https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 10 May 2026 16:16:59 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645821 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:43:06 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2645821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>And what a dumb comment. Yeah, if you don't go tomorrow it WILL be an emergency. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645819 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:42:32 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2645819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd still say sick. We get 3 sick and 2 personal days per year and the personal ones don't roll over after a year so our HR person tends to say use the personal first though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645614 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 12:47:18 +0000 Mrs. J 2645614@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: if I were requesting ahead of time (not like I woke up sick), we had a planned sick absence category for doc visits etc. Although we had sick vs personal days, they let us use them all the same. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645611 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 12:43:39 +0000 jhd 2645611@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: as a teacher I always used sick leave if I was going to the doctor whether it was planned ahead or not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645605 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 12:39:14 +0000 Adira 2645605@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At my work, sick time is used for when you are sick or doctor's appointments. Anything related to being ill. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645547 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:54:17 +0000 nana87 2645547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: Definitely possible. I don't remember anything about schools being exempt in the SF law (I know small businesses were definitely exempt), and that law was the one being used as a model for other localities and states at least at first, but the specifics could for sure be different in different places. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645545 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:52:57 +0000 gilmoregirl 2645545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Contractually, our sick days are for anything medical or health related. So doctors appointments count. I'd be using a sick day in your case for sure. </p> <p>But then again, our contract is pretty clear on this so it's an easy choice for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645540 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:49:03 +0000 Anagram 2645540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: If it's anything like Mat leave, it appears that school districts are kind of allowed to do their own thing. In NJ, most workers are eligible for (unpaid) long family leave time for baby bonding, but school districts are somehow exempt. Most school districts still do it, but they don't have to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645538 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:47:34 +0000 nana87 2645538@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: ugh that is maddening! You're in NJ, right? I was curious after I posted about where the ordinances have been passed lately, and it looks like lots of individual cities in NJ are passing laws, so maybe it's just a matter of time? <a href="http://www.paidsickdays.org/campaigns/#.WBd1I5MrI0q" rel="nofollow">http://www.paidsickdays.org/campaigns/#.WBd1I5MrI0q</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645534 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:45:11 +0000 Anagram 2645534@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@808love: ours is all online now, so I can actually just post my assignments there and the students will complete it on their own. </p> <p>I'm just being weird--I guess because I was burned all those years ago. And because I've conditioned myself to not take time off unless it's an unavoidable emergency, since I've had a few years of mat leave, in which all my sick leave is used up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645532 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:43:40 +0000 Anagram 2645532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: We have a ton of different categories. I actually have a "family sick leave" category, but that can only be used for specific family illness, usually that require a hospital stay or something. So if my child has RSV and was in the hospital, I could use it.</p> <p>But RSV and home, we're not supposed to. It's maddening. Every school I've worked in is different, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645526 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:38:55 +0000 nana87 2645526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sick day for sure. </p> <p>Also, that's surprising that you can't use your sick leave for sick kids. I used to work in policy research and did some work on mandatory paid sick leave ordinances, and the advocacy campaigns around it definitely are meant to be used for caregiving purposes, ie to take time off for sick kids or elderly relatives. The first locality to require employers to provide a minimum of 7 days was San Francisco, which is the one I know the most about because it's the one we studied, but now it's spread to a bunch of difference places, and is spreading more and more. The proposed national legislation, the Healthy Families Act, def includes the explicit use of sick leave for caregiving </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645524 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:36:45 +0000 808love 2645524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: Taking a sick day is totally valid. At our school they do not like us to show up the day we are sick to hand in sub plans because you are not supposed to be on the premises. We are supposed to email it to a colleague. I have sent it via my husband and occasionally I just walk it in (not to the office but to my desk) super early. They also said something about kids and parents seeing you when you are supposed to be sick. I think they only told us that when we started the school and no one has said anything about it since. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645520 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:34:35 +0000 snowjewelz 2645520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sick, for sure! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645513 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:30:16 +0000 psw27 2645513@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sick day all the way. Plus it's really illegal for anyone to be prying into your personal medical history to be finding out if it is a planned medical appointment, an emergency medical appointment, etc. If someone doubts they veracity of your story, they can require a note but beyond that it is inappropriate to ask follow up questions, in my opinion. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645509 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:27:21 +0000 MamaG 2645509@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: Sick in both cases. We can use our sick days for our kids too. It's strange to me that you can't. But then again, I'm in a corporate environment not education. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645467 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:45:15 +0000 meadow 2645467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: I'd say sick day too.</p> <p>Planned sick days like you're describing....I leave my plans with a fellow teacher so administration can't second guess me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645458 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:37:48 +0000 Anagram 2645458@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>And follow up question--for future reference. If it's a planned medical procedure, but out of medical necessity.....sick day or "personal" day? </p> <p>added info: I get 10 sick days a year, but only 3 personal. Child sicknesses are supposed to come from personal days. Sick days are only for the employer. And I have 2 kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645454 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:35:45 +0000 Portboston 2645454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sick day. And yea what your principal did was illegal and not cool. Sick is sick. Whether it happens in the middle of the night suddenly or it's something long term. I highly doubt you'd tell a person with a chronic disease that they aren't really sick! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645450 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:26:53 +0000 yellowbird 2645450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sick day </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645446 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:21:48 +0000 Anagram 2645446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I am weird about this stuff because years ago in my 2nd year teacher (different state, different school), I got sick my second to last week of school. But not suddenly ill--I had an ongoing problem that suddenly just took a turn for the worse. Sort of like now. I hadn't taken *any* days off the entire years, so I still had all my sick days left. Same situation as now, I made my appointment for the next morning.</p> <p>I thought I was being responsible to make my plans for the sub and give them to the front office before leaving--but then the principal reamed me out and said sick days are for emergency sicknesses only--like you wake up throwing up in the middle of the night. And anything else had to be a personal day--which required 5 days advance notice. I said I didn't have 5 days advance notice and then she said I should just go to the ER at night then, instead of taking time off work.</p> <p>Later she got in trouble for that, because it's illegal apparently (she didn't just do that to me, she said that to several people in similar situations).</p> <p>But still, it always makes me second guess myself now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645443 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:17:57 +0000 Periwinkle 2645443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Definitely a sick day for a doctors appointment. I hope you feel better soon! UTIs are the worst :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645440 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:15:34 +0000 Caly 2645440@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sick day, no question. I hope you feel better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645438 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:11:59 +0000 looch 2645438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: I always get them now, even if they are not required. I technically don't need one until I am out for 5 days, but I like to have it documented. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645436 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:09:56 +0000 Bluebonnet 2645436@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Assuming you're staying home today because you aren't feeling well, I would count a Sick day for both days. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645435 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:08:32 +0000 Anagram 2645435@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: I may ask for one, but my work doesn't require a doctor's note until you take 3 consecutive days (I think),. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645429 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:04:34 +0000 looch 2645429@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would take a sick day, and I'd also get a doctor's note to prove that you were there. I don't take any chances and it doesn't take any extra time.</p> <p>Feel better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645427 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:04:01 +0000 Mamaof2 2645427@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: oh man that sounds awful! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645425 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:03:52 +0000 meadow 2645425@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: ugh that sounds awful!! Feel better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-work-differentiates-pto-into-personal-vs-sick#post-2645424 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:03:25 +0000 raspberries 2645424@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd do a half sick day and half vacation day. But if you can only take one or the other, I'd absolutely take a sick day, with no guilt allowed - you have an actual doctor's appointment, which makes it legitimate. </p>