To think she’s faking?

[Appleofmypie]

One of my team at work is 14 weeks pregnant. She’s been off sick for 5 weeks with severe hyperemesis and still has a week left on her sick note (she’s being signed off for 2 weeks at a time)

By complete coincidence she is Facebook friends with a friend of mine.

My friend has put some pictures on Facebook this morning of her Greek holiday she’s still on, and my work colleague is in most of them - sunbathing, eating, swimming in the sea, playing volleyball. She has obviously blocked me as she is tagged in the pictures but her name is unclickable.

I’m gonna sound like a complete cow but I think she’s faking her sickness.
She’s on full pay from work and we’re having to pay an agency temp to cover her work too. It’s a small company that is struggling and I doubt we’re going to make any profit this month due to this.

My questions are:

Should I tell/show our boss?
What evidence of hyperemesis does a GP need to see to sign you off or Could it just be on her say so?
Is she actually doing anything illegal?
I know that pregnancy sickness is covered separately to normal in terms of disciplinary but if it’s proven she’s faking could it still be gross misconduct?

Thanks

She’s clearly a massive liar haha, hopefully she gets laid off.

More holiday pics and hosting a BBQ this weekend?

Yes, absolute piss taker. She does NOT have HG.

Bet she lies to her doctor again and comes in with another sick note. I hope she's fired on the spot.

Is that possible?

You can't bbq with nausea and morning sickness never mind HG. The smells.....

Just here with my popcorn waiting to see what happens :)

If she's got the nerve to go into work today I hope your boss slaps her p45 down in front of her

I thought I was feeling a bit better around 16 weeks and managed to get to Tesco. One whiff of the chicken rotisserie and I had to fling aside my trolley and leg it outside...

A bbq? I couldn't have been on the same block as a bbq when I had HG. My poor dh did what he could to find nutritious food after I was eventually released from hospital. Or indeed any food.
Recently one of my dd's teachers suffered with it. She said nobody really understood what it was like. Poor thing.
This lying cow makes it worse for all of us.

It doesn't matter whether she has HG or not, all that matters is that she's handed in a note saying she's too sick to work for whatever reason. If she's well enough to go on holiday she's well enough to work.

She should have either come into work or requested annual leave.

You did the right thing OP.

Fascinated to hear if she's turned up for work with inexplicably deep suntan or has popped another sick note in instead....

So did she turn up?

So did she turn up?

I wonder where she is going on hols next ?? WOuld be great if she came onto the thread to comment lol

If she was able to be within fifty yards of a bbq, then she does not have HG

Jesus, what a cheeky fucker! 100% faking!

I didn't have HG, but I was pretty rough with nausea and vomiting from weeks 6-16ish with both pregnancies.

DD1 we had a holiday booked before I got pregnant so then were away while I was 9-11 weeks.

OMG it was awful. All I ate were bananas and plain pasta, and I was so desperate to try and get the holiday cancelled but as it wasn't HG there wasn't a way I could have done it without losing the money we spent.

And I figured feeling shite lying by a pool it was better than feeling shite in the office. But I 100% would have cancelled that trip if I could as the thought of the travel was unbearable and I 1-00% would NOT have even considered a BBQ!

I didn't vomit much, only once or twice a day, generally late at night, just felt awful, I cannot imagine how hellish HG is. So no way in hell can she have HG.

Placemarking!! Sorry!!!

Due in at 1pm, right? Come on, OP - did she turn up?

People like this are why many companies don’t offer sickness benefits. Makes me sick.

OP anything yet?

I hope you have take a screen shot of the new evidence on facebook, if your boss does go down the laying off route you will need it

she is taking piss taking to a whole new level

I had a similar situation about 6 years back like this. I had a short European break booked to visit a friend who lived abroad and then got signed off sick about a week before hand due to mental health reasons. I still went on the trip and the doctor also said it would doe some good to get away from the work environment. (My annual leave got given back) Whilst away df tagged me in a pic of us out at dinner. When I got back to work my line manager called me to a meeting and said that someone had pointed out to him that I was away whilst On sick leave. I could and did prove to him that I had booked the flight months before and so it wasn't a 'planned' sickness ploy!

Nothing disciplinary happened as it was all proved. But I could have been disciplined or even sacked for gross misconduct. I am still furious over the person who thought it necessary to grass me up even though to this day I don't know who it was!!!

I hate to mention it, but I'm just wondering if she's planning to come back to work after having the baby, because I can only imagine what she'll be like with demanding time off for childhood illnesses, appointments and more

That said of course, while being pregnant is a protected status employment-wise, parenthood isn't in the same way ... which is probably just as well

She came in herself. She handed in a 4 week sick note ...... and her resignation!

Her sicknote covers her notice period so she won’t be coming back at all!

She was very businesslike and didn’t talk to anyone but the boss - she was in and out in about a minute!

Sorry it’s not more juicy.

She is a grade A CF and thick with it.

What a piece of work. Good riddance, at least.