have you ever gotten a doctor's note to miss work?

[WalterMitty]

no.

[Eraserhead]

No. lol.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Who would he make it out to?  Me?  Lol.

[Franzl]

Seems like a relatively normal concept, actually....just not if you do it once a week.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I haven't missed school due to illness since high school. My greek immune system is just so powerful.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

As someone who gets flu once a year and gets unpredictable severe migraines.... yes.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

I haven't missed school due to illness since high school. My greek immune system is just so powerful.

And yet when you guys do get sick, you spread it around to the rest of Europe too.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Sickness is for the weak.

[Smid]

No. There are certainly times I have been ill and absent from work, and there has even been once or twice where I've been away long enough that if my employer had requested it, I would have been legally obligated to provide one (three or more consecutive days' absence) - that was a particularly nasty bout of gastro that had me out of action for a week (I think everyone was probably more relieved I didn't try coming in when I had that...). I don't take sick days unless I really need them, though, and I think that this has given me the credibility that I've never been asked for a doctor's certificate.

[morgieb]

I gave one for school as I was taking a test on a day I felt like death. I haven't been in a position to work to get a doctor's certificate.

[angus]

I have not.  In fact, I never heard of such a thing till recently.  It seems to be all the rage here, though.  If my son brings in a little paper from his pediatrician's office, he gets an "excused" absence.  If he doesn't, it's an "unexcused" absence.  I'm not sure what the difference is, but I do know that he's allowed only a maximum of ten "unexcused" absences.  Not sure what they'd really do after ten.  Also, my own students sometimes bring me little pages from the campus health clinic.  "Please excuse Morty Goldstein from class today.  He has sinusitis.  Thank you, Nurse Cunningham."  Um, okay.  Do I keep this?  No, sir, I need to show it to my other professors, but you can make a copy for you records, though.  Well, that's okay, I don't think I'll need a copy.  I scribbled some stuff on the back, though.  Sorry about that.  I was thinking about a problem and it was handy so I used it for scratch paper.  Oh, that's okay, so long as you didn't write on the front of it.  Oh, no, the front of it was already written on.  Okay, then.

Who thinks of these things?  If you're sick, then take the day off.  If I'm your employer I don't need to see some paper.  I'm already behind because you missed a day.  Now I'm ten minutes more behind because I had to have this asinine conversation, and another ten minutes behind because I have to figure out where to file this stupid piece of paper.   Just more bureaucracy. 

[tik 🪀✨]

Of course I have. I do it at least once a year, if not more. It's a mild inconvenience in an otherwise nice day of relaxation.

Who thinks of these things?  If you're sick, then take the day off.  If I'm your employer I don't need to see some paper.  I'm already behind because you missed a day.  Now I'm ten minutes more behind because I had to have this asinine conversation, and another ten minutes behind because I have to figure out where to file this stupid piece of paper.   Just more bureaucracy.

My workplace has a policy of requiring a doctor's certificate when you take a sick day on days that follow or lead into days off. I imagine this policy is to ensure people aren't taking sickies just to enjoy longer weekends and holidays as easily. All it really does is interrupt your long weekend for a quick swing into the doctor's to tell them about the just awful diarrhea you've been experiencing and how it kept you up all night. "Uh huh, yes, I understand," they say with sympathetic faces and hand you a slip of paper. Everybody's got that doctor they can rely on for their slip of paper.

[angus]

Of course I have. I do it at least once a year, if not more. It's a mild inconvenience in an otherwise nice day of relaxation.

Who thinks of these things?  If you're sick, then take the day off.  If I'm your employer I don't need to see some paper.  I'm already behind because you missed a day.  Now I'm ten minutes more behind because I had to have this asinine conversation, and another ten minutes behind because I have to figure out where to file this stupid piece of paper.   Just more bureaucracy.

