AIBU to be fed up with colleagues repeatedly off sick?

[IngridsLittleToe]

I'm going to get my arse handed to me and I don't care. Sick staff....I'm so over feeling sympathetic. I'm not talking really sick staff...I'm talking repeated back ache/gynae problems/migraine/back ache/sore throat/cold/depression/back ache/sinusitis/cold/sore big toe....

They have been on repeated sickness absence management and pull it back from the brink each time. Only to start all over again. Years and years of this. The rest of the team have to pick up the pieces, cancel their jobs to cover someone else's and the sickie doesn't have any loyalty at all.

The whole time they are sick they manage to socialise and do a voluntary role. Any attempt to manage the sickness is met with claims of bullying and then they go sick with anxiety.

All on full pay.

AIBU to think they are shamelessly playing the system and should be sacked

This is what I am finding confusing about this thread! Why are a few people that have been genuinely sick responding as if the thread is all about them?

To me the OP was crystal clear about the kind of person she was talking about, and most people have understood and say they know it well, but a few people have taken it personally as if it’s actually about them! But in fact its them who suffers (as well as everyone else who suffers) because of the very people this thread is actually talking about because those people are making genuine sickness look less credible or wearing out the resources for dealing with genuine sickness, so in fact the genuinely sick should be upset about it too, not tell the people calling out that behaviour that they are in the wrong!