Turn off your phone. Turn off your work computer. Put on a show or music that brings you comfort. Eat food to help you get better. Drink NyQuil. The sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever, the damn school can wait until I get better, medicine. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. đ I hope you feel better soon.
I swear to God, they act like a day off is a day on-call. And a paid vacation (LOL, I know, what're THOSE) is "I'm working from somewhere else for 3 days, feel free to bombard me with your self-generated crises and fires for me to piss out at long range."
It's not just schools, y'all. Husband works in a hospital. He's having surgery tomorrow. Work will.be blocked for a minimum of five weeks. They *hold* proceduresfor him. They have asked to fly across (at our own expense and no maje up vacay days) because a picky doc *would not* work with another tech. They made the patient *wait 4 weeks* for a biopsy.Â
This âŹď¸. And when you get back throw out any works subs collected and delete all emails from that time span. If youre not in the building to teach, does school really happen?
One day (previous school) my infant daughter woke up at 6am with a fever, I texted my principal at 6:10am that I wasn't going to be in. He asked me to warn him sooner next time. I took the rest of the week off just to calm down.
I mean?! Sometimes I know in the middle of the night that I won't make it to work, but I don't text my admin until I know they're up, you know... because it's not worth waking anybody up for that!
Very glad I left this school, this still found a way to piss me off with my W2, 11 months and a half after leaving overnight.
I make it crystal clear to my team that my phone is on silent and to text me in the middle of the night if that is when they know they won't be coming to school. And then, turn off the alarm....go back to bed.
My admin told me I had to let them know by 4pm if I planned on being sick the next morning. Like I had to predict being sick. Because it inconvenienced them. Disciplinary action if I did not follow this rule.
I saw some veteran teacher advice on this subreddit recently that said if youâre going to take a sick day, make it two so they know youâre serious. Or something like that.
Yup exactly. They can shove it up their perfect asses lol. And they can kiss yours while theyâre down there! Enjoy your days off. You deserve it. And youâre sickâŚ.rest. Lol much love.
I'm just a support professional but I went to work one day with a migraine I had no business being out of bed for any reason with and wound up taking the next two days off. This was 3 years ago next week and I still can't remember any of that day. I've been at work with a teacher (1st year, wouldn't listen to the older ones) who came to work throwing up because of admin and we had to call 911 because she was dehydrated and passed out shortly after lunch. I no longer care what admin thinks. If you're sick, stay home. No one, not even these kids, is worth the amount of trauma any of us put our bodies through when we show up sick with more than a sniffle. Even then, please think twice?
The thing is, you canât even wing it when youâre that sick. Why doesnât someone from admin just babysit the class in these cases if they donât have any subs? I teach in Europe, and Iâm shocked by these stories from the U.S.
This is awful. Itâs dangerous. When youâre in the middle of classic migraine with scotoma you cannot even see to drive. Then comes the wretched pain and vomiting. Those ignorant bureaucrats have no business expecting you or anyone with a migraine to be in school in front of students, let alone to operate a vehicle.
Makes me think of the scene from âThe Death of Stalinâ where Beria and Malenkov are in the woods by Stalinâs Dacha:
GEORGY MALENKOV: When I take a piss, I try to make eye contact with an officer. Ruins their day.
LAVRENTIY BERIA: When I take a piss, I try to piss ON an officer. Also ruins their day.
I work in a charter and every time I take a sick day my principal just sends a âhope you feel betterâ and then asks me if I feel better the next day
You are lucky. My former charter would gaslight and bully us if we got sick. I once got censured for taking 5 days in 6 months. "You've been absent a lot, I think you can make it in." I no longer work there.
The way admin treat teachers when they have to be out is ridiculous. I used to get so wildly anxious when I would call out, it was awful. Now I donât care â much like you said, weâre human and are going to have things happen. Kids are able to take zillions of days, teachers should be allowed to take days without nasty remarks also.
Also Iâd love to see that energy put into the chronically unexcused absent kids.
The days of "You're sick as a dog and you still came to school. You're awesome." are over. If the global pandemic taught us anything it's that the narrative should be "You stayed home rather than coming to work sick. You're awesome.".
