How do you call in sick?

[Grindinghog]

What's the expectation or norm where you work?

Do you call, text, email?

I’d message my manager, then let my reports know. All on Teams.

We have to telephone our line manager/supervisor and speak to them- we have to do this ourselves- the only times my DH called on my behalf I was in hospital (pre mobiles and unable to get to payphone) and the once again when I was in hospital in more recent times but was unconscious.

I send my line manager a message on teams. If she was off I'd let another manager know.

Log in on work laptop, call manager, message juniors, delegate any urgent work. Set out of office. Log off, go back to bed.
Manager messages whole team to let them know I'm not available.

I will teams, email and or message my manager. I think the policy has recently changed and we are meant to phone in now.

We have to telephone the duty manager. They reallocate work and notify our team leader.

Same, phone only

We are meant to phone an absence line each day we are off sick. It’s quite good as technically you don’t need to speak to your manager. I have only used it once as my manager was on holiday, as normally just text/call my manager and then it doesn’t get logged as an official sick day

I let my line manager know via teams, then inform those on whatever project teams I’m on, also via teams.

Our company use e-days so you just log it line - I usually let me manager and my team know via teams and then handover any urgent work & put my out of office on

Job 1. Phone call on special number that takes you through to the person in charge of that shift ( not necessarily your own manager).
Job 2 Phone call to named person in charge of staff absence.

We're required to personally phone in and speak to line manager or equivalent.

Send a text generally or WhatsApp message

I physically have to phone my bosses bosses boss, before 7.30am.

I hate it. I rang about 6am last time, expecting an answer phone and then going back to bed after pain relief, and had to speek to them still.

I call the office and tell them and explain why

I would text my Manager

I'm meant to call in but I'd usually Teams message my manager and then send a courtesy email to any colleagues who need to know. At the moment my line manager is in a time zone half a working day behind so I do it the other way round - message colleagues and email manager. I've not used phone to inform of sick leave for at least 15 years. I do say that they can text me if needed but I hate that pantomime of worrying you don't sound sick enough or putting on a sick voice for eg a uti.

We have to call the store and speak to manager on duty that day

I think the official wording is notify your manager. It used to be phone. I would text, then teams message my team on my phone then cancel my meetings & go back to bed.

Call the absence line and get told to send in cover work

Write lesson plans for every lesson that day

Write / find resources for every lesson that day

Realise it'd be easier to just to go in and teach than to write cover lessons. Go in, get progressively more sick, wait until a half term break to recover.

Ring in and speak to line manager or shift lead. Texts or emails not allowed.

I expect a text from my reports if they’re ill - if they say they’re ill I believe them, I don’t need a phone call so they can prove how sick they are by their voice, or whatever the point of that is. Text me, go back to bed, recover.

And my boss gets the same from me.

Phone and speak to line manager. No texting allowed. NHS.

Job 1 - When I used to work in an office I would text my boss. Now I work from home I work whatever hours I like so don't really need to report in unless I've been ill over a week. It is a part time job.

Job 2 - My own business so I just don't go in!

Message my manager via teams
Reschedule any meetings
Block my diary for the day/days
Set automatic out of office reply