Today I am sick

[snapper_37]

Calling people "the biggest, skiving f**kwit walking" is not a nice thing to do, would you do that if that person had to take time off to get treatment for cancer?

Err no, of course not.

If that question is aimed at me, you've got the wrong end of the stick. Such slagging off/bitching usually comes from the top management/director level, not the likes of us who can't afford to go off sick so if we do, it means we really are quite poorly.

I've got a sticking cold myself today but I'd like to have a full salary packet next month ta very much.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Not good really, I think modern society needs to change their attitudes to sickness.

Get Well Soon Sandra6.

Yes indeed Gromit. My #1 daughter goes to work and picks bugs up from staff and customers and brings them home. Her employer expects staff to attend under (nearly) all circumstances.

GWS Sandra6

 

[cyberknight]

Yes indeed Gromit. My #1 daughter goes to work and picks bugs up from staff and customers and brings them home. Her employer expects staff to attend under (nearly) all circumstances.

GWS Sandra6

My emplyer is the same, with an in house doc/medical centre they expect you to turn up unless your dead, guy just returned after heart surgery and cant work so they have him laminating all day.people have been known to be given boxes of bolts to count ..................
then theres the return to work interview, have 3 occasions of in a year and you get a black mark no matter how valid.

 

[Sandra6]

Well enough to use a Laptop?? you're well enough to go to work..
GWS

Mr 6 has just informed me that I will be sacked forthwith for being well enough to update my facebook status while off sick.
Guess I best call work and tell them I'll be in tomorrow and hope nobody read this thread.
I am feeling a bit better, have managed a slice of toast and a cup of tea and I feel the same temperature all over, so that's a start.
Thank you all for your "kind" words

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Mr 6 has just informed me that I will be sacked forthwith for being well enough to update my facebook status while off sick.
Guess I best call work and tell them I'll be in tomorrow and hope nobody read this thread.
I am feeling a bit better, have managed a slice of toast and a cup of tea and I feel the same temperature all over, so that's a start.
Thank you all for your "kind" words

Good news then. Tea and toast have been accepted

 

[Alex Newman]

When I worked in the summer, my employer was really nice when I got sick, he said get well soon and asked me if I was ok when I came back to work.
Have a speedy recovery Sandra 6

 

[Pat "5mph"]

GWS Sandra!
To bed early, now, not interwebbing all night when you're sick

 

[Hip Priest]

Get well soon, read Wodehouse.

Seconded. Also, there's an excellent little book called How to be Idle, which contains a chapter about being off sick. I read it every time I'm off work ill, and it helps to kick the guilt into touch.

 

[Falwheeler]

I'm afraid when I was in management I assumed that every sick call was someone one the skive, sorry everyone but I think managers are made to feel that only death or something more serious, would stop you from coming to work and you expect the same from everyone else.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Seconded. Also, there's an excellent little book called How to be Idle, which contains a chapter about being off sick. I read it every time I'm off work ill, and it helps to kick the guilt into touch.

Is that Tom Hodgekinson's book? Marvellous.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Best sick leave ever was when I did care / support work; my housemate got scabies and even although I didn't get it I wasn't allowed to go to work

 

[Hitchington]

Hope you feel better, if not you've always got "Jeremy Kyle" to cheer you up

 

[asterix]

Really, properly poorly sick, I've had to call in work and say I can't make it in.
Wouldn't it be nice if they actually said "aw, are you ok/" Instead of making you feel like a major inconvenience??
I can't even take a paracetamol for the pain in my head as I can't hold down the water to take them.
I now expect to be cheered up immensely.
Thank you.

Apparently the Jeremy Kyle show is compelling viewing others say it will soon have you back at work.

GWS

There.. I have just noticed Hitchington beat me to it

 

[Sandra6]

Today I am feeling a little better, I've not thrown up again anyway.
I'm going back to work this afternoon, only a four hour shift.
I wouldn't mind the duty manager's attitude so much if he hadn't been off himself for three days with a cold!!!

 

[Col5632]

Glad to hear your feeling better today, it's one rule for one and another for the rest