Forgive me for I have sinned

[mick]

i pulling a sickie on thursday,i not only take sick days to play golf I plan them.I can never understand why my boss doesnt put two and two together regarding my golf addiction and a high portion of my sick days being in summer lol

 

[RGuk]

Reminds me of a favourite joke.....

This chap wants to pull a sickie to play golf, but is worried about the obvious questioning. His good lady wife, keen to see him enjoy a day out of the office (and a better mood in the evening) comes up with the ultimate excuse that ought to guarantee no questions.

So the chap picks up the 'phone and dials his boss' secretary.......


Man "oh, hi Mary, it's Roger here, I won't be coming in to work today, I'm really sick"

Secretary "oh, sorry to hear that, just how sick are you?"

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"well, currently I'm in bed with my sister!!!!"

 

[ball_basher]

hows this one then homer !!!! he he , if i remember rightly it was 2003 when we had a really good summer , it must have been about easter and i was proper hooked on golf as i had only been playing 12 months , anyway i basically said to work i was taking leave to pursue other interests ...

you can probably guess what those interests where , (golf) what a great thing to do , i played 5 days a week and twice on some of those days and it was the best weather for the last ten years . i think i went back to work round about the october time ....

 

[mick]

thats dedication to golf,while HID doesn't mind playing every weekend and after work,I think a leave of absence is just to much for her.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I think I can be that. Sadly I lost my dad in August 2002 and was off on compassionate leave. After the funeral rather than mope about the house I was out golfing every day (its what he would have wanted). I went back to work in the October until the following March. I managed to get the doc to sign me off for 6 months so played the whole Summer of 2003.

Unsurpisingly work started to get a bit twitchy (it was only the DWP so their sickness policy was actually easily manipulated). In the end I decided to leave and then took a year out (the wife thought I was actively job hunting) and then played for most of 2004 as well.

It was only when the credit card bill became a bit of an issue that I reluctantly got back into proper employment. Fortunately that company and the NHS both operate flexi time so there is a guaranteed day off per month for golf

 

[Ronnoc1980]

What happended to clubchamp07, one of his fellow members appeared to rumble him 'dissing' his club committee on this forum after the 'drinking in the clubhouse incident' and now he's no longer a forum registered user...Eeeek!
Are you still with us clubchamp, perhaps under a new guise?

Interesting point - you've got me pondering that one too.

I must have missed the 'rumbling' bit as all I seemed to see was the 'mumbling' bit. Will have to run a search and see where it got to.

Billy G send me a link if you find it as i cant see the rumbling bit.

Cheers

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Follow on from my last post, I go tmade redundant from my job in january 2007 and so also had last Summer to play as well hence my drastic drop from 20 to 13. Easy when you are playing 7 days a week and practicing your putting and short game every day

 

[toonarmy]

I am truly shocked at the attitude to employment on display here! No wonder this country is going to the dogs if everyone seems to think it is perfectly acceptable to take sickies.

We all have days when we don't feel like it, but that's life. Sickies are the indulgence of the juvenile and that's why most kids grow out of them when they learn about the responsibilities of being an adult.

Just think of the others that are affected by taking a sickie and how you would feel if someone did it to you.

Shameful.

 

[haplesshacker]

Gotta agree with you on that. As I mentioned before, I don't think that I could do it because of the guilt. My wife probably wouldn't approve, my parents if they ever found out would be very disappointed, and how am I supposed to bollock the staff if I catch them doing it when I know that I've done it.

Public sector sickies are apparently higher than private sector sickies. I wonder how many that admit to it on here are public sector workers. (I don't want to start a war, with the pay rise grabbing, pension grabbing, money grabbing, work shy 34 hour week, tax swallowing beaureacrats)

None meant of course.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I'm public sector and have been in various guises (DWP and NHS). I have to say I worked in the private sector for many years (including supervisory roles) and during that time would never have dreamt of pulling a sickie.

However I have to be honest and say that certainly when I was at the DWP everyone knew they were allowed xx days per year before it affected their pay and would blatantly work out how many days they had had (genuine illnesses) and then take two days here, a day there etc.

