When you stay home sick from work

[olduser]

i'm with fdg. when it's sick time it's stay at home miserable time. thankfully i haven't had an illness yet this year, and if i have had something, it's been mild. i hate being sick more than anything else. it's depressing and the minutes go by slowly, and i try to remind myself it is temporary but it doesn't work.

[tiny_dancer]

First, it depends how sick. If it's the flu or anything requiring antibiotics, I stay home. If it's just a cold, I go to work. I totally identify with not really knowing how sick I am. Even if I have the flu, my mind is still going a mile-a-minute, so I get restless. If I'm in bed resting, I feel semi-okay, so I'll try and get up and do things. That's when I am reminded that I really need to be in bed, because I'll become exhausted quickly.

I go home for headaches, too, because I just can't think with a headache. It takes me five times longer to do a simple task, and being at work makes my headache worse. It's really better to go home and get rid of the headache.

[strrrng]

I guess Si Egos knows how to pace themselves when they are working, if they need to throw up, they go straight to the bathroom.

So do I. But I suck at pacing myself.

Why do people feel guilty about lying? I don't get that. I mean, sure, I worry about getting caught, but...guilt?

Yeah. I don't feel a drop of remorse about lying, unless it involves people I care about and a significant enough situation. And guilt over missing work – let alone with a "legitimate" excuse? lol no. I feel more guilty going to work, or school, or whatever, than finding a clever way to circumvent the clusterfuck. But I don't get sick anymore, despite living unhealthily.

[Slacker]

I don't understand how you couldn't feel guilty about lying. It's wrong to deceive people. Now, if it's a "white lie" like, "Your new haircut looks fine", I don't feel guilty about that. But if I lied to stay home from work, I'd be so plagued by guilt the whole time I wouldn't be able to enjoy it anyway.

[strrrng]

Why should I feel guilt? Lying to stay home from work, is like hissing to a garden of snakes. With people in general, it's not that big of a deal; most of them are begging for it anyway.

[Creepy-Diana]

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[tereg]

I KNOW THAT IF I WERE TO LIE UNDER OATH THAT I WOULD NOT FEEL GUILTY AT ALL, I MEAN, IT'S THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM RIGHT? LOL

[Brilliand]

I see the possibility that sickness is not what a particular person should be using sick days for... i.e. Gilly, he gets around sickness fine but he has trouble with depression. Perhaps him staying home for "mental sickness" is suitable to the purpose of sick days? Though I would suggest telling the truth and arguing for it (or showing up and moping around if they need a demonstration ) rather than lying.

[FDG]

Well, around here you can't really call a sick day without being sick for real, because the doctor of the (statal) insurance company will show up to see how bad you feel and tell you how many days you're supposed to stay at home, then he tells the insurance company and they cover your pay. On the other hand, the doctory is "free" (yes, you pay taxes for it, but it's not much on a monthly basis - around 1.25% of the gross salary). You don't really have a limit of how many days you can stay at home while being sick, since you will receive a regular visit by the doctor so it's hard to fake it. Although if it's more than 6 consecutive months the salary will be cut in half.

[tereg]

HEY I KNOW, LET'S START AN ELABORATE PONZI SCHEME AND DECEIVE PEOPLE OUT OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. I KNOW I WOULDN'T FEEL GUILTY ABOUT THAT AT ALL.

[Jarno]

Although if it's more than 6 consecutive months the salary will be cut in half.

Touching people's money often makes them healthy again :-)

That's a good system.

[Sammy]

If I'm sick, that means I'm sick, so I don't feel guily at all. I'm more likely to be preoccupied about getting back healthy as soon as possible.

same here

[Slacker]

I never felt guilty about taking a sick day when I was sick.

Oh wait. I get these migraine headaches, and they're sometimes very frequent and bad, and I can't even get out of bed and sit upright, let alone work. There was a time when I was missing a LOT of work because of them. I didn't feel guilty really but I did feel bad for my co-workers that they were having to pick up my slack. And I kept working on finding some kind of solution for the headaches - going to doctors, trying different medications - so I could work regularly again.

