I am sick as crap today but hesitated to call in sick..

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Does anyone else ever feel this way? I finally ended up calling in but I feel guilty cos it's a Monday (typically busy). I have a lot of sick hours to use but it'll be nagging at me all day :\
 
I'm sure your office (or wherever) would rather you stay home for a day than you come in and infect everyone, thereby resulting in a lot more lost hours.
 
The only way to get better is to make other people feel as bad, or worse, go for it and infect em ALL! muhahahahaha!!!
 
Cloudy said:
Does anyone else ever feel this way? I finally ended up calling in but I feel guilty cos it's a Monday (typically busy). I have a lot of sick hours to use but it'll be nagging at me all day :\

Sick hours? What's that?
 
ultron87 said:
I'm sure your office (or wherever) would rather you stay home for a day than you come in and infect everyone, thereby resulting in a lot more lost hours.

Thank you. I'd love to get this message across to several co-workers of mine think that unless you are physically unable to stand you must be at work. There are people in here in the dead of winter hacking up a lung putting other people at risk of infection.
 
I hate calling out I think I've called out once at my current job and have been here for about two years now. I've come in sick before not fun at all.
 
I hate calling in sick as well.

It's a nagging feeling that you should be there even if you're physically unable to. The only time I ever didn't feel guilty is when my father passed away and I needed a week off.
 
I'm a teacher and I was warned that I would get sick a lot in my first year (last year was my first year). No lie, I was sick for like 2 months straight.
 
I think management here is guided to make calling in terrible for the person who is calling in. Just the tone the supervisors put in their voice when you call in makes you feel like using your sick time is the worst thing ever. It doesnt help that if you call in more than once every 3 months, its considered excessive.

When I was hourly, I racked up around 320 hours of sick time, because I wouldnt call in sick when I was sick for fear of being reprimanded.
 
gamerecks said:
I think management here is guided to make calling in terrible for the person who is calling in. Just the tone the supervisors put in their voice when you call in makes you feel like using your sick time is the worst thing ever.

My manager is pretty cool but I know what you mean. Worst thing is when you have a bad cold and you're trying to sound normal so they don't think you're faking it :lol
 
Cloudy said:
My manager is pretty cool but I know what you mean. Worse thing is when you have a bad cold and you're trying to sound normal so they don't think you're faking it >_<
my boss is pretty understanding the last time I got sick was during the swine flu freak out and when I came to work I kept joking about having swine flu and got all sorts of nasty looks :lol
 
Yeah, I hate calling in sick because I'm afraid the boss will think I'm just lazy. But when I'm really sick (especially if it involves fever), I'd just go "Fuck it, I'm calling in sick and going back to sleep".
 
Typically this is strongarming on the part of the managers. A day or 2 of recuperating is much better than feeling terrible, not performing well, taking longer to get better, and getting others sick. As long as you're otherwise doing you job, you shouldn't even have to explain this, you're not lazy, unmotivated, or taking advantage, you're sick! Managers who do this to their employees really squeeze their employees' morale. Bad bad bad. Basically they have no leg to stand on, especially if you get a doctor's note.
 
If you're sick, then you can't help it. I fucking HATE when people show up to work sick. I don't want them coughing and getting me sick(which they do).
 
Cloudy said:
Does anyone else ever feel this way? I finally ended up calling in but I feel guilty cos it's a Monday (typically busy). I have a lot of sick hours to use but it'll be nagging at me all day :\

I used to feel guilty about it and didn't use my 2 years worth of sick days (one day i even broke the thermostat in my office because of my temperature), but then i found out that all my assholes coworkers were taking advantage of it. So fuck them.
 
I've been working for 13 years now and have never called in sick once. I'd feel pretty guilty about it I guess, my paw is like that (he's going for his 30th year now without a sick day). It'd take something truly debilitating for me to not go into work (broken arm / leg would do it I guess) but if I was very ill or had a high chance of taking the rest of the office out I'd be clever enough to work out that it would be better to stay home. I have a fairly high tolerance to cold / flu type sickness so I'm usually ok. I've had real flu a couple of times (cannot get out of bed flu, not runny nose flu) and been fortunate / unforunate enough for this to happen on my holiday time. Ill people taking sick days is fine with me : though not sure about folk that basically add sick days onto their holiday allowance for the year (i.e. I have 15 days holiday and 10 days sick, that makes 25 that I have left for the year).
 
If I went to work and made everyone else sick, it would be a huge disfavor to everyone that works there and to the company.
 
ultron87 said:
I'm sure your office (or wherever) would rather you stay home for a day than you come in and infect everyone, thereby resulting in a lot more lost hours.

You would think this, but more often than not, this isn't the case at all.
 
I've got a fever this morning and I think I was hallucinating earlier, but I'm at work. I've got a vacation in two days, so if I called out now, it would look like I'm just trying to get an early start.
 
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Freshmaker said:
Yep. Things keep spinning in with or without you, so it's kinda silly to feel guilty about this.
They do? Not in any kind of time sensitive environment. When I don't go to work, someone else ends up doing my work and their work.
 
I've had this discussion with a higher-up around here.

Basically, his feeling is this:

If coming to work will mean you have reduced productivity for more than one day, stay at home.

It's pretty simple - staying at home will allow you to recover quicker than working through being sick. When you're sick, your productivity WILL decrease, no matter what, and overall, if your productivity is lower for a week because you didn't call in sick but it would've been only zero for, say, 2 days, you're better off not being there for 2 days, recovering properly, then coming back to work in full force.

Remember, depending on the job, a low productivity employee is worse than someone who isn't there because the job they do is error-prone and can't be properly calculated by managers.

Of course, if you work in a call center or whatever, it's different, but in most office jobs it applies.
 
I hardly ever take days off sick (bruce willis unbreakable style) but when i do, i don't give a shit what is happening in the office.


Its sort of my tradition to watch LOTR when off sick, so i'm too engrossed in hobbit shennanigans to care about the printer jamming.
 
Wow, you guys must work in a crappy place or have some serious work ethic. I call in sick almost once every two or three months. I never get sick but having a day away from the office every now and then keep me from mass murdering everyone at the office.

You have earned those days so feel free to use them whenever you want.
 
DarK SouL said:
Wow, you guys must work in a crappy place or have some serious work ethic. I call in sick almost once every two or three months. I never get sick but having a day away from the office every now and then keep me from mass murdering everyone at the office.

You have earned those days so feel free to use them whenever you want.

Earned days to be home sick when youre not sick? What is this sick days everybody are talking about, im not from the US and doesnt understand shit.
 
I never feel guilty about calling in sick even if I'm not sick. They give me the sick days so I'm sure as hell going to use them.
 
Yeah,

I've never called in sick. I just can't do it. I've promised myself that if I'm ever physically throwing up then, yes, I'll have to call in sick but that has never happened. And yeah, it is associated with my strong work ethic...that is probably how the OP feels.
 
I don't get sick days. If they don't want me there, then they damn well better pay me to stay home. I call in sick only if the need to rest really outweighs my need to get paid for the day.
 
sonarrat said:
I don't get sick days. If they don't want me there, then they damn well better pay me to stay home. I call in sick only if the need to rest really outweighs my need to get paid for the day.
Ditto. I'm at work sick right now...
 
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