What's a good sick excuse to use for sickie day from work?

[SummersBreeze]

I'm looking for a sick day from work.

What's a good excuse/made up illness for a sickie?

Thanks

I've heard some amazing ones, 'I'm a bit tired', 'I have a spot on my back and my backpack is rubbing on it', 'banged my toe last night'. Peeling cuticles is amazing 😂

Migraine is a fail safe though, I've used it once or twice when I was just burned out and needed a day. Period pain/cramps is absolutely legitimate and you should never have to lie or avoid saying the words, both me and my line manager suffer from awful periods and its not unusual for one of us to call the other and say we're taking a day/half a day because of it.

Covid.

Its (mostly) mild now but can still make your feel rough for a couple of days

Migraine is annoying. I've got Chronic Migraine and it's totally disabling, I'm only able to work very part time due to it and still have to try to work with migraine a lot. It's really irritating that people use it as an easy excuse to skive.

Ask for a day of unpaid leave?

Take a day's leave and tell them you're working on growing up and being responsible?

Sickness bug is failsafe. You don't need to be 'prone' to that, nobody is going to ask for details, it's a universally suffered ailment.

My only concern with encouraging you to call in sick when you just want a day off is, what if you become sick for real in the next few days?

Would it be impossible to arrange a day's leave at short notice without having to lie?

i only get one or two a year now, and always feel fucking guilty when ringing in sick with "one of my heads" as I know it will give other people more work to do.

But this is MN all over. Anyone thinking of their responsibilities is a "sickness martyr".

Thankfully, real life is different.

And its people like you, lying about having a debilitating condition that makes it harder for the people who really suffer to be taken seriously.
Think about it.

Covid?

Chill out.

For all we know it's for a job interview that the employer won't let her have the time off for, or mental health that they aren't comfortable discussing

Yep.
Or she's a scammer who can't be arsed to do her job.

@PAFMO

Then ask the reason rather than dive straight in to attack.

Monday sick days would be logged & monitored more closely at my workplace than other days of the week and it makes sense. Lazy buggers.

I thought most people said they'd keep it ? And to give the builder some ?

Wtf should I chill out. Unless we should all accept that lying to your employer is an ok thing to do
It's the principle. Try to understand

Oh how charmingly patronising.
I am calm. Merely pointing out that OP is showing poor work ethic and setting an example that shows lying is ok

How about you go just go to work and do the job you are paid to do. If you need a day off then that is what annual leave is for.

well said

Most people don't get paid for sick days, so it's hardly "stealing a days pay" 🙄

MN is always so uptight about pulling a sickie - it amuses me how wound up people get on these threads

We have a number of mental health days which we can take.

surprisingly not many people take them but some do.

Please don’t use migraine.
It makes those who do genuinely suffer from something that can be really debilitating find it much harder to be taken seriously. It also means that there tends to be a veil of suspicion whenever we do have one.

Why do you want a day off work if not for sick leave, compassionate leave, unpaid leave, parental leave or annual leave?

What is actually preventing you from going to work @SummersBreeze?

For a pp I think Wednesday is the most commonly thrown sickie.

That legitimately happened to me in work. I was eating lunch, broke my filling and tooth and the pain was pretty instant. I had to leave work and go to the dentist immediately. It was a 2hr repair job. Everyone having heard it happen and saw the half tooth were like - go, go, go to the dentist now!

Yes because in my previous job staff shortages meant that when someone took a sickie the rest of us were even more frazzled.
And we all know the people who are not really sick!