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Re:EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home by wincy on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:11AM (#25303065)
I have merged PTO but generally there’s an expectation that you plan in advance for vacation. So if I’m just having a shitty day even if there’s nothing physically wrong with me I’ll take PTO and say I’m “not feeling great”. Manager has never complained about it, always a “feel better”.

It’s not a lie but then the next day at standup I make sure to say how much better I’m feeling. I strongly suspect all my coworkers do this too.

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Re:EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home by MereInterest on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:57AM (#25303723)
This ends up being a bigger push, but I would say that it is perfectly reasonable to take a sick day for mental health reasons. Especially in knowledge-based jobs, there's no point in me trying to push for results that will need to be re-checked the next day when in a better spot.

There's also a lot of interplay between mental and physical health. For my part, it is pretty straight-forward, that if I have a more stressful day, I will get a migraine, and need to spend several hours in a dark room. If I feel the edge of a migraine coming on, it is better for me to pre-emptively cancel meetings and take a nap rather than waiting for it to be so bad that I am forced to.

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