If you're sick, do you call into work?

[LissaM]

I have been sitting here for the last WEEK listening to my co-worker cough once every twenty seconds. I'm not exaggerating. Everyone in the office is ready to kill him, it is annoying, and all you want to do is tell him to just FREAKING GO HOME!!!

So does anyone else come into work when they are hacking up a lung?? Just curious. If I were him I'd just call in!!!

Just a HUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEE office pet peeve, I guess. Thanks for listening to the rant!

[underpants]

1. That persons manager should send him home

and tell him not to come back until...say...Monday.

[WeRQ4U]

2. This one has always been a conundrum for me.

I don't miss work. I hate to miss work. I would rather (and yes this is completely inconsiderate) just go and work and NOT call in and ONLY miss work if I was instructed to leave by the boss.

It's a matter of pride for me. And like I said, I know it's inconsiderate to others. It's just really hard for me to miss work.

[LissaM]

3. See,

I can understand that, and I kind of feel the same, if I'm not being blatantly annoying. But this guy doesn't do anything, anyway. He's pretty new, which is fine, but he spends most of the time on the phone with his mortgage company and looking on ebay. Can't you do that at home and spare us the disgusting phlegm rattling throat clearing mess??

[Mizmoon]

4. If he's new he's probably too insecure to call in yet

the manager should tell him to go home for the rest of the week.

[WeRQ4U]

6. Very true. If I were new on the job, it would take even more...

for me to call in sick. That's a good point.

[LissaM]

8. Ah, I guess you're right...

It's still annoying though!!!! Maybe I should go to Target on my lunch and buy him a bottle of Robitussen.

[WeRQ4U]

5. Maybe I would only come if my disease could spread silently....

LOL.

If I were hacking loudly and disrupting the office both chemcially AND audibly, then maybe I'd stay home.

Why doesn't someone tell him to take a hike? THat should be a supervisor's job.

[texas1928]

7. I tried calling in last week but my back up would not answer his phone.

SO I had to come to work. I left wen he came in at 10 AM. But he came down with what I had this week. HA HA!!!

[johnnie]

9. I think that not calling in when your sick is selfish

If I am sick I stay home. Many people I work with have children or in contact with elderly people and I don't feel it is right to spread my bugs on to them.

I understand that some people think it is more responsible to be at work instead of taking care of themselves and not exposing others to their illness, but I don't. Work is just part of my life and not my whole life.

I don't want to offend anyone, but it's how I feel about it.

[Cathyclysmic]

10. It depends

For little sniffles, I go to work...why waste sick days for when you are sick?

I know all the single moms I work with save their sick days for when their kids are sick. Like the girl next to me sounds like she has whooping cough. She's sticking it out. But when the school calls with one of her kids barfing, she leaves.

[LynzM]

11. Yup, same here

Unless I'm *really* sick, I'm coming in. I've got 10 sick days in any rolling year to split between myself and time I have to take for my daughter, and I can take meds and be functional. If she needs me to be home, then I have to be there. I'd much rather be sleeping today (nasty head cold), but DayQuil, a box of tissues, and washing my hands a lot will have to suffice!

[rbnyc]

12. Not always.

I have a chronic illness. If I stayed home every day I was sick, I'd have to go on disability.

But I'm not contagious.