At my work we are luckily alotted paid sick hours that you can use if you are sick and have to call in. I was sick a lot recently just a really nasty chest cold that ate up a lot of it and also an allergic reaction to something I couldn’t identify that took a couple days to recover from. We get so many hours and they get replenished every couple of months or so. Well since I was close to being out of sick time my boss called me into the office to talk about that (even though the hours get replenished). I was threatened with termination if I use too much sick time even though those hours are given to us as paid hours for us to use in that situation. I literally explained that to him and then he realized how idiotic it was to fire me for using time that was given to me and softened a little. Recently I was super sick again with food poisoning but after that incident I didn’t call in and just spent like half my day in the bathroom puking instead.