do you go to work sick? ***poll***

[rudeguy]

if you are feeling under the weather, do you try and make it in, or just call in?

 

[skace]

Go in unless I am running a fever / coughing up a storm. If you go in to work coughing, you will most likely get others sick and hurt the business.

 

[Chaotic42]

Yes, unless I'm incapacitated. My PD has been coming in with a 102F fever, bad cough, and double ear infection.

 

[J Heartless Slick]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Yes, unless I'm incapacitated. My PD has been coming in with a 102F fever, bad cough, and double ear infection.

I hope your PD does not spread what he\she has to anyone else. Isn't working while sick one of the reasons SARS spread so quickly among health care workers?

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: skace
Go in unless I am running a fever / coughing up a storm. If you go in to work coughing, you will most likely get others sick and hurt the business.

Yeah I am likewise....A couple of days this week I have had rreally bad hayfever....making me very uncomfortable...unhappy and trouble breathing but I can still continue on and nobody else is at risk.

Our company gives company healthcare on the basis that if we are off ill...it lowers productivity and rightly so.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: J Heartless Slick

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Yes, unless I'm incapacitated. My PD has been coming in with a 102F fever, bad cough, and double ear infection.

I hope your PD does not spread what he\she has to anyone else. Isn't working while sick one of the reasons SARS spread so quickly among health care workers?

I don't know if it's contagious since it's an inner ear infection, and I'm also not sure if you're right about the SARS thing.

Sorry.

I've worked sick a lot. I had pneumonia and strep throat and I went to work making food at a national fast "food" chain. They wouldn't let me off.

 

[Luden]

I usually comes in sick, shows dedication..

 

[rudeguy]

my fever isnt too bad...I just feel drained. I started getting sick about a week ago and I have only had one day off since. Every year I end up with bronchitis, and I can feel it starting to develope right now...I just want to lay in bed for about 3 years

 

[bunker]

If I can walk I go in.

Sick days are for golfing .

 

[Chaotic42]

Meh, I know how you feel. If it's that bad, call in sick and take some Vitamin C and drink a *lot* of water.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: bunker
If I can walk I go in.

Sick days are for golfing .

bwahahaa...I like your attitude

unfortunately my sick days arent paid. I work off of straight commission, so if I call off I dont get paid.

 

[Confused]

I make the effort to go in, then if i'm feeling particularly bad, say "look, i can't work like this, i think it's best if i go home".

It shows them that you've made the effort, and if you are truely ill, then they will be able to see it, and get respect from them that you at least tried to come in and do the job! I did exactly this last year, i was at a festival at the weekend, felt real bad on the Tuesday i was going into work (was a long weekend, so had monday off work anyway), and was back home and in bed for 3 days by Tuesday lunchtime, and got paid for it too, cos i made the effort to go in


Confused

 

[J Heartless Slick]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: J Heartless Slick

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Yes, unless I'm incapacitated. My PD has been coming in with a 102F fever, bad cough, and double ear infection.

I hope your PD does not spread what he\she has to anyone else. Isn't working while sick one of the reasons SARS spread so quickly among health care workers?

I don't know if it's contagious since it's an inner ear infection, and I'm also not sure if you're right about the SARS thing.

Sorry.

I've worked sick a lot. I had pneumonia and strep throat and I went to work making food at a national fast "food" chain. They wouldn't let me off.

:Q

Where do you work?

I heard the thing about SARS on NPR.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Confused
I make the effort to go in, then if i'm feeling particularly bad, say "look, i can't work like this, i think it's best if i go home".

It shows them that you've made the effort, and if you are truely ill, then they will be able to see it, and get respect from them that you at least tried to come in and do the job! I did exactly this last year, i was at a festival at the weekend, felt real bad on the Tuesday i was going into work (was a long weekend, so had monday off work anyway), and was back home and in bed for 3 days by Tuesday lunchtime, and got paid for it too, cos i made the effort to go in


Confused

thats pretty much why I have been going in the past few days...just to show the boss that I really am sicker than heck. It really sucks working 12 hour days feeling like crap. The guys were laughing at me because I fell asleep on a pile of air conditioners yesterday.

 

[Whitecloak]

I do

 

[Schadenfroh]

i would go to school if im very ill. then i would go into the computer lab and lick everyones keyboard

 

[dabuddha]

I'm sick right now and I came in at 6am

I hate taking days off. I dunno why. I do love having them off but hate using up my leave (annual or sick )

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: J Heartless Slick


:Q

Where do you work?

I heard the thing about SARS on NPR.

Then: McDonalds
Now: Local radio station

 

[eakers]

unless i'm on my deathbed

my bf and his roommates however.. i really don't understand how those kids stay employed.

 

[B00ne]

Usually I go but then when my Coworkers or boss hear me caughing they usually send me home a tad angry that I came in in a condition like that - risking to infect the department

 

[J Heartless Slick]

It has been my experience that if I am not feel well I recover faster if I stay home and rest.

 

[Ausm]

I come in sick of work all the time...


Ausm

 

[Regs]

I hardly ever get sick. So when I'm sick I know I can call out because I know those will be the only sick days of the year.


Your company actually wants you to call out sick. (Except for those really important days) .
They don't want you to spread a virus that could make half their work force sick. Bad for business eh?

 

[ClueLis]

Ok, so I'm a student, but this sorta fits the bill still.

Up until a couple years ago, I would miss a lot of school due to the fact that I had a lot of medical issues.
Now that I'm healthy, though, I've made an effort to come in as much as possible, regardless of my health (and heck, anything I get now is nothing compared to what I had before). The only day of school I've missed in the past two years was due to congunctivitis, and that's because no one would let me come in.

 

[Electric Amish]

Depends on your definition of sick....

Cough- I'll go
sore throat- I'll go

Fever- stay home
Vomit/diarhea- stay home

amish