Sick time is NOT an entitlement, it's an insurance policy to cover you if you get sick. Where in the world do you folks come up with the logic that the company owes you money for this when you retire, leave or get furloughed?
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I don't think, and maybe I am wrong, that most people think it's an entitlement. Since Wolf cracked the whip the departments I have worked in anyway, taking sick time just about requires legitimate FMLA paperwork to keep from getting fired. The company has made taking one sick day a thing of the past, people now take at least three consecutive days off, and some much more time than that. I know a guy who has 38 years, he told me flat out that since they took his vacation in the give backs, he will make it up in sick time, and believe me he does just that. Between cracking the whip on sick time and then the give backs, well you figure it out. The company made the system and they didn’t change it with these give backs other than giving us less earned sick days each year, and people being people will use the system to their full advantage, that is fact. People can cry foul all day long about how other people take their sick time, but as long as it is all on the up and up, that is the way it is. The people looking to see what other people are doing with their personal sick time are dead wrong and should stick to their own business. Worrying about other people abusing the sick time system with everything going on is absurd to say the least. People are getting fired for abusing it, and if they are not it’s no ones business anyway, it’s between the company and that individual only. This whole thing is so absurd that the IAM had to take the company to court over it. This whole thread was started over envy of what another person gets which doesn’t seem right to some individuals, in a system that permits it. But then again, we can also talk about the 1--800 rat on your co-worker thing the company started years ago which went over like a lead balloon.