Maybe this is because 100% of my days are sick days, but, five days’ annual sick (OR carer’s - don’t get sick, carers!) leave seems ... impossibly low?

Is it? Or do you people really only need a handful of days off per year

Even when I was working part-to-fulltime I needed like five sick days per *month* ... Again, that was probably because even then I was very ill and didn’t realise it

Tell me, healthy bods, tell me of your lives. Has the sick life really skewed my perspective so much

Thank you to everyone who has replied to this thread - I’ve learned a lot! Now to sleep, perchance to dream of better working conditions for all x