What do you define as "hooky"? I mean, I have several weeks of PTO each year, and I can use it however/whenever I want. Does just taking a random vacation day qualify? If so, I just did that yesterday. Of course, that resulted in my wife giving me tasks to do, so it wasn't really much of a vacation...but I digress...
My wife is the secretary at a middle school. Part of her job is filling positions when teachers are sick. She says that it’s crazy how many teachers call out sick. Sometimes even once a week. She contributes it to the kids being so hard to deal with these days.
Yeah I guess just using a sick day when you aren’t really sick but just wanting a ‘mental health day’. my wife does that too. So I do the bare minimum to make it look like I’ve done stuff and then just play NBA2k the rest of the day
Not nearly as often as I should, especially during this busy football season! I think a lot of it has to do with how I was raised, mom was a strict in her no days off of school unless really sick policy. On top of that I remember getting my first real job and about a month in coming home early from a shift because it was slow, no one wanted to leave and being the new guy I got my hours cut, dad was not happy with me when he thought I volunteered to leave. Obviously that has stuck with me and I don't take as many breaks as I should but need to be better about it. As a teacher we get 10 yearly 'leave' days and I typically use 5 and stash 5 for a rainy day.
In third grade I would wake up every day before my parents and would go into their room to tell them I felt "sick". I got perfect attendance in school that year.
Never. I'll call out if I'm sick, because going to work sick is a shitty thing to do. But I won't call in because I don't feel like going to work.
