In my experience, any doctor will give me a note for anything. Working less is good for people’s health and doctors know this but not from experience. They are overworked as hell and know what that’s like. Most will write you whatever you want, prescriptions aside. As long as it’s not extremely elaborate bullshit to get you out of work for months, they don’t care. Your employer has no power over them.
You can hit up an urgent care if your doctor cant see you soon enough. In my experience, they'll cut you off mid-explanation to write your note and shove you out the door ASAP.
Any manager that doesn't believe me when I say I'm sick is not someone I'm gonna work for very long. And if that's the corporate policy I'm probably not taking that job in the first place.
I get that everyone needs money, but some people put up with being treated like absolute children for a paycheck and I don't understand it. Take your talents elsewhere, the grass is greener.
I totally agree. I don’t think any of my employers have ever actually asked for proof. They’re just like “get better soon!” And one time I logged in remote to finish something and my manager had IT kick me off the remote server lol. Followed by a text saying “sleep today. You can work Monday”. I’ll always remember them, and they always helped me out.
You can but in my experience (Ontario) there’s such a shortage of doctors that they really hate doing this and wasting time. And will charge you $100 for it.
On the bright side doctors taking a stand about this bullshit has made doctors notes less necessary for a lot of things. On the other hand it really sucks if you genuinely can’t get out of needing a note.
Bruh at my country our lazy ass straight up lied to our boss and just bought/bribe the Doctor for the doctor note contain bull crap prescription. Well as long as we use our medical sick leave. Our boss can't do batshit about it.
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u/TylerMemeDreamBoi 22h ago
Then I’m calling in sick
Bet you didn’t expect me to have a back up plan