How to gently discourage my employee from taking sick leave
- Alan Higgins:
You think sick people need to come in to work? So where do you draw the line? Flu? Measles, Ebola? How about a heart attack, broken leg, or necrotizing fasciitis. Cancer? You DON’T gently discourage employees from taking sick leave. Sick people are a liability at work. And when you fuck them over sick leave, they find better jobs, with human bosses.
- Daniel Albert:
Tell them that instead of one person missing work for a short period of time, you’d rather deal with an entire staff of sick people who bring their diseases to work all the time so the entire workplace is constantly infectious. Explain to them that you are a terrible business manager and that they would be better off finding another job before you run your business into the ground that you are apparently operating right now purely because you got lucky in life and happened to be in the right place at the right time, not due to any foresight or competence on your part. Explain to your employee that they are so essential to the function of your business that you will starve to death without them, and they really deserve to be getting the lion’s share of your profits, and you aren’t paying them nearly enough, and that their skills would be worth far more in some other business run by a much better manager, and their future would be far more secure as well. After having this talk, your worker might get the bright idea to find new employment. There, no sick leave. And you did it by being completely honest. Kudos to you, good sir or madam.
- Anthony:
You don’t. How do I less than gently encourage you to engage your brain? Sick leave is a benefit not just to the employee that needs to use it, but to everyone else that remains at work and able to continue working without catching the illness you demand be brought in and shared with everyone else. How is it even possible that you are allowed to manage other employees?
- Ian Perry:
My old employer tried this, when gently didn't work they gave me an extra £200 & told me I sold my right to it. I took a director to one side & informed him one of two things was going to happen. Either you voluntarily reinstate my (6 months pa) sick pay & I continue to take negligible sick leave, keep my head down & not rock the boat. Or I file a grievance & win my sick pay back. I will also raise one extra very costly issue every time I'm dragged into the board room. I will then take 6 months sick every year until you eventually unfairly dismiss me & then pay off a portion of my mortgage in the ensuing legal case. They chose option 2 First time around in the boardroom I also won backpay for non payment of national minimum wage. Second time in the boardroom I won backpay for underpaid holiday, they wisely didn't invite me back for a third go. I think I did two years of full 6 months sick pay, whilst continuing to work part time as a doorman in their local venue just to aggravate them more. So be careful, someone out there might “out bastard” you, given the opportunity.
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