retards?? haha whoa .... sounds like there's a real good chance that you might be the 'tard my man....you've given 24 plus years to the man, punching a clock, asking to go take a leak and a lunch break, and they're retards for wanting to use "free days" off when given?..... ##)##) not sure what you're accumulating your 173 days for there bossman lmao....
not so sure what you're all so proud of.....does calling in once a year show a sign of your awesome work ethic? speak to the kind of hard working man you are?..... aside from the self employed business owner ...you go to college, or learn a trade, prostitute yourself by trading at least 40 valuable hours a week to the man? all the while we know our tickets can be pulled at any moment, but one must eat right?
While I'm glad to run my own business, I have much more respect for the individual who's maxing out his vacation and sick days. When I was 18, and busting my ass at an office job, for the work I put in, I was at a rate of 1 day every month or two at the worst. Issues only came up when those days were steadily mondays and fridays.
I have been working the same job for 24 years. I have 173 sick days saved up.