[Sammy]

i couldn't let migraine headaches stop me ... just pop a painkiller

[Slacker]

i couldn't let migraine headaches stop me ... just pop a painkiller

The only painkillers that are even remotely effective for my headaches are strong narcotics, and then I wouldn't be able to drive to work.

AND it took trying a lot of strong narcotics before I found one that was at all effective.

[Sammy]

The only painkillers that are even remotely effective for my headaches are strong narcotics, and then I wouldn't be able to drive to work.

AND it took trying a lot of strong narcotics before I found one that was at all effective.

[inumbra]

Well, around here you can't really call a sick day without being sick for real, because the doctor of the (statal) insurance company will show up to see how bad you feel and tell you how many days you're supposed to stay at home, then he tells the insurance company and they cover your pay.

I would never call in sick if that happened every time... I would find a way to hide it.

[Gilly]

Why should I feel guilt? Lying to stay home from work, is like hissing to a garden of snakes.

[Gilly]

Agree. People are counting on you to be there, and you're making things harder on everyone else by skipping out. If you're actually sick, that's one thing, but just faking? Pretty crappy. Maybe those people have never worked somewhere it mattered whether they showed up or not?

I have, for most of my life since the age of 13. I only feel guilty if I'm working with people I actually like or care about; otherwise it means nothing to me. People outside my inner circle are nothing more than obstacles to be overcome or pests to be dealt with.

I don't understand how you couldn't feel guilty about lying. It's wrong to deceive people. Now, if it's a "white lie" like, "Your new haircut looks fine", I don't feel guilty about that. But if I lied to stay home from work, I'd be so plagued by guilt the whole time I wouldn't be able to enjoy it anyway.

I guess they programmed you well.

I don't lie to people who are close to me; I lie to people I don't care about to get away with shit, and to my parents to prevent them from finding out who I really am and feeling both immeasurable guilt for having "gone wrong" and desperate to try to "save" me from the life I want to live.

[tereg]

People outside my inner circle are nothing more than obstacles to be overcome or pests to be dealt with.

Just saying.

[Gilly]

Fair enough. Maybe I should read up on Tricky Dick...

[The Exception]

I haven't vomited since July. It went something like this: .

I had the stomach flu with vomiting last August and had to miss a day of work. It's the first day I've had to miss in two years. I didn't feel guilty at all about it. Its the responsible thing to do, who wants to see you vomit? Disgusting. Besides I felt physically weak and woozy and wasn't going to be productive anyway.

[jessica129]

Back when I could call in sick, I felt guilty for the first hour and then I forgot. I don't ever actually remember calling in because I was actually sick, though...hungover, a few times...but never because i had the flu or something. I never, ever get sick.

[olduser]

when people who aren't sick stay home from work sick for pleasure at my job it's grounds for some pretty serious mean muggin'.

[Trevor]

I had the stomach flu with vomiting last August and had to miss a day of work. It's the first day I've had to miss in two years. I didn't feel guilty at all about it. Its the responsible thing to do, who wants to see you vomit? Disgusting. Besides I felt physically weak and woozy and wasn't going to be productive anyway.

Oh, I see. I myself was drukn. Btw..your avatar rocks.

[jessica129]

when people who aren't sick stay home from work sick for pleasure at my job it's grounds for some pretty serious mean muggin'.

At my last job we got 25 leave days a year. You better believe i used them all and wasn't sick once. No idea why we had so many, it was a crappy company.

[strrrng]

I never felt guilty about taking a sick day when I was sick.

Oh wait. I get these migraine headaches, and they're sometimes very frequent and bad, and I can't even get out of bed and sit upright, let alone work. There was a time when I was missing a LOT of work because of them. I didn't feel guilty really but I did feel bad for my co-workers that they were having to pick up my slack. And I kept working on finding some kind of solution for the headaches - going to doctors, trying different medications - so I could work regularly again.

The beauties of social manipulation.