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Re: Being sick = going home?
By: Hmmm Date: January 3, 2019, 8:58 pm
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[quote author=shadowfox79 link=topic=894.msg22548#msg22548
date=1546081361]
[quote author=iolaus link=topic=894.msg22496#msg22496
date=1546038182]
[quote author=shadowfox79 link=topic=894.msg22442#msg22442
date=1545982782]
especially since I had diarrhoea too, so I resigned myself to
feeling ill for a few days. I did not call in sick since I only
sit a few feet from the bathroom
[/quote]
Both ends? You need to be off
Our policy states 48 hours off after last episode - just
vomiting would be considered ok
[/quote]
Our office policy essentially states "Call in sick and we'll
kill you." I prefer not to call in sick unless it's physically
impossible for me to get to work.
[/quote]
That's odd that the "policy" is to come in when sick but 2 TL's
were ready to send you home because they heard you being ill.
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Re: Being sick = going home?
By: shadowfox79 Date: January 4, 2019, 1:29 am
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[quote author=Twik link=topic=894.msg23148#msg23148
date=1546543987]
[quote author=shadowfox79 link=topic=894.msg22548#msg22548
date=1546081361]
[quote author=iolaus link=topic=894.msg22496#msg22496
date=1546038182]
[quote author=shadowfox79 link=topic=894.msg22442#msg22442
date=1545982782]
especially since I had diarrhoea too, so I resigned myself to
feeling ill for a few days. I did not call in sick since I only
sit a few feet from the bathroom
[/quote]
Both ends? You need to be off
Our policy states 48 hours off after last episode - just
vomiting would be considered ok
[/quote]
Our office policy essentially states "Call in sick and we'll
kill you." I prefer not to call in sick unless it's physically
impossible for me to get to work.
[/quote]
Bet they have quite a lot of office-transmitted illnesses.
[/quote]
We've had norovirus around the office lately. Fortunately I seem
to have missed it.
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Re: Being sick = going home?
By: shadowfox79 Date: January 4, 2019, 1:29 am
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[quote author=Hmmm link=topic=894.msg23213#msg23213
date=1546570701]
[quote author=shadowfox79 link=topic=894.msg22548#msg22548
date=1546081361]
[quote author=iolaus link=topic=894.msg22496#msg22496
date=1546038182]
[quote author=shadowfox79 link=topic=894.msg22442#msg22442
date=1545982782]
especially since I had diarrhoea too, so I resigned myself to
feeling ill for a few days. I did not call in sick since I only
sit a few feet from the bathroom
[/quote]
Both ends? You need to be off
Our policy states 48 hours off after last episode - just
vomiting would be considered ok
[/quote]
Our office policy essentially states "Call in sick and we'll
kill you." I prefer not to call in sick unless it's physically
impossible for me to get to work.
[/quote]
That's odd that the "policy" is to come in when sick but 2 TL's
were ready to send you home because they heard you being ill.
[/quote]
It surprised me too, frankly, because I knew that if I had gone
home sick there would have been hell to pay when I returned.
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Re: Being sick = going home?
By: NewHomeowner Date: January 8, 2019, 7:06 am
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[quote author=SecretSauce link=topic=894.msg23039#msg23039
date=1546474259]
[quote author=shadowfox79 link=topic=894.msg22442#msg22442
date=1545982782]
[quote author=STiG link=topic=894.msg22371#msg22371
date=1545930765]
If you are not contagious and it is a one time thing for the
day, I think you are fine to stay at work. Pregnancy would be
the exception to the one time thing, though I think if I was
sick multiple times in a day, I wouldn't want to stay at work!
If you are contagious, home you go and stay there until you
haven't been sick for at least 24 hours and preferably 48 hours.
[/quote]
I'll be honest, I'm sick that often that if I was contagious I
probably wouldn't know about it until someone else got it.
Case in point - a couple of months ago I started throwing up on
a Sunday morning. It felt different from my usual weird stomach
so I assumed (having made a new chicken dish the night before)
that I had poisoned myself, especially since I had diarrhoea
too, so I resigned myself to feeling ill for a few days. I did
not call in sick since I only sit a few feet from the bathroom -
I just loaded up on Imodium and my anti-sickness meds.
A week later DH got it. So apparently it was a bug, not food
poisoning. Unfortunately, as he's a postman and is frequently
out delivering for hours at a time, he did have to call in sick.
Fortunately nobody at work came down with it.
[/quote]
Being in a communal bathroom while someone is going at it from
either is awful. If I had that I would not want to subject
coworkers to the audio and olfactory outputs I was making. Also
can you be sure that the area is even remotely sanitary after a
bout of that? I've heard that a toilet can "spray" up anywhere
from 2 to 20 feet when flushed.
[/quote]
Mythbusters busted that one a long while ago.
#Post#: 23571--------------------------------------------------
Re: Being sick = going home?
By: Twik Date: January 8, 2019, 12:56 pm
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I think if you're contagious or unable to work you should go
home if possible. If it's something non-catching, you can still
do your work and you're not likely to make an unexpected
addition to the lobby carpet, you *may* stay at work.
I once had to stand up and run a full day's training course with
what I think was a case of food poisoning (either that or a
24-hour bug). I relied on Imodium and *really* frequent rest
breaks. The client had enchiladas for lunch. Alas!
#Post#: 24251--------------------------------------------------
Re: Being sick = going home?
By: NewHomeowner Date: January 18, 2019, 6:51 am
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I had horrible migraines from the age of 3 until I was finally
treated properly at age 30. I also caught every bug, virus, and
'thing' that was going around in those days. (You know *that
kid* in school who caught everything? Yeah, that was me).
If I stayed home every time I was under the weather, I'd never
have been able to hold down a job at all. And yet, all through
those years, I not only held down a fulltime job, but a
part-time job, AND sewed in my free time(3rd job), and went to
college part-time. I was so young and so miserable most of the
time, but it had to be done.
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Re: Being sick = going home?
By: Twik Date: January 22, 2019, 9:36 am
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[quote author=LadyJaneinMD link=topic=894.msg24251#msg24251
date=1547815897]
I had horrible migraines from the age of 3 until I was finally
treated properly at age 30. I also caught every bug, virus, and
'thing' that was going around in those days. (You know *that
kid* in school who caught everything? Yeah, that was me).
If I stayed home every time I was under the weather, I'd never
have been able to hold down a job at all. And yet, all through
those years, I not only held down a fulltime job, but a
part-time job, AND sewed in my free time(3rd job), and went to
college part-time. I was so young and so miserable most of the
time, but it had to be done.
[/quote]
There are things that can be worked through, miserable though it
is, and things that can't. Frequent vomiting attacks can't be.
Pneumonia shouldn't be (says the person who tried).
I had a person at a training session politely ask, during a
break, "Do you think I could leave early? I think I'm having a
heart attack." The answer was yes, and let me call an ambulance
right now.
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