How do you call in sick?

[Grindinghog]

What's the expectation or norm where you work?

Do you call, text, email?

Well a deaf person wouldnt be expected to make a phone call obviously.

I think it's unreasonable to have to phone multiple people but (reasonable adjustments apart) perfectly reasonable to have to call in. It's no harder to make a call than to email or message. Although I remember once losing my voice in the days before texts/remote access to emails and that wasn't great.

@EasterlyDirections sorry but it very much is a lot harder to call than send a message for lots of people. Sending a message does not require you to have to deal with a potential negative reaction from an unreasonable manager

These phoning in policies are unreasonable full stop.

Isn't it partly so they can be sure it is actually the employee calling in, and not, for example, an abusive or controlling partner?

This. Also it's a lot easier to skive off with an email/text message than a phone call.

Call my manager on her mobile as would have to log on to call her at work anyway and I start an hour earlier than her. Not done it for so long but I think I would text first as I would need to let her know quite early in the morning.

Company policies do not need to work for every disability. They have to put reasonable adjustments in place to their policies to work for individuals with disabilities.

I think our policy says to phone, I just text my manager because she knows me and trusts me!

Previously did a job where I had to phone the shift manager. They were never someone I knew personally and always got stroppy about it. I didn’t spend long there!

We need to let HR know. I would also contact anybody who is likely to be affected by my absence. That can vary between nobody to hundreds of people.

How we do that is up to us.

We don't really have anything we have to do, other than notify our manager, how you do that very much depends on local agreement and/or your relationship with your boss. I text mine and go back to bed if I'm really bad, or if I'm able I log in and delegate work and set my out of office before texting or calling if she's online. I don't have to notify every day - I usually give a day I think I'll be back and keep in touch to update if anything changes.

My job isn't able to be done by someone who is deaf so it's fine to ask us to call in

You work in a call centre then?

That could be the intention. But since an abusive or controlling partner could also force someone to ring in sick themselves, not sure it's going to achieve much.

Personally, I'd just text or whats app my manager. It's very informal where I work, plus and and I are pally. She would text me if she's off and as a team we'd work out if anything needs covering and by who. In this job I've never been too sick to text in myself, but it did happen in a previous job and my husband had to sort it out for me.

This depends on role and company. And often about seniority. I personally just Im and say not feeling great, logging off. Or just shove an out of office on.

The official expectation is to call in at/before 9am, but as a manager I advise my team they can text me anytime before 9.30 (at which point I'd start to worry about them).

If they're awake at 4am throwing up and know they won't be in, they can text me then and concentrate on getting rest instead of clock watching for 9am.

Not in UK. Same rule countryside if employed with and get sick pay. Contact line manager, usually by What's app or MS Teams. By law the company and HR are not allowed to ask what illness we have we have for privacy laws (during Covid or any other highly infectious illness obviously we could tell them). To be off sick on day 1, even if it's just one day, you have to see or contact a Dr (most doctors insist you see them) to get a certificate of illness, and then send HR the certificate. This is very good because it means no one is taking the piss and faking it.

Anywhere I worked is phone in only. In my current job we are customer facing in a team of two so I would msg my partner the night before or early morning as she may have to go in 30 mins earlier to set up and open.

I think phoning is fair, it's awful if you've been up all night sick and need to set an alarm to make the call but on balance I think its right. People would definitely take the piss more if they could msg.

I'd text my manager as generally it's pretty early morning. Then I'll call her at a more reasonable time.

Officially you are meant to phone your line manager each day, unless you've been signed off. In reality in the 15 years I've worked there I have never done this once, nor have I been asked to. Depending on whether I am well enough to log on I would send an email to my manager, then my team. Then I would rearrange what I needed to in my diary. If not well enough to log on I'd send a WhatsApp to manager and team and asked them to check my diary and send apologies for anything scheduled in

We just text our manager, very rarely gets logged as a sick day though, think I've had 7 days in the last 5 years and that was only because I had a sick note for a fortnight (already had leave booked for the second week)

Covid leave wasn't logged as sickness and had the nasty bug that was going around last week and just did an hour a day clearly emails for 3 days and that wasn't logged as sick either.

We're output not hours focused in our job

The person I report to is in the US so I'd set an OOO on my emails, email or teams my direct reports to let them know, cancel any meetings I have booked in the calendar then send an email to my manager making them aware.

I have claimed leave back if I have been sick during it. I wouldn't bother logging minor sickness unless it meant that I couldn't attend a meeting or appointment. The work still needs to be done.

Weird that you assume this is the only job that can’t be done by a deaf person

(I’m partially deaf and there’s lots of jobs I can’t do… Police, pilot etc)

Previous job - Private Sector: Spend 20 minutes on a call to manager relaying all my symptoms and somehow feeling like I was trying to convince him I was ill and then a telephone update of similar length every morning until I was better.

Current job - Public sector: Message manager as soon as I’m aware and then just let them know when I’m actually back in work

Reasonable adjustments relate to anyone who needs them, employees and managers have one thing in common, they're all human and some may have RAs in place to support disability.

so if it's the employee rather than the line manager who has deaf issues then they have the reasonable adjustment to use a different form of communication. It could be by text, email, WhatsApp, whatever form of electronic communication the company approves is appropriate to adjust for the fact the employee is deaf.

Yes?

I'm not actually sure as I'm not sick often, I can WFH when needed so might so that if able to work but bad tummy etc.
I guess as my manager is in the states I would log onto my laptop from bed, drop him a slack, set my slack picture to sick person and clear any meetings for that day, sending out any emails as needed.