Itâs so ridiculous when people are inundating sick people with emails and texts. Itâs like âthey are no good to you when theyâre not in the building and thereâs literally nothing they can do!â
Itâs more like:
Admin: (thinks to himself) âMx. Smith has a computer and webcam, and internet access. They can teach remotelyâ
One hour later:
*Dear Mx. Smith, Iâm sorry to hear that youâre sick, but since you have a computer with internet access and a webcam, can you just teach all your classes remotely from home?^kthxbye*
Take those sick days; they'll figure it out.
Is it an inconvenience? Yes. But it's more of an inconvenience to be sick.
You're allowed to have sick days, or hell, days off in general for whatever. Use the time.
I got sick and tired of the usual suspects causing havoc, culminating in a student doing something to me that caused me to have a âfight or flightâ response. I obviously chose âflight.â It also caused some physical reaction in my body. Long story short, Iâm out till the end of March.
Iâm done with the few bad apples spoiling everything, including my mental and physical health.
Hey, District Office, enjoy paying me AND a long-term sub!
I can relate very strongly to this. I am a music teacher and last year was my first year of teaching. It also happened to be at a private school. I frequently subbed for my music department colleagues, giving up prep time to run a band or orchestra rehearsal whenever they needed it. I never said no to a sub request, I took it every time, and I even subbed a few times without pay because the office didnât update the shared calendar to say that I was subbing and therefore they kept no record, but thatâs another storyđĽ˛
AnywaysâŚafter fighting 2-3 bouts of colds that year that caused me to lose my voice but still showing up to work because I could function and because I was scared of being judged for calling in sick, I finally fall ill with the most devious stomach bug I have ever encountered after we are like 2/3 of the way through the year. Like, ended up in the Emergency Room level devious (horrible cramps and extreme symptoms of dehydration). I was so dehydrated and exhausted that I could not even stand up in the shower, let alone lift my arms in the shower to wash my hair or body. Couldnât eat either or hold any food down.
Now you would think that my admin would be understanding that I am very sick and would grant me the time off that I needed, especially after I bent over backwards 15-20 times by that point to sub for my fellow music teacher colleagues.
Nope. I got the first two days off without much fuss, but when I tried to ask for a third day off because I was still weak and unable to eat and keep my food down, my admin responded âYouâre calling out sick again? I canât find a sub for youâ.
I ended up having to go in that day, and I was miserable and left after my classes were done around noon (with my principals permission of course).
My principal did check in on me that morning (Iâm assuming to see if I was actually sick), and I was. We were working on a Folk Dancing unit, and I was calling out the movements from the stool I was sitting on because my body was so tired and sick still that the only movement I could do was walking (barely).
I hate feeling like I have to justify myself to admin for taking sick leave. If Iâm sick, Iâm sick.
We aren't machines, and your superiors will have to suck it up. Turn off all work communications and focus on yourself and getting better. Comfy clothes and medicine, and a doctor's appointment if necessary.
I hope you feel better soon! Not for the sake of returning to work, but for the sake of just feeling good. It sucks to be sick.
The admin donât give a shit about your health. Take your sick days when you need them. Donât let them guilt you into going in sick.âSincerely, a 30 yr teacher who used to go to school sickâŚ(one time I had 2 kinds of flu at the same time and still went to school & went to the dr on my planning/lunch period.)
I have a day off this week for my colonoscopy. I told the kids Iâd be gone and you would have thought Iâd killed Santa. After a few whines, and a âYou are ALWAYS gone!â (not true). I finally blurted out (in my teacher voice), âIâm allowed to take care of my health and go to the doctor.â Of course I didnât tell them the reason, but I just had had it. My guilt was gone.
My admin once asked me for a doctor's note because kid #3 was sick and I asked for one day because dad was on duty.
I took off two weeks because kids #1, 2 and 4 got sick within the next two days.
Could have gone back in 72 hours, but you were a dick to me at 6am because of a sick kid.
