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uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

wow, i'm a dedicated yet sick dude. anyone else have a record as untarnished as mine?

i had an idiot coworker who'd call in sick for hangovers all the time. i always thought that was a terrible way to treat an employer.

Doogie · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Location: Hwaseong City

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

Tish-tosh.

Korean teachers DO take days off .I took a co-teacher drinking and he had too much,felt too frail the next day and went home at lunchtime.

Lets not forget how they nap at school and the long summer and winter holiday which gives ample time to build themselves up.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

16 months on this job and never taken a sick day. At my old hogwan the other foreigers and I started taking turns calling in sick on the busiest day of the week.

When I was in Canada this summer my sister took a sick day because her dog was sick. Koreans have a hard time believing that one.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I don't think I've ever taken a sick day, in 11 years.

Added after thinking more: I did take a couple of hours off several times after surgery to go in for 'after service'. So my record isn't spotless.

Sleepy in Seoul · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject:

Ya-ta Boy beats me - I've had one sick day in 4 years, but I had pneumonia so I only felt a little guilty.

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

Took one last week for a cold.

That leaves me with 13 left before May. I suspect I will be sick on Fridays or mondays.

Zyzyfer · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject:

I haven't taken a sick day in like 5 years here, though I did try to take one and they wouldn't let me. Had drank too much the night before anyway.

I do take days off occasionally using my vacation days, though. I just don't consider headaches or a slight sniffle or a runny nose as grounds to stay home.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:25 pm Post subject:

My father never took a sick day in 41 years of work.

I decided not to try and top that.

3 days in 4 years here.

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

I don't think I have taken a sick day in the last 4 years either.

ilovebdt

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I've never taken a sick day in my life (well, not from work -- I used it as an excuse not to go to school once or twice when I was younger).

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

14 sick days allowed in a year. It seems silly not to take at least half of them.

Lets see..my full total is 33 sick days in 4 years. Give or take a day.

PimpofKorea · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:16 am Post subject:

If my herpes starts acting up....well I think Mr. Kim will have to deal without whitey ford for one day. Good God could you imagine the children seeing the swelled up lips coupled with the already gargantuan trademark white man's nose. That image would follow them for the rest of their days.

SarcasmKills · Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

Never took a sick day until I blew out my knee and needed to spend time in the hospital..

I think I got that from my father as well.. the man NEVER misses work.