is never afraid...
Been feeling pretty sick for the last week with a cold/flu thing but been soldiering through it - as ya do.
Finally went to the doctors this morning, doctor took one listen to my lungs & promptly gave me a huge telling off for not coming in sooner and for potentially spreading the oink flu by taking the Harden Up approach to being sick.
Result: some pretty awesome drugs and a doctors note keeping me off work until at least Monday
parting of the sensory
While I can understand people doing this, it's dumb. (Having said that, you're often very infectious before your symptoms become bad enough for you to decide you're sick).
My last boss would go to work unless he was actually unable to get out of bed. One of our managers is SO important he went to Oz despite being quite sick, and took panadol and splashed his face with cold water on the plane to try to avoid the heat scanners in Melbourne airport picking him out, so he wouldn't get quarantined for a week. Then he came to work and spread his lurgy around.
Charming.
And selfish.
Anyway - I hope you get more betterer young Miss L., so being sick doesn't mess up your weekend too badly.
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Forum whore
I understand what you are saying. However, sometimes you just can't afford (financially) to take the time off. With a family - you don't always have time left for yourself to use. Sick days used to look after sick kids, holidays gone etc. Taking a week of to get better with no pay can be pretty devastating to some families.Originally Posted by vifferman
While I can understand people doing this, it's dumb. (Having said that, you're often very infectious before your symptoms become bad enough for you to decide you're sick).
My last boss would go to work unless he was actually unable to get out of bed. One of our managers is SO important he went to Oz despite being quite sick, and took panadol and splashed his face with cold water on the plane to try to avoid the heat scanners in Melbourne airport picking him out, so he wouldn't get quarantined for a week. Then he came to work and spread his lurgy around.
Charming.
And selfish.
Forum whore
I generally try and fight my way through the first flu of the season. Its mostly pretty mild and I don't get sick again for the rest of the year!
But with this oink flu around I'd probably get it checked if I got sick around now!
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is never afraid...
Exactly. I'm a normally healthy person so I figured no big deal, just take some cold&flu pills, plenty of water & rest and I'd get over it quickly
For whom the bell tolls
The head chef at the restaurant I've been working at as a kitchen hand had a go at me for not coming in to work when I was sick, despite having a medical certificate saying that I shouldn't be at work for at least two days.
An hour after I got home from work on Friday I was really sore in all my joints, had a killer headache which was making me feel drunk, and I had a really bad cough. Apparently it's ok to work in a kitchen coughing and spluttering over the food, and also in a condition where you can barely walk straight in the first place. His opinion was 'you just need to be stronger, NZ doctors only make you more sick'... He's Albanian and has been working with a sore throat/cough since I started there.
KiwiBitcher
where opinion holds more weight than fact.
It's better to not pass and know that you could have than to pass and find out that you can't. Wait for the straight.
One hell of a ride.
Cyborg Biker
in the last 5 years, I have oly had one half day of sick leave and I was told to bugger off home... and the boss drove me home...
I usually have to be actually knocking on deaths door before I worry about it... :/
However I been sick of work since I started
sem fiddy pilot
He's probably only got anthrax... nothing to worry about
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seaboat captin
I left going to the doc just wee bit too long after getting this years version of the flu...now into week 4 of a mac daddy inner ear infection....just starting to get some hearing back now...
Hater of haters since 2012
is never afraid...
I'm actually feeling really good compared to how I was, not sure what the hell I'm gonna do to keep myself occupied until monday though!
Scooter boy
I think there need so be a culture change to sickness in New Zealand, first increase in number of sick days (no good for self-employed and small business, I know).
If you come into work to soldier on and get two people sick who go off then it was all for nothing.
There have been studies done that if you do go in you stay sick for longer and as you are less productive when your there, overall you actually contirbute less, plus there's the possibility of the above.
Forum whore
There also needs to be a change in culture with seeing "sick leave" as needing to be taken every year.
I scratch my head when employees come to me asking "how many sick days they have left". WTF you going to be sick tomorrow then ah?
Get well soon Miss.L.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
is never afraid...
'Sick day' aka nice weather, going for a ride day?
Nah, I hate taking sick days, feeling quite guilty about it actually.. but not much I can do about that now!
could catch a monkey
What's the point of being sick if I can't come to work and infect everyone here? Who's gonna cough into the air conditioning vents if not me?
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