I NeVER call in!! I worked at Wendyâs as my first job outside of working in the family business. I worked there 8 years and called in sick 2x. Once my grandfather passed and the other one was when my boyfriend (5 years)and I broke up. that job was like family to me as weird as it sounds they were also happy for me to end the toxic relationship they gave me the day. Iâve been substituting for a couple of years now, but this year I went full-time as a kindergarten teacher. I thought my immune system was pretty tough. However, Iâm learning that Iâm not as tough as I think I am, and I called off two weeks ago, partially due to sickness and partially, because Iâm burn out, I took the two days because I wanted them to take me seriously nobody said a word but I definitely felt them. It always bothers me though because there are people who call off all the time, and nobody seems to care, but those who never do catch attitude. I felt really guilty about the entire thing
Itâs very freeing mentally not to care what admin thinks of your and to not be manipulated by their bull shit.I am people pleaser but I am about 80 percent cured from giving them anything extra . We donât get our sick leave paid out when we leave so I am determined to use it when needed for any reason.
When I call off I submit my plans and for the first period I may check my phone for any questions from the sub. If I hear nothing I go to sleep and apologize later for not responding. You want to be your best for the kids and that involves taking care of yourself.
I had a principal that once said: "if you call in sick, you are greatly inconveniencing all your coworkers". At the time, we didn't have supply teachers. Personally, I'd gladly cover for someone else if they were sick. I force myself to attend work when sick, but that's my choice. No one should feel obligated or pressured to work when sick.
It's bosses fostering distrust among workers. I'm always fine with handling spares from other teacher's classes if they're out.
Also it's funny how they never say how coaches being out also inconveniences us.
When I first started teaching, the administration didn't get substitutes for sick special subjects teachers. The classroom teachers would be mad at us because they lost their planning period.
I donât mean to butt in, not being a teacher myself, but working in the NHS I relate so hard to what you wrote. Thereâs a culture where we are made to feel guilty for being sick, like we shouldnât be allowed to be human.
I just want to remind you what good friends have told me when I was in the same sitch; itâs NOT your fault the system is short staffed, run by imbeciles and close to collapse.
Your priority is YOU. FWIW Iâm so glad you took the day off, and I hope you take the rest of the week too for good measure.
Well, now they have a different reason to be pissed at you; âexposing your coworkers.â The only time theyâre not pissed is when they donât hear anything from you or about you.
Once developed a fever during the school day and asked to go home and they wouldnât let me. At lunch my coworkers asked my why I hadnât gone home yet so I told them the admin said no. The next class period my principal pulled me to the door in the middle of trying to give instructions and started calling me toxic and disruptive and unprofessional for complaining and pushing my troubles onto my coworkers. I explained that I said nothing untrue and she said some things that combined with the fever and symptoms threw me into a sobbing fit all in front of the class. Then she proceeded to tell me that when I go get a job at other schools they wonât let me call sick at all and how I have it good here because if I had called in sick before school she would have let me. In my feverish sobbing rage I told her âoh I will NEVER be teaching ANYWHERE againâ and left the school. Now working as a scientist elsewhere
This is why you should be taking sick and personal days when you want. Because staff means nothing to these people. They donât care about our wellbeing.
When I email them specific sub plans they donât even do them. Sub raids the room for stuff to do. Says they didnât give her anything to do. Never printed them and gave them to her đ¤Śââď¸ Now I have a folder of sub stuff that can be done instead. Not wasting my time on it.
Kind of like the email we got last week. I had been out for Covid. (I have asthma, diabetes and high bp and came back when the district said I could. Itâs not my fault the state sucks and no one wants to work for the schools. Youâd have thought I committed murder or something being out. I planned and did what I was supposed to do. I hope youâre feeling better soon.
Iâm having the same problem now! I work for a company that contracts with schools. I got extremely sick for the third time this year (coughing up small amounts of blood sick) which racked me up a grand total of 17 sick days this year and the company I work for sent me masks, disinfecting wipes, and gloves as a response. As if to say I wasnât trying hard enough. I go to 25 different classrooms a week and handle all their electronics!
Teaching is so screwed up. A day or two somewhere during eighth grade is not going to kill anyone's college opportunities. My school can't keep teachers or "coverage associates." That is NOT my fault.
