Who takes more sick days

Stabshauptmann

We just had a good debate at the morning tea break (yes 10am and we've already had a tea break ) about who takes more sick days men or women.

Throw it into google and the same answer comes back, women take more sick leave. And its not just about caring for kids, noone in our office has any.

first none of the women would admit this to being true, then by the end they just claim that men exagerate illness and treat a cold like the flu and take days off for minor things.

But this surely doesnt add up. How can men take more sick days for minor things but still take less sick days over all?!

And do men take sick days for minor things? I've never seen it, Ive never seen a sick woman in work but I always see lads who are dying. Isnt there more pressure on men to soldier on??

So what do you think
Who takes more sick days?
And do men over react to a runny nose?

spurious

Maybe women, but then we live longer, so maybe there's something to it.:cool:

baztard

Civil Servants

Honey-ec

Atari Jaguar

biko

Sickos take the most days

Steve_o

Days can't get sick... don't be silly.... :rolleyes::p

copeyhagen

luck for men, God didnt punish us by giving us a menstrual cycle and periods.

take that Eve you whore!!!

taidghbaby

whats a sick day, and why havent my red chinese masters informed me of it before

ejmaztec

With Mondays being universal weekly sick-day, I'm surprised that Kaptain Redeye had anybody to talk to during his tea-break.

m83

I was sick, once... aye them were the days..

Stabshauptmann

ejmaztec wrote: »

With Mondays being universal weekly sick-day, I'm surprised that Kaptain Redeye had anybody to talk to during his tea-break.

It was the subject of missing team members that sparked the debate

5starpool

I haven't been off sick for 19 months, and I haven't pulled a sickie for so long I can't remember the last one, def over 3 years though.

Canis Lupus

I've taken one sick day in 3 years. (I'm a bloke) and I was actually feeling better but was completely ****ed off with my job so I was naughty. I was brought up in such a way that when I was sick I was given a dispirin and pegged out the door to school (unless genuinely sick).

On the otherhand there is a lad I work with who has on a conservative guess taken more sick days this year already than I am granted in holidays. I mean, he took a half day the other day for a sore throat the poor lamb.

Anyway, I don't think gender really matters. It's more of an outlook/upbringing sort of thing.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Yore Ma!

Now now, she's yore maw too, Brandine!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Male employee: I can't come in today.... I'm sick.... It's a bit... personal
Female boss: You're just hungover. Get the fvck in here or you're fired.

Female emploee: I can't come in today... I'm sick.... It's a bit.... personal
Male boss: Take as long as you need!!

ejmaztec

Kaptain Redeye wrote: »

It was the subject of missing team members that sparked the debate

Strange though it may seem, but I assumed as much.

javaboy

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Now now, she's yore maw too, Brandine!

Nice comeback. Nothing worse than a Yore Ma joke with absolutely no effort put in.

Something like "Yore ma takes more sick days judging by the warts on me mickey" would have been a little better. Make the effort people.

javaboy

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Male employee: I can't come in today.... I'm sick.... It's a bit... personal
Female boss: You're just hungover. Get the fvck in here or you're fired.

Female emploee: I can't come in today... I'm sick.... It's a bit.... personal
Male boss: Take as long as you need!!

Apparently from reading another thread, men have to stick a watermelon up their penis before we're allowed to whinge about stuff like this. Equality my arse.

Kinetic^

spurious wrote: »

Maybe women, but then we live longer, so maybe there's something to it.:cool:

You also bleed more........:eek:......../me gets knife!!!!

Ikky Poo2

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Male employee: I can't come in today.... I'm sick.... It's a bit... personal
Female boss: You're just hungover. Get the fvck in here or you're fired.

Female emploee: I can't come in today... I'm sick.... It's a bit.... personal
Male boss: Take as long as you need!!

I have this disease called the burden of humanity.
It clamps and wrings blood out of my intimate organs once a month, so that life as we know it may continue.
Got a problem with that?

Kinetic^

Moonbaby wrote: »

I have this disease called the burden of humanity.
It clamps and wrings blood out of my intimate organs once a month, so that life as we know it may continue.
Got a problem with that?

Don't answer this!! We'll wait for Snyper to field this question.

WindSock

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Male employee: I can't come in today.... I'm sick.... It's a bit... personal
Female boss: You're just hungover. Get the fvck in here or you're fired.