My workplace has a policy of requiring a doctor's certificate when you take a sick day on days that follow or lead into days off. I imagine this policy is to ensure people aren't taking sickies just to enjoy longer weekends and holidays as easily. All it really does is interrupt your long weekend for a quick swing into the doctor's to tell them about the just awful diarrhea you've been experiencing and how it kept you up all night. "Uh huh, yes, I understand," they say with sympathetic faces and hand you a slip of paper. Everybody's got that doctor they can rely on for their slip of paper.

I think there's probably more to it.  If I'm your employer and you have a mild sickness and stay home because you don't want to get others sick, it's not a huge problem.  I miss some productivity.  You still get your 80 thousand dollars from me that year, but now maybe I only get 79.8 thousand dollars of productivity out of you.  Not a huge deal for me, really.  Unless I was counting on you for a big presentation on which millions of dollars hung in the balance, that is.  In that case, no amount of paperwork from a physician's office will make up for your absence. 

Same with the schools.  If my son is really sick and we keep him home, then we keep him home and it's for everyone's benefit.  In the case that a pediatrician's visit is warranted, then of course we'll take him to visit a pediatrician, but to take him to the pediatrician solely for the purpose of satisfying a bureaucracy is wasteful.  For that little note, my insurance company will be billed $171 by his pediatrician's office.  Of course, my insurance company won't pay $171 for such an office visit, because it thinks that the office visit is worth exactly $143.72, so its employees will send the pediatrician's office a letter to that effect.  The pediatrician's office will then reduce its bill from $171 to $143.72 and send my insurance company a letter indicating the new price.  The insurance company will then cut a check for $143.72 and mail it to the pediatricians office.  The cost, in man-hours, which supports this exchange is bound to be significant.  I'd reckon at least fifty dollars total if we count both ends.  Thus, about two hundred dollars will be transferred in the economy just to satisfy a bureaucracy.  Ultimately, this two hundred dollars, and millions of other dollars resulting from thousands of these small transactions daily will be borne by the consumer.  Those paying the insurance premium.  (or, in maybe in the case of your society, by those paying taxes.)  And none of that even considers the cost to the employer of the employee taking the sick day, should that employer's bosses require such paperwork.  That employer will have costs associated with filing the paperwork in the manner that its board of directors direct.  It will use ink in printing the policy, and it will give its administrators and secretaries more busywork, and it will cut into the employee's valuable time because the employee must present the notice as directed.  Moreover, the already busy workers in the reception areas of clinics have much to do.  Why burden them with the extra task of preparing written notices of clinical visits so that their patients can satisfy a company's pencilpushers?

It all amounts to unnecessary paperwork and unnecessary expenditure.  I would not vote to introduce such a policy if I were on the board of directors of a company.  I would, of course, take a keen interest in vetting the employee candidates to be hired, and in so doing attempt to prevent the hiring the sorts of individuals who would exploit a feigned illness in order to gain a three-day weekend, but I would not want to require written evidence of a clinic visit, nor require an employer to visit a clinic in those cases wherein the illness, though severe enough to cause the employee to miss work, may not require the services of a physician.

Just my opinion.

[Mordecai]

Never.

[dead0man]

no


/in before the Nancy's start in with the "quit posturing whitey"

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

No, but I don't get sick very often.

[DC Al Fine]

Once, for an allergic reaction to pennicillin. Otherwise I've been lucky and only had the standard cold/flus now and again.

[AkSaber]

No, but I don't get sick very often.

[AndrewTX]

The only time I ever had one was when I was hospitalized, and I had to miss a week of work. The note was only because it is required to receive more than 3 days sick time at once.

[Torie]

No. But then, I have never had a job that would ever involve needing such a thing. It was more like a job where you a fair amount had to work on Weekends.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Nope. I've called in "sick" far more often when I was perfectly healthy than actually sick (and my work is basically OK with it, their view being you have your allotted sick days and can use them for whatever you want, just don't go over.) I think I've only missed work because of legitimate illness like 2-3 times in the past five years.