Call out sick to get respect at work? If you are a good employee

[William Huggins]

I'm a salesman in the construction business,
My base salary stay the same even if I don't show up,
but sometimes I'm affraid I'll miss out on some huge 6 figures job,
and get less % on my next quarterly bonus.

Anyway

I'm sure there's certain days that there's more likely to be larger orders?

 

[Sonny Qc]

I'm sure there's certain days that there's more likely to be larger orders?

yep, we pretty much know every big project in the province in advance, but still.

In the winter (december and January, I can fck off to the nearest bar pretty much when I want)

rarely do, but I could.

 

[Amerikuracana]

I'm a salesman in the construction business,
My base salary stay the same even if I don't show up,
but sometimes I'm affraid I'll miss out on some huge 6 figures job,
and get less % on my next quarterly bonus.

Anyway

I have that sales competitiveness, as well. Some people have it, some people do not. Unfortunately there are too many car sales type hacks that outnumber good sales people, and they will gang up on new guys that are good, which I’ve had happen twice. My current job I have been #1 10/11 months, out of like 20 people, but it’s not a really high paying job.. But when I sold cars I was #3 out of 15 people in my 4th month when I had to quit because the “should not be working in sales crew” realized they would have to team up on me to compete, which again, has happened more than once.

The higher managers and owners have always liked me, but in sales, co-workers have been pathetic.

 

[2DUM2TAP]

I've never called in sick if I wasn't. Even when I had 10 allocated sick days in the past. I'm not really comfortable lying.

I get PTO time now which includes an allocation for sick time (sort of). So you can use it for vacation or what ever. You just get X number of days per year. So because I'm never sick I get extra vacation time. Which is kind of a pain because I always try to keep some days banked just incase I do say get sick in December. Sometimes I lose some days though because there is no carryover.

 

[blaseblah]

Well, I disagree.

0 debt,
cars, condo already paid for.
Can party multiple times per week without even thinking about the money I'm spending.

Don't have a wife and kids tho.
If I had, I could agree.

You clearly aren't partying if you are showing up to work sick and working overtime.

Lol you actually believe that working like a dog and showing up to work sick is the only way to have no debt and own a car. Get a better job.

 

[Contempt]

So here's the deal my new job I got 6 months I'm the best new employee my company has gotten in ages. It's the type of job where if you call out, others have to do double duty. It's freight work. One call out in 6 months. Since I've been hired half the company has quit and the replacements have all lasted a few weeks and then burnt out and quit. There are people in my crew who call in sick several times a month, on the regular. But I've been working this whole time and getting very little appreciation for it. So today I called in sick, heavy load day. They're gonna feel what it's like to not have me around when they need me. And I'll be accepting my apology next time I see them or it's my resignation as well.

Employers will literally work you to the bone for as little compensation as possible if you let them. Fuck that.

"I'm the best new employee my company has gotten in ages."

Idontbelieveyou.pic

 

[Drain Bamage]

"I'm the best new employee my company has gotten in ages."

Idontbelieveyou.pic

Dude nobody wants to work right now, you should see this shit

Half my crew has quit in the last 3 months and barely anybody are applying for jobs

 

[Merlotte's]

Plus no more eye candy!

 

[Sonny Qc]

You clearly aren't partying

Lollllll

100x more than you, guaranteed.

 

[Contempt]

Dude nobody wants to work right now, you should see this shit

Half my crew has quit in the last 3 months and barely anybody are applying for jobs

It really shows these shitstain socialists that are pushing for UBI for the idiots they are: "If you just pay everyone, most people will still choose to work"

LOL clueless assholes.

Still never had a problem getting people to work where I do. Overpaid assholes...

 

[TribalDrumz]

"Half my Crew"

 

[kimocomplex]

Same boat working at UPS.

They sure miss me when I'm out.

It's only been about 3 times in the 4 months I've been there

 

[SuwoopBangin]

Your place of employment pays you to do a job, they're not your friend. If you died today, there'd be an ad posted for your job tomorrow. Thinking they owe you "appreciation" is laughable. When you're on your death bed, are you gonna look up towards God and think, "man I sure am glad I never took time off work"? What a stupid thread

 

[Contempt]

You don't get sick days? You should get a better job with salary and re-evaluate your priorities in life.

Over-rated. I'll never take a salaried position. Screw that.

 

[SalvadorAllende]

True to an extent, but there are a lot of employees in positions that can do a lot of damage leaving abruptly. Honestly, if my residential closer came up to me today and said she needed a $10k-$15k raise or she'd need to leave, I'd seriously need to evaluate it and would possibly give it to her on the spot. I can almost say with certainty that her leaving without notice would cost me well over $10k-$15k. Over the first month, I'd say I'd be down probably $25k to be honest and who knows how that would hurt us long term if we aren't getting things closed. If she is putting in a 2 week notice, I'd maybe be able to salvage without a huge loss, but I'm sure it would be thousands. Of course this is all offset by her salary now being much for the next few years, but my point is that key employees have a lot of leverage. Probably more than most realize, but they just have to be willing to jump ship or have something else lined up.

Hopefully she does not have a Sherdog account bro.
But that type of employees are usually not the ones who are going to push you to pay more or will leave from one day to another.

On the other hand TS has been bitching about his job for a while here and the only reason he hasn't left is because he keeps failing drug tests because of the weed he smokes and can't get a new one.

Hopefully he gets his shit together.

 

[eighterumg5]

I have sick days. And im gonna fuckin use them

 

[looktwice]

They don't give a shit about you or me or anyone else. Fuck them all.

 

[lsa]

" I'm the best new employee my company has gotten in ages"
so you are writing fiction now.

 

[GSP_37]

At a McD inside a Walmart, there was this person coughing repeatedly behind the counter. Sounded like a guy, looked a bit like a large fat girl wearing a bra. Even if the manager doesn't give a shit about customers getting COVID, how about caring about the other staff not getting COVID?

 

[ralphc1]

I've never called in sick if I wasn't. Even when I had 10 allocated sick days in the past. I'm not really comfortable lying.

I get PTO time now which includes an allocation for sick time (sort of). So you can use it for vacation or what ever. You just get X number of days per year. So because I'm never sick I get extra vacation time. Which is kind of a pain because I always try to keep some days banked just incase I do say get sick in December. Sometimes I lose some days though because there is no carryover.

The company that I worked for had vacation time and 6 sick days. They paid everybody for their vacation time in May and the sick time as it was used. The sick time could be accrued and a payout could be requested. When the owner died and the company was sold, the original owner paid out all the accrued sick time and the sale included the employees annual vacation days transferred to the new company. The new company used a different bookkeeping system. They used the employees original hire date as a starting date for the employees reset for vacation days and employees could ask for a payout of vacation time that they had left on their anniversary date. The company had vacation based on how many years you had worked, 3 floating holidays as well as the 7 national holidays and 6 sick days. About 7 years after they took over, they decided to do everything by the calendar year so they pro-rated the vacation days to get everybody even on the calendar year. A year later they decided to change to Paid Time Off, [PTO]. Each employees vacation, sick days and holidays were calculated based on a percentage of the annual hours to be worked and the PTO accrued so much for each hour worked. There no longer was a way to accrue sick days but the company did have short term disability which paid 70% of the employees normal wage for 6 months and long term disability which paid 50% for the 7th through 12 month. Longer than that and you will qualify for Social Security disability.