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Post by Angel! on Sept 15, 2014 15:26:20 GMT -5
I go to work sick unless I feel so bad that there is no way I could get any work done. I do this because with 3 young kids I can't afford to waste my sick time on me having the sniffles.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Sept 15, 2014 15:38:25 GMT -5
I just had a thought...are those of us on this thread that will go places sick the same people that will recline airplane seats Are we just perpetually rude people?
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Post by Angel! on Sept 15, 2014 15:39:58 GMT -5
I just had a thought...are those of us on this thread that will go places sick the same people that will recline airplane seats Are we just perpetually rude people? Yes. Or perhaps we have a different definition of rude. I don't find it rude when others come to work sick as long as they don't cough on me. So why should I feel rude if I come to work sick?
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Sept 15, 2014 15:43:00 GMT -5
I just had a thought...are those of us on this thread that will go places sick the same people that will recline airplane seats Are we just perpetually rude people? Well......may be not ALL "we", just some of "we"
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Post by Miss Tequila on Sept 15, 2014 16:19:41 GMT -5
I just had a thought...are those of us on this thread that will go places sick the same people that will recline airplane seats Are we just perpetually rude people? Yes. Or perhaps we have a different definition of rude. I don't find it rude when others come to work sick as long as they don't cough on me. So why should I feel rude if I come to work sick? Umm...I was just kidding! I'm a seat recliner and a "come to work sick"
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Post by Miss Tequila on Sept 15, 2014 16:20:35 GMT -5
I just had a thought...are those of us on this thread that will go places sick the same people that will recline airplane seats Are we just perpetually rude people? Well......may be not ALL "we", just some of "we" Aww, thanks...lena doesn't think I'm rude
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Post by Angel! on Sept 15, 2014 16:21:45 GMT -5
Yes. Or perhaps we have a different definition of rude. I don't find it rude when others come to work sick as long as they don't cough on me. So why should I feel rude if I come to work sick? Umm...I was just kidding! I'm a seat recliner and a "come to work sick" I know it was a joke. Perhaps I should have followed my "yes" with a . But, it also seemed to bring up a legitimate point. Others view us as rude merely because they have different standards of what is rude.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Sept 15, 2014 16:30:07 GMT -5
Well......may be not ALL "we", just some of "we" Aww, thanks...lena doesn't think I'm rude Yeahhhh.....that's exactly where I was going with that.....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2014 17:20:13 GMT -5
I came to work with pneumonia but it was only after calling my sister the doctor and asking if I was putting my coworkers in danger of catching it. Her jargon-free reply: "only if you have sex with them." Another time I ignored earaches that were accompanying a cold I couldn't shake and ended up with a mess that ruptured my ear drum. It was actually painless when that happened and the release of pressure meant that the pain was a lot less, but still... I saw a doctor in the AM and went back to work with a high-powered antibiotic.
In both cases, I was a key person involved in getting the financials out at quarter- and year-end and my absence would have been noticed. I still ended up getting downsized a few years later. I am SO glad I'm out of the corporate BS.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2014 17:26:52 GMT -5
Im here. Waiting outside in a mob. If I started hacking and snorting do you think I could clear a path to the front?
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Post by Angel! on Sept 15, 2014 17:27:42 GMT -5
Im here. Waiting outside in a mob. If I started hacking and snorting do you think I could clear a path to the front? Try it. I've often wondered if that would work.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Sept 15, 2014 18:56:26 GMT -5
Yeah at the public firm where I worked a guy called in sick one day during tax season. You would have thought the world ended. We weren't on site or anything. All I heard for days was he wouldn't have got sick if he wasn't outside skateboarding on his day off. I was totally jealous of him when he skipped out without a two week notice in mid March. This has been my problem. I only work during tax season and the world has come to an end if I am sick. In my evaluation for last tax season, I was written up for taking off the day we put my mother in to hospice care. I could not believe the coldness of that. Did they really think I wasn't going to be there for that? I also don't get paid if I don't work, so I will go if at all possible. Have to be puking to stay home. I still wonder what would have happened if she had passed during tax season. She told me she wouldn't die until tax season ended and she didn't. I don't plan on missing any days this year. I even got a hotel due to snow/ice last year 3 times and I will do that again before missing work.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Sept 15, 2014 20:02:15 GMT -5
Aww, thanks...lena doesn't think I'm rude Yeahhhh.....that's exactly where I was going with that..... Lol
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Sept 15, 2014 20:18:35 GMT -5
Yeah at the public firm where I worked a guy called in sick one day during tax season. You would have thought the world ended. We weren't on site or anything. All I heard for days was he wouldn't have got sick if he wasn't outside skateboarding on his day off. I was totally jealous of him when he skipped out without a two week notice in mid March. This has been my problem. I only work during tax season and the world has come to an end if I am sick. In my evaluation for last tax season, I was written up for taking off the day we put my mother in to hospice care. I could not believe the coldness of that. Did they really think I wasn't going to be there for that? I also don't get paid if I don't work, so I will go if at all possible. Have to be puking to stay home. I still wonder what would have happened if she had passed during tax season. She told me she wouldn't die until tax season ended and she didn't. I don't plan on missing any days this year. I even got a hotel due to snow/ice last year 3 times and I will do that again before missing work. That's awful, TheOtherMe. I remember being told to report for work one day after my mother died. I quit three months later. They were bastards ( nursing home office ). I was glad when I left .
