phoning in sick

[Vintage Paw]

I can't do it. Well, I can, but I feel incredibly guilty. And I hate my bosses and employers.


I'm just too nice

 

[sim667]

I can't do it. Well, I can, but I feel incredibly guilty. And I hate my bosses and employers.


I'm just too nice

my problem too.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Off sick today


Genuine tho, wiped out on me bike and can't move left knee or left thumb

Didn't feel guilty at all. No conscience, me.

 

[Nemo]

make sure you use the 'ill voice' when phoning in sick. Its all part of the tradition.

I've only ever used that for one illness, and that was because my voice was more or less gone due to some manky virus that was doing the rounds last winter. Pretty effective though; my boss said I sounded like the devil.

 

[Termite Man]

I'm not sick but I'm at work

I think sick , guilty and at home would be better !

 

[Termite Man]

Off sick today


Genuine tho, wiped out on me bike and can't move left knee or left thumb

Didn't feel guilty at all. No conscience, me.

bike accidents - best excuse for taking a day off

 

[Zachor]

just phoned in sick. i am sick, but i still feel guilty

I get this as well. I feel guilty about leaving my colleauges to cover work and when I'm home I also feel wracked by guilt over not being well enough to do housework / DIY.

I'm one big ball of guilt.

 

[Athos]

Employee: I can't come in; I'm in bed, sick.
Boss: How sick?





















Employee: Well... I'm here with my brother!

ifanku

 

[Hocus Eye.]

The last time I was sick - and I am only sick once every ten years or so - I did not say what was wrong with me directly, only that I needed to be no further than a few feet away from the bathroom at all times. The person on the other end did not waste time trying to question me further. He had got the message. I don't know what caused it, I had not had a takeaway or eaten out so there was nothing I could blame.

 

[mk12]

make sure you use the 'ill voice' when phoning in sick. Its all part of the tradition.

Even if you have a sore toe or something, you always have to use that voice...

 

[rennie]

I phone in sick yesterday AND today. Do I feel guilty? Not a chance, especially after spending all day yesterday in hospital and being told I have a blood infection.

 

[Blagsta]

I phone in sick yesterday AND today. Do I feel guilty? Not a chance, especially after spending all day yesterday in hospital and being told I have a blood infection.

Sounds serious. You OK?

 

[rennie]

Sounds serious. You OK?

Yes! Slightly spaced out with all that codeine they gave me but otherwise I feel much better already. I managed to have a good night's sleep too.

 

[Blagsta]

Yes! Slightly spaced out with all that codeine they gave me but otherwise I feel much better already. I managed to have a good night's sleep too.

You out tonight at Offline?

 

[rennie]

You out tonight at Offline?

Wish I could. Bed ridden with codeine to accompany me.

 

[Blagsta]

Hope you feel better soon!

 

[ethel]

phoned in sick. couldn't sleep at all last night. woke up at 2.30 with a headache and couldn't get back to sleep. can you have delayed jetlag? i feel awful.

 

[ethel]

no doctors appointments

 

[panpete]

I'm sick and I work from home, dammit I hate this time of year, can't go out the house without getting ill.

I know what you mean, I always felt guilty about calling in sick unless I was absolutely unable to move, with the consequence that I'd work while getting sicker and sicker then have to take a whole week off eventually. Bloody stupid really.

I find I am ill much, much less now I am not out all day.

 

[Relahni]

I'm off sick.

Hopefully this will be the last day though. Am keen to get back to work. Was considering it, but still feel like shit.

I don't know if I feel guilty. I want to work and obviously don't like being sick. There's nothing I can do about being ill. It's a proper pain, but it happens.

 

[mrsfran]

I'm off sick today for the second day and feel crushingly guilty. I am actually sick, but still worry my boss is going to hate me.

 

[5t3IIa]

I just rang in sick (directs sympathetic posters to OW! thread in knobbin) and dont' exactly feel guitly as I am sorta incapacitated but feel crap cuz I'm the only one who knows I am not being a sciver.

I've worked places with terrible bullshitters and now have little patience with 'Oh no I've got gastroenteritis blah blah' types

 

[ddraig]

i just emailed in sick!
feel really really shit tbh
been awake most of the night for the 3 night in a row, hot/cold coughing a lot (painfully!) and sneezing. bloody well dark at 4am init

i do feel bad as i'm off from friday onwards till the 29th and i'd also semi organised a lush vegi/vegan curry delivery for a group of us at work today

buttt, i don't want to infect anyone else and tis my birthday on friday so don't want to get worse again or prolong getting better.

doubt there'll be much going on or many peeps in and i am never off sick, but no one is indispensible really...

so stop feeling guilty fellow lurgyites

 

[Sunspots]

I once phoned in sick at 3am, in the middle of a long dark sleepless night of projectile vomiting and diarrhoea, managing to leave an understandably pathetic message on the office answer phone.

When I returned to work a couple of days later, my boss preceded to play me a techno remix he'd made on the computer, featuring me on vocals. -Bastard!

 

[Herbsman.]

I hate phoning in sick, I really dread the phone call and put it off for ages, but the earlier I get it out of the way the better, as it gives them time to sort out cover for me.

Problem is there is no-one else who does the same job as me, so anyone who covers me takes longer to do my jobs, and it costs the company more money.

I hate the feeling of telling them I'm not coming in... I feel like I'm lying even though I'm genuinely sick

 

[ethel]

I'm off sick today for the second day and feel crushingly guilty. I am actually sick, but still worry my boss is going to hate me.

This. in other news, my new doctor is lovely. he's asked that a get a million different blood tests and has also referred me to a specialist for my knee. he also said that he takes multivitamins instead of eating properly. he rocks.

 

[AllStarMe]

ive been off ill this week, with this coldy fluey bug thats going round. i feel dreadful.
i feel unbelievably guilty and have spent a lot of time worrying about what my work loads going to be like when i get back (no one covers anyone in our office. dead nice like that).

i hate that i feel guilty and feel the need to give big long elaborate explainations of exactly whats wrong with me, when im genuinely ill.

 

[Funky_monks]

I don't tend to call in sick, mostly cos I live at work. Last time I was ill, I went down to the farmyard in my pjs, dressing gown and wellies and shouted across to my boss:

'I'm not coming to work. Ill. Got that fucking......... Um Bongo Virus - don't come any closer!'


(it was of course the Norro virus, but I couldn't remember its name. I called it the 'Bonobo virus' in my text the next day, I was off then too )

 

[dolly's gal]

i stop off when i ain't sick and go in when i am. ludicrous, mad-cap, fucking INSANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!! but thats me all over - i fuck with the fucking system, i'm dangerous dolly

 

[electrogirl]

if i want to phone in sick i convince myself that conveniently, i genuinely am sick.

then i feel less bad.