5 reasons you SHOULD call in sick

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/healt...n-sick-518206/

Whoever wrote this is a bit out of touch. I am guilty of coming into work on several occasions for several reasons on this list (sniffles, sinus issues and mild back pain).

Unlike others, I don't have the luxury of paid time off so if I take a day off, I take a hit on my check.

Also, the article doesn't address at all that some employers might take issue with an employee who calls in sick due to "the sniffles".

[Becks]

That's all well and good for office settings, but retail? Yeah, right.

I've lost count of the number of times I've gone to work with back spasms. If *I* call out, I don't just inconvenience my department, I inconvenience at least one or two others.

[Elspeth]

Bloody Hell what fanasty world do they live in?

I work in an office and I can't do that. I would never come in if I stayed home with back pain and the sniffles. I have to be dead not to come in.

Plus there is the whole I do jobs that no one else is trained for and if I don't come in they don't get done.

[Amina516]

The only one i really would agree with is the Pink eye. I had it last summer..and lets just say, I looked like the guy from the movie "Mask" *the one with Cher, not Jim Carrey*. Maybe the back pain, if it were bad enough and depending on the job. Otherwise, im there.

[JLRodgers]

I heard a story somewhere (not even sure if true, I trust the person who said it, but do not know the people in question) that a workplace that deals with children and food told an employee with swine flu to basically "suck it up" and "stop being a wimp" because it was no excuse to miss work.


Although really, if a person is sick and not feeling well -- they shouldn't be at work. Just the companies make that impossible.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

What the Hell was this dude smoking and did he bring enough to share?

Coming back down to that place called Reality, unless that farkhead is willing to pay my bills that don't get paid because I've had to take a day off sick, then I have TO GO IN.

I don't get sick days, my job doesn't get done (I basically run my own department as in stocking/ordering/paperwork/straightening and primping and checking dates) and I'm not a wimp.

Unlike some co-irkers who call out with the damn sniffles, just like last Monday and I got stuck (again) doing her job and couldn't make a good dent into getting part of my freight worked out to the shelves (this is the same co-irker who is supposed to be allergic to everything and even twice called out because of hemrhoids last year.)

Unless I'm running a fever, having either vomiting, diarrhea (or both) I have shoulder/arm pain with tingling pins and needles and severe muscle spasms or my back locks up and I can't stand halfway up to walk, I'm at work. Period.

Work with sniffles? Child's play. Work while so tired, I could have fallen out in the floor and went to sleep? Done that too. Work with a bad, hacking chest-shaking cough? Lost count fifteen years ago. Work while having a MIGRAINE? Oh yeah, done that too (keep migraine pills on hand in my purse at all times.)

Whoever wrote that garbage wouldn't last a week at my store.

[Kiwi]

Every single place I worked stung you up alive if you dared take the day off to be "sick". It was made known how much you were letting down the team and what a HUGE inconvience it was blah blah blah.

I remember having the flu my first christmas in Canada and being told that if I didn't come in anyway my job would be gone even though I was vomiting and clearly to sick to be working. When I finally made it in the bitch of a boss tried to send me home with no pay....no thank you I didn't drag myself down here and vomit all morning for you to weasel out of paying me $40 for the day. The other staff were pissed at her not at me thank god!

[BookstoreEscapee]

I rarely call out sick; when I was hourly I got sick days, but I almost always took them in half days, because I'd drag myself to work and my manager would send me home when I couldn't take it anymore. The last time I actually called out sick was after I had been up all night puking (and actually I emailed my boss at 4 in the morning, becuase I was hoping that I'd finally be able to fall asleep by the time he got in). Not long before that I called out one day because I had a mild concussion; I went home early the day after it happened, and stayed home another day because I was feeling so out of it nobody wanted me driving.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Well, I don't work sick. The jobs that wanted me to were never jobs that mattered, so screw 'em. They weren't paying me enough to work sick, and the threat of getting fired was not much of a threat.

My last job was worth a damn, but then, one of the reasons it was worth a damn was because they didn't expect or even want me to work sick.

As for working through sniffles...uh, thanks, but I'd rather you not come in and make me sick, so I can go home and give it to my entire freaking family. As fun as that sounds, I think I'll take a pass on that. I never get just the sniffles. And neither does my husband.

[AdminAssistant]

When I was the Admin Coordinator at TJ Maxx (i.e. handling the deposits, among other things), I came down with strep throat. My doctor quarantined me for 4 days. When I called my manager, he said, "But there's nobody to do the deposit!!" My reply, "I have STREP THROAT. Do you want me to contaminate all of that money and pass on my illness to all of our customers as well?"

Sheesh.

[purple]

I would love to stay home whenever I was a little sick but a) I only have 5 paid sick days a year and b) My boss likes to take my shifts off me when I call out sick. Last week I called in sick because I couldn't move from my bed to the couch with out needing my inhaler, this week and next week I have 7 hours.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

If I get sick, I either have to take a day of vacation to stay home and get paid, or take an unpaid day off.

Yeah, not happening unless I am really, really sick. As in throwing up or physically unable to work due to aches or muscle fatigue.

[Cat]

I won't call out for the sniffles...I only have so few sick days and I need to use them should emergencies arise. And calling out because cold meds make you a lil sleepy?? Please.

[purple]

\ And calling out because cold meds make you a lil sleepy?? Please.

This one confused me because I thought they made cold meds so I could work, if I wasn't going into work I wouldn't take them.

[Cat]

All allergy/cold meds make me sleepy even the non-drowsy ones. Grr, its annoying!