s toque), but now it costs $45.

I have not taken it twice due to the cost. I am literally too cheap to take an ambulance. (Both times were for less than life threatening issues, and I had a ride both times. If I were in dire straights, I would for sure take an ambulance. I am not an idiot. Well... )

My bird IS the word > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 12:43

This is why you tell them you have the stomach flu and have been throwing up for the last 2 hours.

Kent > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 13:22

Honestly if sick leave is given out by your employer and you decide to use some of it, the reason why you used it should be absolutely none of their business.

Kent > TheNeonDriver - Now with More BMW!
08/03/2016 at 13:24

Wow. In the United States if you do not have health insurance an ambulance ride could cost you $10,000 or more.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Wobbles the Mind
08/03/2016 at 13:25

Yeah Japan is great with the little mini vans that go around and tend to things that don’t really need an ER visit. I heard some big cities in the US are trying it out and it saved one millions so far, something on NPR. I got food poisoning one time in Japan and they came to take care of it. It’s so much cheaper, even stitches, if you aren’t going to bleed out and die the people in the van can do it too.

Bourbon&JellyBeans > Cash Rewards
08/03/2016 at 17:12

Yep, University of Maryland did. Not every professor enforced it, but it was in the books.

Cash Rewards > Bourbon&JellyBeans
08/03/2016 at 18:01

Fear the turtle! I was referring to my undergrad, but I got my PhD at UMD. I don’t think anyone at the grad engineering department was aware of that policy. But, you tend to go to those classes anyway.

Bourbon&JellyBeans > Cash Rewards
08/04/2016 at 08:43

Don’t take my word for it, but I think it’s a newer thing. It’s on every professor’s syllabus that I received at the beginning of each semester. But I attended from 2012-2016 (just graduated 3 months ago), so you may have left before it was implemented.