Sick day or call in late? YOU decide for me!

[managedmis]

YABU - Call in late
YANBU - Call in sick

@managedmis They've invented a thing called Annual Leave that can be taken.

@PhilCornwall1

if it takes you 3 hours to reach work, you need to rethink your work place choices.

I heard, Phil

Thing is I only get 4 weeks per year

Annual leave - that's what it's there for!

Is the appointment short notice ? Either way1/2 day annual leave .
I only get 4 weeks annual leave too and a few days a year are down to appointments etc so suck it up book annual leave and come in at lunch time .

Annual leave

Don’t call in sick when you’re not sick, simple as that.

Can you change one of the appointments so they are both on the same day?

How long have you known about the appointment?

God OP this is infuriating!

If you need leave to take your DD to an appointment, you need to take annual leave (unless there's any other system of unpaid leave that applies in your work place. For me, it's annual leave).

I'm a single parent of 3 children. I have to take most of my leave to cover school events, sick children, appointments and so on. That's the way it works. It's tough at times, but they are my children, I work full-time, that's the deal.

I would never call in sick if I wasn't, or try to make up a ridiculous excuse for being late. If I needed time off like that, I'd book it in advance - even trying to decide what to do only the day before is ridiculous. Act like a decent employee and adult!

It doesn't matter if you "only get 4 weeks a year". This is what A/L is for, it's not just for jollies .

Alternatively, ask your boss if you can work an hour late three days this week to make it up, if your job is the sort of job that can facilitate this.

We have unpaid leave at our work for this. My friend used it to take her disabled mum to a hospital appointment. Dependant s leave or something?
I wouldn't call in sick as what if you really get sick and the boss gets pissed off with all the short term absences (Bradford scale)

Thing is I only get 4 weeks per year

So do I and so do many people, that's life.

Of course you don't call in sick or make some spurious excuse for being late.
You take annual leave.

It’s emergency dependents leave everyone is entitled to it. It’s usually unpaid.

It's only an emergency if it couldn't be foreseen.

YABU. Tell the truth.

No appointments for dependents are emergency depends leave if no annual leave left.

How late was the appt decided? It seems odd that it is tmrw and you haven’t made a plan before now