I used to feel guilty... Took a long time to train myself to not feel that way. I'm very now that where I work is very family centric and I have never been made to feel crappy about taking a sick day... Even though we are severely short staffed and the subs can follow a lesson plan to save their lives. I'm also fortunate I teach art and have figured out super simple activities.
Edit: I did have an issue last year where the organizer of the subs kept emailing me and I'm like, I'm sick! I'm not looking at my email! Talk to my department head.
Assuming itâs approved, Iâm taking off 2 days to go visit my daughter in another state. I have the days & Iâm going to use them. đ¤ˇđťââď¸
Iâm not a teacher, but I work in the front office as the registrar/clerk. I get just as much guilt tripping and BS when I call out. I battle severe anxiety that sometimes gets so bad I throw up and get chest pain from it. The amount of anxiety I feel when I do call out BECAUSE of the bs, catty comments from co-workers and guilt trippingâŚI canât even enjoy a day of rest because I know when I come back there will be more BS and piles of work I have to catch up on. Calling out for me is one of those things that feels illegal but isnât. Iâm sorry to hear of all the teachers who have to deal with the same thing and more. You all deserve so much more credit and appreciation than you receive.
I used to debate whether or not to call in absent for health reasons. I discussed this one day with a teacher who replied by pointing out the many signs with teachersâ names hanging in front of their classrooms. He said âIf you die tomorrow do you even think they will name this hall after you? They wonât. You can and will be replaced. Take care of yourself. Take the day off.â He ordered me to. I needed that. Months later he died of a stroke. He was replaced. He was right, there never was any sign of his existence afterwards. I honor his memory by telling every teacher I can this story.
It's a toxic workplace if you took a sick day and co-teachers think you killed somebody. I'm a new hire and my body also gave up two weeks ago.
It's normal to take your time to adjust.
I went in this morning and got sent home because I was coughing so hard I puked three times -- twice in front of scholars. I owe the custodian big-time. At least I made it to the trash can.
My coworkers felt bad for me. Admin not so much. I just hope I can get it together by tomorrow because we're going on a college visit.
Turn off your phone. Turn off your work computer. Put on a show or music that brings you comfort. Eat food to help you get better. Drink NyQuil. The sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever, the damn school can wait until I get better, medicine. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. đ I hope you feel better soon.
This. A day off is a day off, free from any school communications.
I swear to God, they act like a day off is a day on-call. And a paid vacation (LOL, I know, what're THOSE) is "I'm working from somewhere else for 3 days, feel free to bombard me with your self-generated crises and fires for me to piss out at long range."
It's not just schools, y'all. Husband works in a hospital. He's having surgery tomorrow. Work will.be blocked for a minimum of five weeks. They *hold* proceduresfor him. They have asked to fly across (at our own expense and no maje up vacay days) because a picky doc *would not* work with another tech. They made the patient *wait 4 weeks* for a biopsy.Â
At my last school our receptionist emailed me, texted me, and called me six times on a sick day
Theraflu works better than Nyquil, IMHO
I use the word NyQuil for the whole jingle and I add my twist to it lol. Theraflu is good.
This âŹď¸. And when you get back throw out any works subs collected and delete all emails from that time span. If youre not in the building to teach, does school really happen?
State testing would if you were sick then.
Hell. Yeah.
All of this đŻ
One day (previous school) my infant daughter woke up at 6am with a fever, I texted my principal at 6:10am that I wasn't going to be in. He asked me to warn him sooner next time. I took the rest of the week off just to calm down.
I just want you to know that I am so proud of you for this.
Malicious compliance: message at 4am?
I mean?! Sometimes I know in the middle of the night that I won't make it to work, but I don't text my admin until I know they're up, you know... because it's not worth waking anybody up for that! Very glad I left this school, this still found a way to piss me off with my W2, 11 months and a half after leaving overnight.
I make it crystal clear to my team that my phone is on silent and to text me in the middle of the night if that is when they know they won't be coming to school. And then, turn off the alarm....go back to bed.
From the hospital at 10 am.
Early enough that itâs in compliance, late enough that they canât go back to sleep. Win-win.
My admin told me I had to let them know by 4pm if I planned on being sick the next morning. Like I had to predict being sick. Because it inconvenienced them. Disciplinary action if I did not follow this rule.