It meant as toonarmy correctly pointed out that when they were away I'd be left to cover the work and so it got to a point of if you can't beat them etc.

I am proud of my absence record since joining the NHS and feel more motivated to be working and doing something positive (as opposed to dealing with druggie work shy benefit cheats at the DWP). My two days off were for genuine reasons.

I only took Monday off as my golf was in such a bad way and I was so close to jacking the hole (sic) game in that I really just needed to get out there and play one more round to see if there was any point.

If anyone is that offended by my actions I'm sorry but in my mind there are worse things happening at the moment (negative equity, price increases, world hunger, wars etc) than one person in a huge organisation such as the NHS skipping work to play golf.

And by the way, if anyone is interested, it was worth doing as I can feel the love for the game returning

 

[freduk]

You sound bad! I really hope that you feel better soon

ps if you dont would you consider leaving me your clubs?

 

[haplesshacker]

I've been out for a quick fag and thought about my last post, although it was tongue in cheek I was going to edit out the whole public sector thing.

However.

I would agree with Homer regarding sick day allowances in the public sector. 20 years ago I worked at the Royal Mail and you were allowed 10 or 15 sick days a year on full pay, and guess what, alot of the staff took them.

Over the years in the private sector I've had to discipline staff for poor absence levels, and had to sort out cover for them. Staffings tight at the best of times, and I don't need employees thinking that they can take a sickie whenever it suits them.

Homer - I appreciate your honesty and candidness.

 

[nomadpaul]

In the early 90's , i was working for BT and it was worked out that the average number of sick days per year per engineer was 11 . We all combined our colective talents to ensure that number remained pretty constant....

 

[RGuk]

In the early 90's , i was working for BT and it was worked out that the average number of sick days per year per engineer was 11 . We all combined our colective talents to ensure that number remained pretty constant....

Nice one!

I haven't missed a day since 1996......now I'm blowing the record well and truly......not going to make it in this week.....no chance.....can't even make it downstairs. H.I.D. refused to cook for me until I went to the doc's, had it written on a piece of paper that I was ill and did actually need food to survive.

 

[Sam]

I am truly shocked at the attitude to employment on display here! No wonder this country is going to the dogs if everyone seems to think it is perfectly acceptable to take sickies.

We all have days when we don't feel like it, but that's life. Sickies are the indulgence of the juvenile and that's why most kids grow out of them when they learn about the responsibilities of being an adult.

Just think of the others that are affected by taking a sickie and how you would feel if someone did it to you.

Shameful.

Well said, sir. Interesting that we call them sickies and not contract-breaking or stealing!

 

[viscount17]

No excuse I know, but mine are taken when the work is light and I'm sitting around bored. Anyway if there is any work left it's there for me when I get back, no-one has to take up the slack.

 

[theeaglehunter]

Follow on from my last post, I go tmade redundant from my job in january 2007 and so also had last Summer to play as well hence my drastic drop from 20 to 13. Easy when you are playing 7 days a week and practicing your putting and short game every day

ooooo sounds promising, hopefully what you say is true as I have 8 weeks off this summer during which I intend to play golf 5 days a week if possible.
Can't wait

 

[BARNEYTHEGOLFER]

NEVER PHONED IN SICK, BUT I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN, ITS A BAR STEWARD & FRUSTRATING WHEN YOUR GAME GOES AND ALL YOU WANT TO DO IS BE ON THE GOLF COURSE OR THE RANGE, BEST THING TO DO IS TAKE A WEE BREAK FROM IT OR YOU`LL GO MAD. ALAN.

 

[mick]

I think some of you have a bit of a high brow approach to someone taking a day of work.also in my defence (sort of) I have never taken a day off work because i have been sick and have dragged my arse into work,that frees up days i can spend with the love of my life (14 sticks and a bag).

 

[RGuk]

Welcome Barney......are you the caps lock guy or a big purple dinosaur.....?

Neither, oh, you're a golfer.......welcome and welcome again......thank goodness you didn't start a thread trying to flog something!

Good call, have fun!