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2014 21:06:42 GMT -5
I went. She was awesome. It was a sardine can in there though. No germ buffer zone. We were stuffed into the aisles sitting when they told us there absolutely had to be some kind of break and so we just smushed closer. Sweet and compelling speaker though. Great stories.
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Post by Formerly SK on Sept 15, 2014 23:49:45 GMT -5
I work in the health room of an elementary school. My office is a petri dish and I touch a dozen sick kids a day. Believe me, my germs won't make it any worse.
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Post by raeoflyte on Sept 16, 2014 7:27:26 GMT -5
I always go into work. The 2 times in the last year that I could barely get off the couch to take care of my kids thankfully happened on a Saturday.
Dgm is 97 and lives in an assisted living facility. I used to agonize over whether to go if anyone had a cold for fear of passing on anything to her, but after last winter I went with the facilities official policy and only stayed away if one of us had vomiting/diarrhea or a fever over 101. I figure at this stage in her life its the quality that matters and seeing the great grandkids makes her happier than anything else. And it's not like the employees there can afford to call out sick for every sniffle.
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Post by teen persuasion on Sept 16, 2014 8:43:09 GMT -5
Other than the common cold, I don't get sick much at all. I don't get sick days, so don't get paid if I don't go in. I also work alone 3 days a week, so no one else is there if I don't go in. The other two days, Wednesdays are often some sort of meeting at Central, so one of us is alone until the other returns anyway (past two weeks have been meetings for me, and previous ones were my boss), and Thursdays are the days I have programs, so another person is needed to cover the desk. In other words, I can't take off on short notice without cancelling something scheduled, or calling in a co-worker to cover for me.
Lately we'd been doing the covering for the boss - she's had surgery and hated being forced to stay home. I don't mind the extra hours, and learning more of the business side of things, but if I'm covering for her, who could cover for me, too?
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 16, 2014 8:48:36 GMT -5
According to DFs heart guy, the masks do very little but I think they make people stay away from you because they think YOU'RE the creepy one! He says clean surfaces and hand sanitizer is best. So get out those Clorox wipes!
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Post by mmhmm on Sept 16, 2014 9:51:40 GMT -5
According to DFs heart guy, the masks do very little but I think they make people stay away from you because they think YOU'RE the creepy one! He says clean surfaces and hand sanitizer is best. So get out those Clorox wipes! The masks provide protection for others if you're sneezing, or coughing. They're certainly not fool-proof, but they do help, IMO. Keeping things clean is a given, as far as I'm concerned. Hand sanitizers are great if used responsibly. If you're constantly cleaning your hands with hand sanitizers, however, you're contributing to the problem of micro-organisms becoming antibiotic resistant. Washing well with soap and water is just as effective. That's my take on it.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Sept 16, 2014 18:51:22 GMT -5
This has been my problem. I only work during tax season and the world has come to an end if I am sick. In my evaluation for last tax season, I was written up for taking off the day we put my mother in to hospice care. I could not believe the coldness of that. Did they really think I wasn't going to be there for that? I also don't get paid if I don't work, so I will go if at all possible. Have to be puking to stay home. I still wonder what would have happened if she had passed during tax season. She told me she wouldn't die until tax season ended and she didn't. I don't plan on missing any days this year. I even got a hotel due to snow/ice last year 3 times and I will do that again before missing work. That's awful, TheOtherMe. I remember being told to report for work one day after my mother died. I quit three months later. They were bastards ( nursing home office ). I was glad when I left . Thank you. Nothing was said when I asked the manager for the time off. It was in January. It wasn't like we were in to the big rush time yet. If it was going to come up on the evaluation, why didn't she tell me that it would cause a problem. I had also taken a couple of days right after first of year to be with my mom while she was hospitalized in critical condition. What really got me was that a full time employee and her sister-in-law (seasonal like me) both missed the last three weeks of tax season because the employee's mother and the other person's mother-in-law was in hospice and dying. I'd love to know if they got written up for that. Did you go to work one day after your mother died? I could not have done that. I was in no shape to even drive home and I was totally exhausted.
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