I can honestly say I’ve never worked at a job where they didn’t give you mad crap for calling out.
I just called out last Friday for two days because I had been in pain for the last couple of weeks (my knee is going out, I’m old, sue me) AND with the weather change, my sinuses were absolutely on FIRE, and causing me a HUGE migraine. I’d been holding out for at least a week and propping myself up with OTCs but Thursday night I got home from an exhausting day and I was just WIPED. I took the weekend for myself to “get right again”.
My boss didn’t give me crap this time, but I’ve had episodes like this in the past and they’ve leaned into me pretty hard for it. I’m still waiting for them to give me crap about this one. My place is always shorthanded and I don’t like to call out but sometimes you just have to do it.
Or write you up and threaten to fire you over it. Isn’t that what sick days are for anyway? I’ve never understood why they offer you sick days and then write you up for them.
I mean, if I have 10 sick days, and I’m over here trying to use number 11, ok, but if this is my second or third one? Even if it’s all been in the same month? And after 2 days, I need a doctor’s note for the 3rd and beyond? Ridiculous.