To go off sick in December?

[Sarahbd3]

I've just found out that I'll only been granted one day off over the Xmas and year new period (I mean besides the official public holidays). Names drawn out of a hat about who on the team can have which days off over the Xmas season.
I'm a single mum to two young children under 6 and, for once, I want to be able to spend a proper stretch of time over Xmas being off with them and doing all the Xmas stuff that other families get to do. Their grandparents are going to be away on a cruise so I'd have no child care anyway, unless I was off work.
I have a chronic health condition which is well known at work (although I've never previously taken any time off sick with it). In facet, I have not been off sick since a car accident 4 years ago.
On my team, it's always the same person who goes off sick for Xmas, for several weeks and nobody seems to have an issue.
Wyibu to go off sick with my chronic illness to be guaranteed the festive season with my children? To not make it look too plan I, I'd probably go off in the second week of December, rather than on Xmas eve. Maybe return second week of Jan.

37% of people feel it's OK for a single mum with a chronic health condition to pull a sickie fir the best part of a month.

That's not a small minority. That's aa worryingly high number for any employer.

Many of those who don’t support her have disabilities themselves and are aware how few and far between good employers, prepared to support disabled employees, are. And many of the people who agree with OP haven’t declared an actual disability themselves, so they are unlikely to share the same point of view. The percentages don’t say anything about the motivation of disabled people unless you know whether the people commenting are disabled or not.

Why is it the wise thing to say ? Unless you know how many of those supporting her are disabled themselves it says absolutely nothing about the motivation of disabled people in the workplace. You’re skirting dangerously close to ableism now.

I think 1600 votes is enough to give a broad and balanced crossection. Within those 1600 votes there is likely to be proportionate levels of disabled and able-bodied voters.

37% of people voted in favour of lying. A proportionate amount are likely to have disabilities.

And now you’re making negative assumptions and applying prejudice to the wider community of disabled people, based on one post - the OP’s. I’ve spent the majority of my working life advocating the opposite so it saddens me to see things haven’t changed much.

You have no childcare anyway so you can't go in? I'd explain to the manager that unfortunately this year you have no form of childcare so can't go in. Maybe they could add a few days as holiday pay instead of another time.

OP has weeks to arrange suitable child care, but we all know she won’t because she’s already made up her mind about what she’s going to do.