I could easily take a day off today. If I told my manager that I wasn’t working today, she would say okay and that would be it. I could even say I was taking it off to play video games.
However, I only get paid for billable hours so I would lose 10% of my next pay check. Besides it launches at 15:00 PST and that is after my main working hours anyway.
I see my boss like once every few weeks. Yet, I still came to work today.
Im off until 12/12 due to surgery. Yay me? Except for the whole, had to have surgery part.
I work from home and I’m a software engineer for a large corporate company. I haven’t needed a sick/vaca day since 2017, lol.
Who needs a job anyway? Can’t play WoW 14 hours a day if you have a job.
I havent called in sick in 10 years. I get about a month and a half of PTO. Thats plenty to just look a few days ahead and say, “Im taking Friday off”
I have a variety of factors that dissuaded me from taking time off:
~I like my job
~I have paid time off if I reconsider
~It’s a calm part of the year
~By the time I get off it’s a good time to log on anyway since a lot of my guildmates will be active
Wow! I’m pretty lucky in this regard, whereas at my old job paid time off was just…not a thing. At all.
I’m not in any hurry to burn through DF anyway so it all works out!
You don’t no my boss lol
Sick days? What kind of job do people work at where you have to resort to calling in sick, my job on-top of our 10 paid sick days a year gives us 5 paid personal days we can use any time with no reasons needed and that doesn’t include vacation.
I’d hope people who plan to be off took PTO, but I guess some may call off. I mean the last company I worked for let us call off for “mental health days” outside of busy times and a game launch would be tolerable for that. If people are calling off and overstressing their coworkers though, shame on them.
This is fair reasoning. I was cross-trained in a lot of stations so every time someone called in sick I had to cover for their workload outside of my own station that I actually enjoyed.
It was very stressful for me, because some people called in sick often. So damn glad to be self-employed now.
I know a DK who started answering scam calls just to see if somebody would heal him in 2s
I am the boss… you can guarantee that i’ll be working from home. and honestly I don’t think you should worry yourself over what others do or don’t do. Honestly you’re not their mother.
Did it work?
No, they all play league or call of duty. 
How perfectly predictable.
Doesn’t matter what the boss thinks only what he can prove. not a bit of his business if I play video games or not. Then again I am my own boss so.
Got it in one. It’s their PTO. They use it as they need it.
Yeah, and if you work for a place that judges what you take planned PTO for or analyzes an unplanned incident based on anything more than how often it happens you need to go elsewhere.
This is a simple work life balance issue. I didn’t take PTO today, but if I had, my boss would not have cared that I did it for a video game instead of some other reason. They also don’t care if someone calls in sick for a mental health day, again, so long as it’s not excessive or causing problems for an employee’s performance.
Some people prioritize their mental health over any job. Paying bills is important, but within reason right? I don’t think it matters what you take a mental health day for, as long as you take them once in a while. Whether you do it to go on a hike, or to sit at home and binge a show, or to play an MMO, or to paint or build something.
Whatever it is, as long as its doing something completely different from work, and takes you out of your normal working environment, then I don’t see it as unhealthy. Anything in moderation can’t be unhealthy, including work. Work in moderation, relax in moderation, eat in moderation, sleep in moderation.