re: Paid Sick Days when you're NOT sick

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I don't understand why maternity/paternity leave is such a taboo thing for many businesses. Labor and delivery often equates to surgery for the mother. Not to mention bonding and other support needed with a new baby.

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the American will never understand how much better it COULD be because we are constantly pushing ourselves in the name of profit and productivity.... there's a reason most of Europe has a much higher quality of life and longer life expectancy than we do here....

look i love America... wouldn't want to live anywhere else (except maybe Florence, Italy if i was insanely rich, but i digress...), but sometimes adapting to other ideas can be a GOOD thing, and while i don't like everything Europe, there are some very good things going on over there that with a little sacrifice and understanding, would be good for America too...

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but I am also getting an additional 6 weeks of paternity leave starting in March.

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Are you serious?? I'm taking one week off for the birth of my twins but 6 weeks is crazy for a male

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Paid Sick Days when you're NOT sick

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Like others, I use them for doctor's appointments or if I'm sick. I have vacation and personal days for random days off.

I feel guilty if I use sick time when I'm not sick.

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I have vacation and personal days for random days off. I feel guilty if I use sick time when I'm not sick.

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A lot of people don't get "personal" days. But this begs the question, what's the point in having 3 different types of PTO? So you use vacation to go on vacation, sick time when you're sick, and personal days every other time. Seems like a company that wants to sell potential employees on how many benefits they offer while dissuading employees on using them.

If I get vacation days and sick days, I'm using the vacation time whenever I want to take multiple days off in a row, and sick days for random days throughout the year.

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That life thing... try it out.

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You think working 8-4 five days a week doesn't give me time for working out or going out to the bars?

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Are you serious?? I'm taking one week off for the birth of my twins but 6 weeks is crazy for a male

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Yep. And I can break it up three times over a year. I am taking two two week blocks in 2017 and saving a two block for early 2018. My dumbass should have told my wife that I only got four weeks so I could have taken two weeks off and dicked around the city during the day while she thought I was at work.

If not sick, don't use em. Or use one as a personal day.

20 years with 10 sick days per, took less than 6 total.

They're sick days, not vacation days. Zero respect for people that magically get sick for the exact number of sick days allowed each year. And no pity for the schmucks that use up all of their sick days and then have none left when they get sick for real towards the end of the year.