This Actually Happened When I was at MBNA/Bank of America...

The, uh, scheduling part, not the disgusting, sick dude. We had twenty personal days during the year (instead of ten vacation and ten sick), and they pretty much wanted us to schedule 75% of them in January. We were REALLY supposed to know when we were going to be sick, and if you got called in sick without scheduling it in advance, it was called an "incident" and if you did it to often, you were put on report. YAY BIG BUSINESS!!! :(