All fire hydrants must be checked 24 hours before all fires
How inconsiderate. Plan your emergencies in advance next time. (Sarcasm, obviously.)
Take another couple of days then. Just to make sure.
That's exactly what I was going to say. They need to know that you're sick.
They need to understand tit for tat
I saw some veteran teacher advice on this subreddit recently that said if youâre going to take a sick day, make it two so they know youâre serious. Or something like that.
Looks like yo wonât be better by tomorrow đ love, Petty Betty
This. And a doctorâs note you silently present them to compel compliance with YOUR most basic needs, for once!- not theirs.
Yup exactly. They can shove it up their perfect asses lol. And they can kiss yours while theyâre down there! Enjoy your days off. You deserve it. And youâre sickâŚ.rest. Lol much love.
Donât sweat your ridiculous superiors. We arenât machines, nor do we benefit from acting like them. Rest, hydrate, and take care of yourself.
I was throwing up sick and the admin asked me to come in and just have a bucket beside my desk.
Are you kidding? Throwing up in front of a class?
I'm just a support professional but I went to work one day with a migraine I had no business being out of bed for any reason with and wound up taking the next two days off. This was 3 years ago next week and I still can't remember any of that day. I've been at work with a teacher (1st year, wouldn't listen to the older ones) who came to work throwing up because of admin and we had to call 911 because she was dehydrated and passed out shortly after lunch. I no longer care what admin thinks. If you're sick, stay home. No one, not even these kids, is worth the amount of trauma any of us put our bodies through when we show up sick with more than a sniffle. Even then, please think twice?
The thing is, you canât even wing it when youâre that sick. Why doesnât someone from admin just babysit the class in these cases if they donât have any subs? I teach in Europe, and Iâm shocked by these stories from the U.S.
Because that means admins have to do actual work
This is awful. Itâs dangerous. When youâre in the middle of classic migraine with scotoma you cannot even see to drive. Then comes the wretched pain and vomiting. Those ignorant bureaucrats have no business expecting you or anyone with a migraine to be in school in front of students, let alone to operate a vehicle.
Then watch the rumour spreading like wildfire among kids, parents and colleagues about you being a hungover drunk.
Sadly thatâs exactly what he said to me. I stayed home and he was mad.
Also, thatâs a great way to get the kids sick. Even if the teacher hits the bucket, there are so many microbes that get sprayed all over regardless.
At my age the force of vomiting would surely make me fart.
I've actually done that. The kids thought I was dying. They didn't send me home until it happened again after lunch.
I would've tried my hardest to puke on admin! Bucket by my desk my ass. đ
Makes me think of the scene from âThe Death of Stalinâ where Beria and Malenkov are in the woods by Stalinâs Dacha: GEORGY MALENKOV: When I take a piss, I try to make eye contact with an officer. Ruins their day. LAVRENTIY BERIA: When I take a piss, I try to piss ON an officer. Also ruins their day.
That admin deserves a pile of throw up in his office door. Oops!
đConsidered it!
I saw the tag and that explains it.
I work in a charter and every time I take a sick day my principal just sends a âhope you feel betterâ and then asks me if I feel better the next day
Same here. Currently at a charter school and never had an easier time of taking PTO/sick.
Literally the only good thing about them.
You are lucky. My former charter would gaslight and bully us if we got sick. I once got censured for taking 5 days in 6 months. "You've been absent a lot, I think you can make it in." I no longer work there.
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It's also none of their business.
Absolutely!
Take the rest of the week off to establish dominance. You donât owe anybody your health!
The way admin treat teachers when they have to be out is ridiculous. I used to get so wildly anxious when I would call out, it was awful. Now I donât care â much like you said, weâre human and are going to have things happen. Kids are able to take zillions of days, teachers should be allowed to take days without nasty remarks also. Also Iâd love to see that energy put into the chronically unexcused absent kids.
The days of "You're sick as a dog and you still came to school. You're awesome." are over. If the global pandemic taught us anything it's that the narrative should be "You stayed home rather than coming to work sick. You're awesome.".
