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Once again, I find myself with some sort of evil sinus-viral thing that kicks my butt about once every four months.What's really scaring me, is that I have no incidents left in our attendance policy. We get seven incidents, and they drop off after four months. Well, I was late to lunch a few times, and I missed work because I double-up on my medication by accident, so I had to stay up all night to make sure I wasn't having symptoms of toxicity, etc. I also called off about a month ago. I thought I was at 3 incidents, but when I came back in, he showed my attendance, and I had 7 incidents. Which in my company is instaneous firing. So he tells me that he understands I was trying to stay within the rules, and that I thought I had several incidents to fall back on.
Well, he took the forms, had me sign them, put them in a folder, and he taped the folder shut and locked it into his desk. He told me this stays between him and I, and that if he sees improvement, there's nothing to worry about.
Well, two half incidents dropped of my attendance record, which takes me down to six, which is waaaaaay better than being instafired.
Well, now I'm sick as a dog, coughing, aching, blowing my nose a hundred times a day, etc. From what the minuteclinic lady told me was that I have Pharyngitis, which I am now seeing is coming from a Sinus Infection, but not a bacterial one, so no antibiotics.
So when I was talking to my boss about this, I talked to him this afternoon, and he was like "If you're sick, you're sick, and that's that" I explained to him that I didn't want an incident
Anyways, my boss was really cool when he started, he explained to us that when we called in, it's up to him to determine if it's an incident or not, basically if you could show that you were sick, or the situation was completely out of your control, then he wouldn't give an incident. But lately, he's going hardcore back into keeping people in the seats at the job, doing their work.
I want to stay home tomorrow and I asked about the incident, anyways, he said if you call out, we'll deal with it when you come back.
So any advice on the situation, my two buddies have given me two different ideas, but I'm trying to figure what to do. I mean peoples, it's like I'm between a Rock and a Hard Place!
The only downside is being less comfortable while you're being miserably sick. For me, that's not much of a downside, as I'm never comfortable when I'm sick.
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