[chillydawg]

Why on earth are sick days included in your paid time off? If you're sick, you're sick? I assume you're in the USA, given that barbaric policy?

[noonespecial]

It's especially barbaric considering this policy leads to more sickness in the workplace by encouraging contagious people to come in and infect everyone else.

Now you must spend your own time recovering from illness that your employer was the primary cause of. That's brilliant right there. U-freakin-S-A.

[MartinCron]

Common barbaric policy here in the States, I am afraid.

[Consultant32452]

The root problem I think is that the US has too few vacation days. This resulted in many people abusing sick day policies by taking sick days off for things that really should be "vacation" days. But management fought the symptom, not the cause, by just pooling vacation and sick days.