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i'm sick today. Probably shoulda stayed home, my stomach hated me last night for no reason and is vowing vengeance today

how sick do you have to be to stay home sick? Not people in general... YOU.

a.) temp of over 100F

b.) temp of over 102F

c.) chills

d.) i stay home when it's tuesday out

e.) any time i can eat, i go to work

f.) only when contagion dictates staying home

spark) i'm a nurse, i don't get to stay home

wit) i might stay home but i'll still do homework/work

SW) When the squirrels tell me to

g) i AM home, now lemme alone

kid) i have kids, i stay home for any illness involving the sick-kid look

zzz) when i'm too tired to work

TL) when i'm still too drunk from last night to drive anywhere

blinder) i stay home when someone makes me

p) when the marshmallow peeps attack

sun) only when it's nice out

meep) i don't get days off

W) when i'm too weak to walk

low fever, stomach pain and nausea, sore throat, serious fatigue and aches. Shoulda known something was up when i fell asleep yesterday evening- out like a light.

By the way, hokie, that damned ukelele rock is now stuck in my head. It was the headbanging that really made me laugh, i can't decide whether it's the most amazing thing i've ever heard or the worst sin against music...anywhere... ever.

Which means it did its job. Funniest was the sight of the audience, who started out laughing hysterically, and finally ended up rocking ot it AND laughing hysterically.

is it time to go home now? oh, wait, no i just got here.

*sigh*

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  • I telecommute when I feel ill, so I get to use my sick days for mental health days (i.e. I'm sick and tired of work).

  • M) (Score:2)

    by ellem ( 147712 ) *
    M) I never take off. God hates me, so do I.
  • But the squirrels only let me stay home from work if I've thrown up that very morning.

    Oh, wait...no. That was my parents. I love to tell the story about the time that I was getting ready for school and I passed out in the bathroom, knocking my head into the doorknob on the way down. I don't know how long I was out, probably only a few seconds, but my mom made me go to school. Most people disbelieve me rather than have to mull that one over for too long.

    I've still gone to work with food poisoning, pink e
  • I have to be incopacitated and bedridden for me to be 'really' sick.

  • When I hit somewhere around 100 I get the aches, especially in my legs. That's enough to keep me from even thinking about going to work.

  • 0) A serious kidney infection kept me home in 1988. But since then, almost no sick days - the exceptions being once: "I gotta go throw up now", and once: "I'm contagious" (I missed a family reunion, not work).
  • I missed half a day on Thursday because I woke up at 4:30am with a migraine and nausea. Stayed up an hour, concluded I wasn't feeling well enough to drive to work safely, then fell asleep again, overslept, woke up feeling slightly better, emailed my supervisor to let him know I'd be late, waited until I felt well enough to drive, and then went to work.

    The "am I feeling well enough to go to work or not?" debate is, for me, intensely stressful, as I always feel terribly guilty about it, no matter how sick I a
  • Whenever I try to get out of bed, or stand up, and my body immediately responds by staging a sit-down protest. Then I stay home. Often I'll even call work and tell them that I'm not coming in, unless they'd like to send by a litter to pick me up, and even then I want napping privileges...and juice!

    Nobody's ever taken me up on the litter.
    • probably because they don't see the point if you're too sick to enjoy it.

      That, and it would take seven of me to carry one of you.

      And that wouldn't leave enough arms to defend the chocolates.

  • Obviously also applies to me... ;-)
  • kid) and nizo); since I hardly ever sick, if I didn't take mental health days I would never take a day off. My current employer is clever however and combines sick and personal time into one lump. Right now I am maxed out and in need of some serious mental health time (for now you just have to imagine the crazed squirrel twitchy deal going on with my left eye right now). *twitch twitch*
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  • but getting better about it. i think the last time i had a nasty sinus episode and couldn't stand... i took a sick day without being told to :)

    • but i think it's cancelling out to zero because of the glass-in-foot episode, and you still need practice with the taking care of self stuff. Just don't follow my example; i'm a baby.

      Is it time to go home yet?

  • Coming up on four years here, and only once have a taken a sick day b/c I was actually sick-- and I spent that day in the doctor's office waiting for them to squeeze me in.

    I consider my sick days to be vacation days, and I use them when I need to take an afternoon off or something.

    Vacation time is to cover me when I run out of sick leave, or for an extra couple paychecks if I leave for a new job.

  • Is wasted on being sick. As long as you're going to be miserable and useless, do it at the office and save that time for heady summer afternoons.

    My $.02...

  • Is about the only thing. And by Can't Drive Safely, I mean can't go more than 10 minutes without blacking out. Driving to to the park and ride and then blacking out on the train on the way to work is fine.

  • MPO (Score:1)

    by http ( 589131 )
    meep meep) i don't want days off

    (for me, it's (e) and (f) )
  • Get well soon, Sol! *smooch*

    -MT.
  • My general answer would be blinder, with the added note that usually it's the people at work telling me to go home, since I don't have anyone home who will make me call in sick. But the exception is migraines. When I can't bear to keep my eyes open long enough to work, because it hurts too much, I figure I might as well be at home.
  • The true, actual sick days are like blinder. Like when I couldn't go back to work because the ER checked me into the hospital.

    The other sick days (like today) are mental health days and because I have better things to do elsewhere. *shrug* What are they gonna do, fire me?

    ^_^

  • g. (Score:2)

    by tomhudson ( 43916 )
    ... since I now work from home ...

    ... and the squirrel doesn't tell me what to do most of the time, but the DOGS are bossy!.

  • Yes, when I stay home sick from school, I still manage to accomplish plenty of homework, otherwise I'd never survive.

    But when it comes to real work, I get yelled at when I call in sick. I was actually yelled at. So I brought notes from two different doctors (my primary and my speicalist) explaining my medical condition, and then I was told it "wasn't fair to not give them any notice".

    And today, I filled in for a guy who called in "sick" to go to a wedding. But he let the manager know the night before, so th

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