Mine is - DO NOT go to the building you work at. Like if you’re a retail worker, it is not wise to go to the store you work at or the restaurant. Because they see you come in shopping for whatever reason, they’ll possibly be on your ass about you being able to come in and shop but not work that day.
When setting an auto-reply out of office message, don’t forget to configure it to only reply to internal email senders, else you’ll be sharing some pretty juicy info (names and contact details) to people outside your organization.
This depends heavily on your role. My vacation responder is exclusively for external people, the internal ones can see my slack status and know who to contact if i’m out of pocket, but randos outside my org who need something need directed to a person who can field whatever the email is about.
Or don’t add names or details into the auto-reply. I just use “fyi hey I might reply with a longer delay than usual”
When I was a kid my moms rule was no video games on sick days. When I’m not feeling well and I take a sick day I don’t play games. I may watch movies or otherwise have screen time but I actually feel like not engaging with gaming makes me more restful and helps me get better faster.
That rule was designed to discourage you from faking it.
Turning off teams messages on my phone.
Making sure to opt out of all meetings during that time so no one expects me.
If my vacation spans multiple days, my only rule for how I should use my free time is to not just sit in front of the TV all day. Do some chores, go to some cool place, work on a personal project, go on a long hike, whatever. Usually I have plans anyways when I take a long vacation.
Uhh am I misinterpreting what “a day off” means? If I take a day off the I so whatever I please. Why would my employer care? When I worked at the store I’d still visit the store on my off days. And at my current work I’d absolutely share it whenever I did something nice on my day off. Or do you mean sick leave or something?
Agree. Context from OP suggests it’s a sick day, but day off = paid holiday, surely?
If it’s a sick day, by god do not touch ANY of your social media. Your boss (or worse, the office/shop/site brown-noser) will check.
If it’s a sick day I definitely check my social.media and will even check work-teams every few hours.
I will talk to my boss or my boss-boss on teams during a sick day.
Union.
Don’t tell any boss specifics of what you’re doing. If you have to tell anyone only tell close coworkers that won’t blab to others.
Look at the millionaire that has time off
That would depend whether you took a day off sick or just… a day off. If it’s a day off then you can spend it however you like, but I agree it can cause awkward questions if you are off sick but are seen.
I don’t think there really are rules like that, just do as you wish. I bet there is a good reason for you to have the day off anyway.