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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 28, 2025

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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My unused sick days get paid at the end of the year, which serves as incentive to never use them. Consider, one week of work with one paid sick day. If I take the sick day, I get paid 4 days of work and 1 day of sick. If I work all 5 days, I get 5 days of pay, plus the 1 sick day paid out.

They also don't care if I'm actually sick. The sick days are there for me to use, when I want to use them, and there are policies surrounding that. But nobody will ever ask me for a doctor's note.

Fair, if you get them paid out then it's a different story. I haven't had such a situation myself.