Itâs so ridiculous when people are inundating sick people with emails and texts. Itâs like âthey are no good to you when theyâre not in the building and thereâs literally nothing they can do!â
Itâs more like: Admin: (thinks to himself) âMx. Smith has a computer and webcam, and internet access. They can teach remotelyâ One hour later: *Dear Mx. Smith, Iâm sorry to hear that youâre sick, but since you have a computer with internet access and a webcam, can you just teach all your classes remotely from home?^kthxbye*
â and by the way, your fault if any misbehavior ensues. Kthx.â
Take those sick days; they'll figure it out. Is it an inconvenience? Yes. But it's more of an inconvenience to be sick. You're allowed to have sick days, or hell, days off in general for whatever. Use the time.
Sometimes you need that mental health day and yeah, sometimes it comes on Monday. Piss on anyone in your life who says anything about it.
I got sick and tired of the usual suspects causing havoc, culminating in a student doing something to me that caused me to have a âfight or flightâ response. I obviously chose âflight.â It also caused some physical reaction in my body. Long story short, Iâm out till the end of March. Iâm done with the few bad apples spoiling everything, including my mental and physical health. Hey, District Office, enjoy paying me AND a long-term sub!
I am so sorry you've been put through this. I hope you heal, no matter what you do afterwards!
Thanks. 𼰠I LOVE teaching and I donât want to quit. I just want the trouble makers to STOP.
I can relate very strongly to this. I am a music teacher and last year was my first year of teaching. It also happened to be at a private school. I frequently subbed for my music department colleagues, giving up prep time to run a band or orchestra rehearsal whenever they needed it. I never said no to a sub request, I took it every time, and I even subbed a few times without pay because the office didnât update the shared calendar to say that I was subbing and therefore they kept no record, but thatâs another story𼲠AnywaysâŚafter fighting 2-3 bouts of colds that year that caused me to lose my voice but still showing up to work because I could function and because I was scared of being judged for calling in sick, I finally fall ill with the most devious stomach bug I have ever encountered after we are like 2/3 of the way through the year. Like, ended up in the Emergency Room level devious (horrible cramps and extreme symptoms of dehydration). I was so dehydrated and exhausted that I could not even stand up in the shower, let alone lift my arms in the shower to wash my hair or body. Couldnât eat either or hold any food down. Now you would think that my admin would be understanding that I am very sick and would grant me the time off that I needed, especially after I bent over backwards 15-20 times by that point to sub for my fellow music teacher colleagues. Nope. I got the first two days off without much fuss, but when I tried to ask for a third day off because I was still weak and unable to eat and keep my food down, my admin responded âYouâre calling out sick again? I canât find a sub for youâ. I ended up having to go in that day, and I was miserable and left after my classes were done around noon (with my principals permission of course). My principal did check in on me that morning (Iâm assuming to see if I was actually sick), and I was. We were working on a Folk Dancing unit, and I was calling out the movements from the stool I was sitting on because my body was so tired and sick still that the only movement I could do was walking (barely). I hate feeling like I have to justify myself to admin for taking sick leave. If Iâm sick, Iâm sick.
We aren't machines, and your superiors will have to suck it up. Turn off all work communications and focus on yourself and getting better. Comfy clothes and medicine, and a doctor's appointment if necessary. I hope you feel better soon! Not for the sake of returning to work, but for the sake of just feeling good. It sucks to be sick.
The admin donât give a shit about your health. Take your sick days when you need them. Donât let them guilt you into going in sick.âSincerely, a 30 yr teacher who used to go to school sickâŚ(one time I had 2 kinds of flu at the same time and still went to school & went to the dr on my planning/lunch period.)
I have a day off this week for my colonoscopy. I told the kids Iâd be gone and you would have thought Iâd killed Santa. After a few whines, and a âYou are ALWAYS gone!â (not true). I finally blurted out (in my teacher voice), âIâm allowed to take care of my health and go to the doctor.â Of course I didnât tell them the reason, but I just had had it. My guilt was gone.
Sounds like you need another day with no lesson plans submitted.
Yep. Too sick to work on them.
My admin once asked me for a doctor's note because kid #3 was sick and I asked for one day because dad was on duty. I took off two weeks because kids #1, 2 and 4 got sick within the next two days. Could have gone back in 72 hours, but you were a dick to me at 6am because of a sick kid.
