Calling in sick to work

When you do, do you, like me, put on a woe-is-me voice, even though you are legitimately ill?

 

Unfortunately, as the boss I can't call in to someone.
Its just the competing voices in my head hehe. "I'm ill today". "Shut the fuck up you lazy bastard". "I'm ill". "You fucking liar, its a hangover. Doesn't count".

The only issue would be with clients. Which often means a flight, so I'd struggle on.
Local ones, I can't even recall being ill in recent times.

 

When I worked outside the house....yes, I could be sick as a dog and I would find myself feeling the need to talk like that while thinking "please believe me".... .really quite ridiculous, but, yes.

 

no I go to work sick and spread the love.. i mean germs..

 

calling in sick to work on what?

 

Nope. I just call and say hey im not comin in today, chicken fuckers!!!!

 

I call in before I even get out of bed so my voice has that raspy just woken up quality bit always makes me sound sicker.

I have a bad habit of sounding perky even when I'm not so I'm always really paranoid my work won't believe me when I call in.

 

me too...when i worked for people before i never took a day off no matter how sick

and now i might put things off for a bit but i dont stop completely because when people need me its usually pretty urgent

 

All I have is me to convince and it doesn't go over well because I never believe myself anyway. Actually if I am really sick I can adjust for what I need and if there is an appointment I just call and cancel it.
Before when I went to work for someone else I never took much of my sick days till near the end of the year and I didn't feel guilty doing so. Some people used more then work offered us and had to take them unpaid but when it was about a party or something going on they didn't care I guess.

 

I just took a sick day last week. First one in 15 or so years. People at work were concerned that I must have been dying to do that. Told my boss I was sick and not coming in and he said, really, you OK?

 

Ima little confused, retired hippie,,,

 

maybe he retired from hippiness but not from working

 

What BBad Said

 

OP, am i wrong or did you just suddenly materialize from a several year absence?

i've never called in sick to work. i've had to call off maybe 5 times in my life. 4 of them were when i was working in pizza delivery and my car was broke down (it broke down more times than that, but there were also a few times i got to work and either drove my manager's car, or acted as manager while the manager took deliveries). the other time was, interestingly enough, not a pizza delivery job but it was due to my car breaking down on the last pizza delivery i ever took. i was scheduled to finish my last day at the pizza place and go straight to my other job, which was about 50 minutes away. on my final delivery, i went around a corner and my tire literally fell off. i was supposed to be at the other job in about an hour and a half, and by the time i got my car towed and set up to be fixed there was just no way to get down there in time, or really ever unless i wanted to pay a couple hundred to a taxi driver.

 

Good one, I was just checking if you were messing with my mind, haha

 

I never felt guilty about calling in sick, or if I had something I had to do..or somewhere I had to be on a particular day,,I just called, and said I wouldn't be in...and took the hit in pay. I have seen too many people put work BEFORE everything else in their life, and feel they were irreplacable..The day I walked into work, and told them I was leaving (after almost 30 years)..they had my papers ready in 10 minutes, and a replacement in my job the next day. I know people have to work, to put food on the table, and a roof over their heads...BUT!...So many people let life pass them by, because they HAVE! to go to work..I usually missed on average 5-10 days a year, over my life of working..I never regretted taking any time off, my family, health and life came first...my job was that..a JOB!...I was not career focused..I was LIFE! focused.

 

I was never one to call in sick anywhere, even when I was sick. I went to work once...so sick I worked the whole day anyway...then went to the hospital to find out I had scarlet fever. Only I get the most odd things, it seems sometimes.

 

Maybe I am.

 

Wow, you guys are making me feel like such a pussy for not going to my office job just because of a bit of mild diarrhea.

I feel really guilty whenever I call in sick, and usually I'd probably be fine to work, it would just be uncomfortable. I'm lucky enough to have the luxury of getting paid even when sick. I miss my ~$150 bonus, which stings, but my work isn't very important (except to my employer) so it's not a big deal if I'm away for a day.

Undies, I post now and then but since I left Thailand a couple years ago, it's been very infrequent. Had a random thought, though, and no better place for it than here.

 

Yeah, there's no calling in sick at my job