Singapore Expats

Do you feign sick ( or other reasons ) to obtain medical leaves from your daily work?

Wana hv a show of hands

I know of people who do but the doctors know better! ha ha

Came across people who jus visit doc to get MC after they have finished their annual leave!

I have done this for stress reasons - Though I suppose stress is a sickness...

Apart from that maybe once or twice to cover for an outing of golf or someother adventure. Only ever done it when I knew work was pretty clear and nothing much would crop up.

Yes, like bafana, ive done it when under tremendous duress and had even more stress suffering from the guilt of 'skiving'!!

Loislane wrote:Yes, like bafana, ive done it when under tremendous duress and had even more stress suffering from the guilt of 'skiving'!!

You would'nt happen to be a Catholic like me would you - Sama sama.

I always feel guilty when I do it as well

You know I used to actually feel guilty being on leave or when i was genuinely sick ! I think its either 'workaholism' or co-dependence, when our worth depends on us being somewhere or being 'needed'...

Maddness innit?!

I did that too, same reasons from Bafana although i did not get as much gulit. Sometimes just need a break from the work (weekends don't count as i would be having fun, so i take mc to really rest at home). Just like the chinese idiom, take a short rest to go even longer distance.

I think this is sad. Workers are not getting enough time for themselves while annual leave packages offered by employers these days are a bit of a joke.

We don't even get a 5-day work week! I think we got to move towards a flexi-hours working arrangement. Working away from office must be encouraged and workers must not be appraised by the number of hours they spent behind the desks.