Anyone else hate missing work owing to illness?
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Today is the first time I'm missing work owing to illness in a long while.
I've had an on/off cold for the last couple of weeks, living on regular Lemsip (well the Tesco equivalent as I'm tight). However this morning I felt properly terrible, 8/10 severity upper abdo pain and vomiting like a vomiting thing. Crazy sweating too! Bad times. I've not felt that bad in a long time. Had to call work and tell them I couldn't come in today and almost certainly tomorrow.
Pain is better after the vomiting but I still feel absolutely shocking.
I do find there is a certain proportion of people who miss work at the drop of a hat (OMG sore throat for 2 days!!!) but it's certainly a balance. There's no point showing up if you're genuinely unwell as it's unlikely you will be very productive and I suspect you wouldn't be very popular if you infect everyone else.
Particular point of annoyance - it's the work Christmas do this evening. Had been looking forward to it. Oh well, there's always next year.
I've had an on/off cold for the last couple of weeks, living on regular Lemsip (well the Tesco equivalent as I'm tight). However this morning I felt properly terrible, 8/10 severity upper abdo pain and vomiting like a vomiting thing. Crazy sweating too! Bad times. I've not felt that bad in a long time. Had to call work and tell them I couldn't come in today and almost certainly tomorrow.
Pain is better after the vomiting but I still feel absolutely shocking.
I do find there is a certain proportion of people who miss work at the drop of a hat (OMG sore throat for 2 days!!!) but it's certainly a balance. There's no point showing up if you're genuinely unwell as it's unlikely you will be very productive and I suspect you wouldn't be very popular if you infect everyone else.
Particular point of annoyance - it's the work Christmas do this evening. Had been looking forward to it. Oh well, there's always next year.
Yep, I certainly do.
What I hate more is when a colleague turns up with a bright red, streaming nose and hacking cough and proceeds to infect the rest of the office.
There's a balance to be struck. If you have a bit of a sniffle you can probably work. If you have Spanish 'flu you should probably be in your house.
What I hate more is when a colleague turns up with a bright red, streaming nose and hacking cough and proceeds to infect the rest of the office.
There's a balance to be struck. If you have a bit of a sniffle you can probably work. If you have Spanish 'flu you should probably be in your house.
Sick days are for being properly poorly. Coughs/colds/hangovers etc... is what working from home if for. I can sit being/feeling unpleasant all on my own without the rest of the office having to put up with it, and without passing it on to them all.
I just wish everyone else were so considerate, but there seems to be some sort of perceived kudos for coming into the office at deaths door. There isn't. We don't think you're dedicated. We don't think you're tough. We just think "Oh great, I'll have that bug next week then. Thanks."
I just wish everyone else were so considerate, but there seems to be some sort of perceived kudos for coming into the office at deaths door. There isn't. We don't think you're dedicated. We don't think you're tough. We just think "Oh great, I'll have that bug next week then. Thanks."
HarryFlatters said:
SlidingSideways said:
hangovers
In my last job i did my best to go in even if i was ruff as a bears bottom, just try and struggle on. They looked after me and appreciated what i did.
These days im quite happy to stay off work but only when i really need to. They certainly dont give a feck about me so i dont about them. The work can wait.
These days im quite happy to stay off work but only when i really need to. They certainly dont give a feck about me so i dont about them. The work can wait.
I detest it, unfortunately due to an ongoing knee condition I have to have a couple of days off here and there every few months as I have to periodically have cortisone injections, tomorrow afternoon being one of them.
I only ever phone in sick if I genuinely cannot physically be there usually owing to the complete rest nedded after the injection.
Other people are off all of the time with sniffles etc, that IMO is not on!
I only ever phone in sick if I genuinely cannot physically be there usually owing to the complete rest nedded after the injection.
Other people are off all of the time with sniffles etc, that IMO is not on!
I find a lot of people that come in when they are really ill generally do naff all when they are in. They are actually bad for the company and just using it for their own personal gain/presenteeism/bragging on online forums or whatever.
I don't like take days off work because I don't get paid. I will if I need to though.
I don't like take days off work because I don't get paid. I will if I need to though.
i don't hate missing work for any reason, but it annoys me that people always assume it's a skive. i am known for being honest - admitting to sleeping in on occasion, will work from home if i cba'd going in etc. - but still this persists.
i worked almost 4 months straight over summer with only 2 days off the job. have only taken 6 days leave total and will likely have to surrender some leave days at the end of the year. yet people piss and moan as i took 2 days off for illness. says more about those who point the finger really.
i worked almost 4 months straight over summer with only 2 days off the job. have only taken 6 days leave total and will likely have to surrender some leave days at the end of the year. yet people piss and moan as i took 2 days off for illness. says more about those who point the finger really.
Like lots of people I have a chest condition that means, whenever I catch a cold, I'll probably get a 'secondary' lung infection to follow and, if I'm really unlucky, full blown pneumonia. I think that the people who drag themselves in are a menace and I regularly send employees home.
I’m quite lucky; I just don’t really get sick. In 10 years of working I’ve had 2 weeks off, 3 years ago, for my leg in a cast and that’s it. Not needed any time off due to being ill in the traditional sense.
I sometime think I single handily keep my teams sickness average up on my own; some of the “illnesses” people phone in for are beyond a joke. Think it goes back to being a kid, unless I was pretty much dead I was going to school!
I sometime think I single handily keep my teams sickness average up on my own; some of the “illnesses” people phone in for are beyond a joke. Think it goes back to being a kid, unless I was pretty much dead I was going to school!
I'm a nurse and when I worked on a respiratory medicine / pulmonary transplant unit our sickness rate was unbelievable - probably about 12 - 15%.
Typical public sector I can hear the PH massive already sharpening their goatees and aiming their cans of redbull.
However, my colleagues ad I used to get some pretty weird and wonderful bugs coughed or spat onto us, we inhaled more sputum, snot and general nastiness than I care to think of. Sometimes we became ill from this - now if we had come into work we could have killed some of the immuno-suppressed patients - so it was a disciplinary offence to come in when we thought we were unwell. There was also no way we could work from home, so we were off, usually for 1 - 2 weeks at a time.
I'm not sure when (I've left this specialty), but it's now all about performance management and staff being afraid to be off sick - I just wonder have we gone a little too far?
SD.
Typical public sector I can hear the PH massive already sharpening their goatees and aiming their cans of redbull.
However, my colleagues ad I used to get some pretty weird and wonderful bugs coughed or spat onto us, we inhaled more sputum, snot and general nastiness than I care to think of. Sometimes we became ill from this - now if we had come into work we could have killed some of the immuno-suppressed patients - so it was a disciplinary offence to come in when we thought we were unwell. There was also no way we could work from home, so we were off, usually for 1 - 2 weeks at a time.
I'm not sure when (I've left this specialty), but it's now all about performance management and staff being afraid to be off sick - I just wonder have we gone a little too far?
SD.
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