To skive off work this week ?

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Posting her for quick traffic - I’ve got 10 mins to decide !

Relevant :

• Im literally never off work with sickness - I’ve had covid twice and loads of other illnesses but will power through 😷
• It’s lovely weather this week (UK) and I want to enjoy it before we’re back in winter.
• No one covers my job.
• I need annual leave for childcare in summer hols.

YABU - Get to work you lazy loser
YANBU - Life’s short, you deserve a week in the sun with no pesky kids.

Well it's grey and cold here now and not supposed to get sunny until late afternoon. So I hope you haven't wasted a day of skiving on this!

I wouldn't do it personally, but no-one is going to die if you do.

5 days off is taking the piss though perhaps leave it until Thursday and Friday, then you can enjoy a longer weekend :-)

I think your view on this depends on:
general personal integrity
how you feel about letting others down
how you feel about your job
how your employer treats you
how much hassle it will be for you when you return
sick pay

I think some people think all jobs are corporate and office-based and working for a billionaire. And think skiving means they are ‘sticking it to the man’. In the real world, the work of employment is much more complex than that, and there are so many jobs which need workers to turn up or things don’t run well.

Of course the world won’t end if someone skives off. Because enough people don’t do this so generally workplaces can keep functioning.

I'm staggered at the number of posters encouraging OP. It's taking advantage of the employer, it's effectively theft, and it's lazy.

We'd all love more time relaxing in the good weather. But for those who have made a commitment to an employer and expect pay in return, time off should be agreed.

All time off has a cost, which is ultimately borne by the customer. Whether that be the cost of potatoes in a supermarket, the cost of a letter from a solicitor, the cost of the bbc licence fee, the amount of tax we pay to cover NHs or council run services etc.

I know I'll be jumped on for dramatising one persons week off. But, what if we all did it ...

And what example is this setting to DC. If you make a commitment to go to work 5 days a week, then surely you should do everything necessary to get there unless I'll, or unforeseen emergency?

Lot's of people will duck this week, we call them vampires (disappears when the sun comes out).

When I was line managing, I had one who would take, as I called it "Solar sick leave".

Guaranteed if the weather was good, the lazy fucker would be off. Difficult to prove, as nobody in the team lived within a hundred miles of them.

Mind you, that can work in my favour too, as the team I'm now in, nobody lives within 300 miles of me.

I have absolutely no loyalty to work places as they have no loyalty to you (those days are long gone) but I’d hate all the ‘how are you feeling now’, ‘what was wrong with you’ stuff you’d get after taking a week off (which is a long time in the world of work). I’m a terrible liar though (which to me is a good thing) so I’d be flustered and too obvious in my replies. I don’t like people thinking I’m shady or untrustworthy so a day skive (because I really need it) yes but a week (to enjoy the sun) no.

For me it would be a no as I'd be stressing about losing leave for the summer holidays. A week now is just going to cost you a headache then. Not worth it. Maybe take a day if anything.

@Flippyflopster Bore off with your detective skills.

Do it OP, if you are hardly ever sick and don't do it again for a long time to come 🤒

Haha you’re brave!!!

I’d say it depends who’s paying you but if it’s a large company then why not?

Yeah I think that's pretty shitty on your employer. To enjoy the weather, jeez!

Used to work with someone who did that. Boss found out, she was fired.

The thing is, if she’d have asked her have given her the time off but because she lied she was gone.

I wouldn't. I wouldn't be able to relax for fear of being found out!

Had a close friend who did this every yr when her kids were younger, thought she got away with it... until she wanted a promotion, cushy term time job perfect for a parent & didn't get it, when she asked for feedback guess what made them give a slightly less experienced colleague the job? Yup bosses did know & it caught up with her in the end.

Everyone is going to be looking out for colleagues who mysteriously fall ill all week this week now.

I know how you feel op. I literally had to drag myself in as the weather is so lovely and we have waited so long for that in the Uk. Gently, yabu though.

Maybe a few days, a week might be pushing it although if you can get away with it I’d do it but I would definitely have a few days off. Life is too short to have your nose at the grindstone to the time.

Those saying yes: - and if the OP was a plumber booked to fix your shower, or your hairdresser who you 'd booked weeks ago, or the nurse who was meant to do your follow-up appointment, or the teacher in your kid's school, or the train driver of the 7.03 this morning....??
You'd soon make a fuss. And if you were the small business owner counting every penny or part of a larger business looking at whether it really is viable to continue?? Or the shopper wondering why prices just keep going up??
But most people aren't bright enough or responsible enough to see that connection - especially if they aren't working themselves and just see "the government" as responsible for everything.

Were you WFH or going into the office when you power through any illness you may have including COVID?

Do it OP.

Depending on your job. Is there the option to wfh/garden. Still do the work but sit in the sun to do it??

I’ve gone to work I couldn’t do it !

Great responses on here though, thanks guys 😁