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Mental health days are real sick days
Employers can’t legally do anything to stop you from taking time off
They have to pay you for sick time if you have sick time available. They can still count it against your attendance and fire you for it, though.
It’s bullshit, but it’s true.
I have a union job and all I have to do is text my boss “I’m using PTO today.” 30 minutes before my shift starts.
That’s called sick
Exactly… No need to tell them any more than that.
My kids have days they can call in just for mental health
I wish I had that
I mean, I run my own business, but still…
I just use sick days for that. Sick doesn’t exclusively mean physical health and they’re not obligated to know why you’re taking time off — although thankfully most of my employers especially ones with younger management understood that sick = mental health too and it wasn’t a taboo.
Some jobs do offer mental health days.
Like five years ago, I was a laborer, and I started having a panic attack in the morning before work. I called my boss who was also my friend.
He was sympathetic and told me to just come in to work anyway. I couldn’t move.
Later that year, I quit and went back to school for four years, and now can’t find a job.
Why is life like this?
Both my spouse and I paid to have our CVs professionally written, job coaching, and it paid for itself in the first couple of months. Not America though.
Because we’ve tied all value to capital and the only capital most people start with is their time. Aside from changing the system which I do support, the only thing you can do is play the game the best you can while minimizing the abuse of others.
I did yesterday was just honest said I feel fucking awful combo of therapy and ptsd meds has my head done in and I’m not coming in… there cool with it, mind you om in the uk so we have rites and stuff.
In 1979, because homosexuality was listed as an illness in Sweden at the time, a few people called into work saying they “felt gay”.
One person even got state benefits for being homosexualAs the article points out, that was only a very small part of the overall effort to change the classification, however it’s still quite funny to think about.
So “I diagnose you with gay” was a real thing a doctor could legitimately say lmao.
A few times some relatives (English not being their native language), when I was younger, would ask me “are you of the gay?!”
I always use the phrase whenever I can. Just typing it is making me laugh.
There’s plenty days where I’m either burnt the fuck out or feel overwhelmingly constricted by my schedule, as lenient that it is I hate that I have a schedule at all. On those days I’ll just sit back and watch a few space/post apocolyptic movies and maybe do a few minutes of work in between them.
I’m able to do that and don’t even have to hide it, I tell my boss I’m having a movie day and he usually leaves me alone unless something big pops up. He started doing the same, he’s just not as good at it yet.
I’ve wanted to find a new job for more money for a while, but these kind of benifits aren’t listed in job posting and I don’t think I’d last anywhere that wasn’t as lenient.
as lenient that it is I hate that I have a schedule at all.
I feel this
Also, I’m too well to go into work. We called them “well days”
Most of the days I ignore them because I also have “feeling poor days”.
Yes, salary/paid time off is a must for the luxury of well days.
Did someone tell you to “feel worse soon” if you took a well day?
(I say this in jest)
Haha no, but that’s a good one.
Do you not get mental health days?
No
In new zealand. You can
In Poland also, 4 times a year. But then everybody assumes, You just got drunk. Which is usually true.
Australia too, they’re called mental health days.
If you’re caught crying outside the break room, that’s a writeup. It’s how Ash got canned.
I’ve got a pretty good manager so he’s been very understanding when I’ve had to call of sick due to mental health.
My work, and many others in my area, have well being days. As well as sick days and annual leave.
You can take a well being day at any time for any reason. The main intent is that it’s a mental health day essentially. So we can call in sad, but you don’t have to say “I’m not coming in cause I’m sad”.
