From the sounds of it, I infer (could well be wrong) that you have the right to accumulate an overly-generous amount of sick days every year, which you have not used because you're fairly healthy and they are way more than you need. I also infer that you're planning on 'using up' that entitlement by claiming to be sick when you're really not, all the while drawing a regular paycheque. I don't know all of the facts, and have no desire to pass judgment. But that would be the sort of thing that makes the general public so cynical about public servants.
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Milton, we get 13 days a year. but if you ever want to see the ranks of supervisor you better not use more than 1 or 2. And yes, it does pile up. The Feds also used to buy it back for a percentage added to your retirement. That's what I was told when I joined up. Guess what? Recruiters lie. "That was the OLD retirement system, prior to 10-01-1984. You joined in 1985. Use it or lose it." Conflicting signals?
Milton, dude, the guy works in a prison--I'd let him have his sick pay! Congrats on the promotion offer, Mike, whether you take it or not. And be careful in there!
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Sarah, we try. Maybe the 15 weeks of light duty pain followed by rotator cuff surgery, and then 10 weeks of therapy to return to full duty is something Milton believes everyone should do?
If he works in a prison, I don't doubt that his working conditions are poor. But surely that fact is something that he took into account in evaluating whether to pursue the job in the first place....But I am not free to unilaterally and covertly adjust the terms of my employment by stealing from my employer. That's called theft, and it's simply unethical.
Well, it's like this. What 27 year old, with no non-military job skills, a baby and a wife do
YOU know who had the luxury of "evaluating" his working conditions? And like I said, recruiters lie.
As for theft, so far in the BOP I have injured and had surgery on two knees and one shoulder. I can pretty much qualify for a medical retirement right now. And that's without the USMC's share of the list, two ankles. I'm a walking wreck. So when the time comes and if I choose to ride out my last three months on sick leave I've got more than enough medical justification for it. That's not theft. That's dedication just to go to work every day.
There has to be a system that encourages sick employees to stay home (instead of going to work and infecting the rest of their co-workers) but it should also discourage absenteeism....So if the prison has a sick-leave loophole that he can wriggle through, I say use it....
Gosh, I bet there are even companies that treat their employees like adults and let them decide whether they're too sick to go to work...
Nords, nothing personal here, no attacks. Just answering key points. We hand out sick leave abuse letters like candy. Know what happens? Nothing. New warden says people are going to get street time for it. Know what the hacks say? OK, put me on the street for three days, and then I'll bang for three days. My medical conditions are not loopholes. They are facts that I will have to live with for the rest of my life. And like many of my friends from the military I earned them so people like Milton can sleep well at night. Not crying about them, I'm proud of what I do and have done, both in the Corps and in the BOP. Would love to work for a company or agency that didn't persecute reasonable use of sick leave.
They're right there with the companies that won't dock a "salaried" professional for being 3 minutes late one day, and require him to work hours and hours late for the love of the job the next.
Of course a young surfer dude like you wouldn't remember when "9 to 5" were the usual working hours for office workers in this country.
W2R, amen. No mention is ever made of the hour or two that I give up here or there because the "boys" can't play nice. And for some reason it NEVER happens at the BEGINNING of my shift. Go figure?
