i made that company a fortune, and was within my own budgets to take days off here and there....which i did....i just also wanted all my sick days too.
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Justify it to yourself all you like, but you know full well that you had no entitlement to those spurious sick days. You stole that pay from your employer. You're a thief, as plain and simple as if you'd taken a few hundred quid out of their tills.