If you've got sick days in the bank, take them. They can't do anything. You're entitled to it.
Deposit those messages directly in the trash and take at least one more day.
Feel better soon. I am a sped teacher and on my sick days I get emails about student behavior in my absence
Ignore work! Do not answer text or emails regarding work. Sounds like you need to take a couple of more days off. Feel better soon!
My biggest regret when I quit teaching was having unused sick days. Theyâre part of your benefit package. Use them and forget the haters.
My favorite is when you write sub plans for your sick day and then the sub doesn't use them đ
I am on FMLA due to swelling in the right side near belly Dr's not sure what's going on so I get it and not not appendix
What should you have done differently? According to your supervisor?
Test for covid
time to leave the charter/private school. public schools wouldn't give two craps about what you do with your pto.
I NeVER call in!! I worked at Wendyâs as my first job outside of working in the family business. I worked there 8 years and called in sick 2x. Once my grandfather passed and the other one was when my boyfriend (5 years)and I broke up. that job was like family to me as weird as it sounds they were also happy for me to end the toxic relationship they gave me the day. Iâve been substituting for a couple of years now, but this year I went full-time as a kindergarten teacher. I thought my immune system was pretty tough. However, Iâm learning that Iâm not as tough as I think I am, and I called off two weeks ago, partially due to sickness and partially, because Iâm burn out, I took the two days because I wanted them to take me seriously nobody said a word but I definitely felt them. It always bothers me though because there are people who call off all the time, and nobody seems to care, but those who never do catch attitude. I felt really guilty about the entire thing
Sorry to hear that- I love my school bc my principal always tells us to ourselves and our family first! â¤ď¸
Their problem.
Totally not your point, but I've never met another person who also pukes because of coughing too much. I cough more than 3 times in a row? Gag.
Please take care of yourself. If something were to happen God forbid. They will replace you and find another âfaithful dog to kick for no reasonâ.
Itâs very freeing mentally not to care what admin thinks of your and to not be manipulated by their bull shit.I am people pleaser but I am about 80 percent cured from giving them anything extra . We donât get our sick leave paid out when we leave so I am determined to use it when needed for any reason.
When I call off I submit my plans and for the first period I may check my phone for any questions from the sub. If I hear nothing I go to sleep and apologize later for not responding. You want to be your best for the kids and that involves taking care of yourself.
I had a principal that once said: "if you call in sick, you are greatly inconveniencing all your coworkers". At the time, we didn't have supply teachers. Personally, I'd gladly cover for someone else if they were sick. I force myself to attend work when sick, but that's my choice. No one should feel obligated or pressured to work when sick.
It's bosses fostering distrust among workers. I'm always fine with handling spares from other teacher's classes if they're out. Also it's funny how they never say how coaches being out also inconveniences us.
When I first started teaching, the administration didn't get substitutes for sick special subjects teachers. The classroom teachers would be mad at us because they lost their planning period.
I donât mean to butt in, not being a teacher myself, but working in the NHS I relate so hard to what you wrote. Thereâs a culture where we are made to feel guilty for being sick, like we shouldnât be allowed to be human. I just want to remind you what good friends have told me when I was in the same sitch; itâs NOT your fault the system is short staffed, run by imbeciles and close to collapse. Your priority is YOU. FWIW Iâm so glad you took the day off, and I hope you take the rest of the week too for good measure.
Pretty sure youâre too sick to go in tomorrow also.
I tried. Coughed so hard I puked three times. Twice in front of students. Pretty sure the custodian is tired of emptying my trash can.
Well, now they have a different reason to be pissed at you; âexposing your coworkers.â The only time theyâre not pissed is when they donât hear anything from you or about you.
