Sick Days on Shine

5 Smart (and Not So Smart) Excuses for Missing Work

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When is it okay for teachers and professors to miss work? TheApple.com found 5 real and 5 unbelievable reasons educators should NOT be the head of the class.

5 SMART EXCUSES

1. Sickness and Injuries

If you’re really sick, you…

Should you get free sick days for swine flu?

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Among the issues cast into the spotlight by the prospect of

More sick day survival: Make a "get better box"

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We're on week four of the never-ending gross, wet cough, runny nose and endless tissue in the crazedparent house. You know what I'm talking about: the cold that gets passed back and forth among the entire family for…

Flu Shot? No thank you. I'll just keep working

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I knew I was in trouble the instant my 2-year-old rubbed his face and then laid his damp little hand on my cheek. No symptoms yet, but the sign was clear:...

Where have all the sick days gone?

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One in six workers say they or a family member have been fired, suspended, punished or threatened by an employer due to illness.

More than three-quarters of workers polled in a national survey view paid sick days as a basic right of employment that should be guaranteed by the government. The survey was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago and funded by the Public Welfare Foundation in Washington , DC .

I'm sick, and I'm going to work anyway. Sound familiar?

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I’m sick. Again.

Of course, I’m at work. Why do you ask?

The other night, my husband remarked that, in the past few months, both he and I have been sick more frequently than ever before. But why? Sure, we’re overworked, but not any more than we’ve always been. We’ve been eating more healthily, exercising more often — OK, that’s a lie, he’s been exercising, I’ve been, um… look over there! Something shiny!

Really, though, we couldn’t figure out why we were caught in this cycle of sinus headaches and hacking coughs. We feebly tossed around a few more ideas (is it the weather? Do we need vitamins?) while my husband reminded L. to cover her mouth when she sneezed and I wiped O.’s streaming nose for the umpteenth time, and then it hit us …