Do you go to work when your sick

Skywalker[TSG] · 02-01-2003, 04:47 AM

My father recently got a bad case of the flu
He's been throwing up for days and days, not it feel like i'm getting sick too , but i still feel that i have to go to work for financial reasons.

I might infect hundreds of poeple for $80

would you go to work if you where sick and a potential carrier of a nasty virus.

nunyadam · 02-01-2003, 05:42 AM

Yes, but of course I work in a hospital.

02-01-2003, 05:49 AM

No.

osprey4 · 02-01-2003, 05:59 AM

Unless I'm too weak to be able to walk and stand all day, I go. There always seems to be something too important to stay home.

Germ · 02-01-2003, 06:04 AM

I voted "Yes", but it really depends on how sick I am. Full blown flu? I'd stay home. A cold or something like that, I go to work.

Skywalker[TSG] · 02-01-2003, 06:14 AM

Well i lasted for 1hour.

Then i threw up in the middle of the store , customers everywhere , guess i should've just stayed at home.

Jonty · 02-01-2003, 09:04 AM

That's what sick pay is all about

No, if I had flu or the like I would stay at home. If a cold, then depending on how bad it was I'd go to work.

MegalosSkylaki · 02-01-2003, 09:52 AM

Question IS: Do I work when I'm well ?

AWOOOOOOOOOO !

DooGs have humanoid servents to do that......

ClubMed · 02-01-2003, 09:52 AM

You're missing a 'Depends, I'll post below' option.

If I have a light flu or something like that, and if I feel I have the energy then of course I would go to work.

If it is something more serious then no, my health is more important to me

Ed_S · 02-01-2003, 10:23 AM

I HATE to miss work, I'll go if I can get upright & drive 1.3 miles.
Have actually gone in & passed out at my desk before...
But then, most of my coworkers are the same way - we razz the hell out of anyone who dares to stay home & isn't hospitalized - or DEAD!!

Self- inflicted "Brown Bottle flu" was an especially good cause for harrassment - it's a LOT of fun to razz someone over that, we can drag it on quite a while. Hasn't happened for a few years, guess we're all getting too old. Most of our crew has been together for 20+ yrs...