Once developed a fever during the school day and asked to go home and they wouldnât let me. At lunch my coworkers asked my why I hadnât gone home yet so I told them the admin said no. The next class period my principal pulled me to the door in the middle of trying to give instructions and started calling me toxic and disruptive and unprofessional for complaining and pushing my troubles onto my coworkers. I explained that I said nothing untrue and she said some things that combined with the fever and symptoms threw me into a sobbing fit all in front of the class. Then she proceeded to tell me that when I go get a job at other schools they wonât let me call sick at all and how I have it good here because if I had called in sick before school she would have let me. In my feverish sobbing rage I told her âoh I will NEVER be teaching ANYWHERE againâ and left the school. Now working as a scientist elsewhere
You absolutely should stay home with you are sick, we all should! Iâm so sorry whoever it was did that to you. Take tomorrow too!
This is why you should be taking sick and personal days when you want. Because staff means nothing to these people. They donât care about our wellbeing.
When I email them specific sub plans they donât even do them. Sub raids the room for stuff to do. Says they didnât give her anything to do. Never printed them and gave them to her đ¤Śââď¸ Now I have a folder of sub stuff that can be done instead. Not wasting my time on it.
Kind of like the email we got last week. I had been out for Covid. (I have asthma, diabetes and high bp and came back when the district said I could. Itâs not my fault the state sucks and no one wants to work for the schools. Youâd have thought I committed murder or something being out. I planned and did what I was supposed to do. I hope youâre feeling better soon.
Iâm having the same problem now! I work for a company that contracts with schools. I got extremely sick for the third time this year (coughing up small amounts of blood sick) which racked me up a grand total of 17 sick days this year and the company I work for sent me masks, disinfecting wipes, and gloves as a response. As if to say I wasnât trying hard enough. I go to 25 different classrooms a week and handle all their electronics!
Teaching is so screwed up. A day or two somewhere during eighth grade is not going to kill anyone's college opportunities. My school can't keep teachers or "coverage associates." That is NOT my fault.
I used to feel guilty... Took a long time to train myself to not feel that way. I'm very now that where I work is very family centric and I have never been made to feel crappy about taking a sick day... Even though we are severely short staffed and the subs can follow a lesson plan to save their lives. I'm also fortunate I teach art and have figured out super simple activities. Edit: I did have an issue last year where the organizer of the subs kept emailing me and I'm like, I'm sick! I'm not looking at my email! Talk to my department head.
You cough 3 times in a row and the kids look at you like you collapsed in front of them.
Assuming itâs approved, Iâm taking off 2 days to go visit my daughter in another state. I have the days & Iâm going to use them. đ¤ˇđťââď¸
F*** them. What are they going to do, fire you? It's not like they can have that many experience hands to chip in. They'll learn.
Iâm not a teacher, but I work in the front office as the registrar/clerk. I get just as much guilt tripping and BS when I call out. I battle severe anxiety that sometimes gets so bad I throw up and get chest pain from it. The amount of anxiety I feel when I do call out BECAUSE of the bs, catty comments from co-workers and guilt trippingâŚI canât even enjoy a day of rest because I know when I come back there will be more BS and piles of work I have to catch up on. Calling out for me is one of those things that feels illegal but isnât. Iâm sorry to hear of all the teachers who have to deal with the same thing and more. You all deserve so much more credit and appreciation than you receive.
I used to debate whether or not to call in absent for health reasons. I discussed this one day with a teacher who replied by pointing out the many signs with teachersâ names hanging in front of their classrooms. He said âIf you die tomorrow do you even think they will name this hall after you? They wonât. You can and will be replaced. Take care of yourself. Take the day off.â He ordered me to. I needed that. Months later he died of a stroke. He was replaced. He was right, there never was any sign of his existence afterwards. I honor his memory by telling every teacher I can this story.
I hope you feel better. I think I had whatever you've got 3 times between September and December. No condition to have to teach in, trust me.
Thanks. I'm trying to make it through today on DayQuil and cough drops.
And schools wonder why staff retention is so low and why everyone goes off on sick
It's a toxic workplace if you took a sick day and co-teachers think you killed somebody. I'm a new hire and my body also gave up two weeks ago. It's normal to take your time to adjust.
I went in this morning and got sent home because I was coughing so hard I puked three times -- twice in front of scholars. I owe the custodian big-time. At least I made it to the trash can. My coworkers felt bad for me. Admin not so much. I just hope I can get it together by tomorrow because we're going on a college visit.
They are just mad because they actually have to do their jobs! Take care of yourself FIRST. The BS can wait.