Female emploee: I can't come in today... I'm sick.... It's a bit.... personal
Male boss: Take as long as you need!!

Male Employee: I don't think I can make it in today, I am feeling a little under the weather.

Male Boss: I hear ye. Hope you had a good night. High Five!




Female Employee: I don't think I can make it in today, feeling under the weather.

Female boss: Oh that's fine sure we will see you tommorrow.
To another employee: That bitch is pissing me off, I don't believe she is sick, she is so fired. And her arse is getting bigger.

Pighead

Moonbaby wrote: »

I have this disease called the burden of humanity.
It clamps and wrings blood out of my intimate organs once a month, so that life as we know it may continue.
Got a problem with that?

Pighead clamps and wrings fluid out of his intimate organ so that his life as he knows it may continue. You don't see him whingeing like a moaning minnie. And he does it a lot more than once a month too.

javaboy

Pighead wrote: »

Pighead clamps and wrings fluid out of his intimate organ so that his life as he knows it may continue. You don't see him whingeing like a moaning minnie. And he does it a lot more than once a month too.

All hail Pighead.

javaboy

Moonbaby wrote: »

I have this disease called the burden of humanity.

Wimmin: Being a woman is a disease.
Wimmins: That is so true. Men are pigs.

Man: Being a woman is a disease.
Wimmins: Bastard. /murders man

WindSock

Pighead wrote: »

Pighead clamps and wrings fluid out of his intimate organ so that his life as he knows it may continue. You don't see him whingeing like a moaning minnie. And he does it a lot more than once a month too.

Maybe you enjoy your fluid wringing a lot more so than we do though. The only thing I enjoy about my monthlies is the part where I get to complain about them. And that it means I'm not pregnant, again. Thanks for letting me know every month, body. It would be easier if you just let me wee on a stick instead.

javaboy wrote: »

Wimmin: Being a woman is a disease.
Wimmins: That is so true. Men are pigs.

Man: Being a woman is a disease.
Wimmins: Bastard. /murders man

Needs more stabbing motions.

daveharnett

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Male employee: I can't come in today.... I'm sick.... It's a bit... personal
Female boss: You're just hungover. Get the fvck in here or you're fired.

Female emploee: I can't come in today... I'm sick.... It's a bit.... personal
Male boss: Take as long as you need!!

True that.

Still are we in any position to complain, given that we are posting on AH in the middle of the day?

Reku

Kaptain Redeye wrote: »

Throw it into google and the same answer comes back, women take more sick leave. And its not just about caring for kids, noone in our office has any.

first none of the women would admit this to being true, then by the end they just claim that men exagerate illness and treat a cold like the flu and take days off for minor things.

But this surely doesnt add up. How can men take more sick days for minor things but still take less sick days over all?!

And do men take sick days for minor things? I've never seen it, Ive never seen a sick woman in work but I always see lads who are dying. Isnt there more pressure on men to soldier on??

I think this whole idea of the "manflu" is just down to the fact that we don't complain as much about when we have the sniffles and our mascara is running because our eyes are all watery, as such individual times where we are genuinely sick and complain are far easier to remember.:cool:
7 years since my last sick day and counting.


Also if women are taking sick days due to periods then why is there such uproar when this point is raised regarding female leaders/presidents and such topics? Either it genuinely is so bad as to render a person unsuitable for the job for a day or two a month or you're all just skiving off and using it as an excuse.

WindSock

I have never known a woman to use the period excuse willy-nilly to get out of work. I do however know of some women who get it it really really bad that they can't move for a day or two. In those circumstances it is acceptable.

Reku

Then why was it brought up in this thread as an excuse?
Ok, it was originally brought up by a lad, but has since been referenced by at least 2 ladies.

javaboy

WindSock wrote: »

I have never known a woman to use the period excuse willy-nilly to get out of work.

I've known wimmin to use the period excuse to say she's doing nilly willy work.

Schism

Men and women do it, depends on the person.

I used to work with a girl who never missed a day, even came in while sick. On the other hand there was another girl in there who missed about 3-4 days each month, she was fired.

truecrippler

javaboy wrote: »

I've known wimmin to use the period excuse to say she's doing nilly willy work.

Jahsus this Willy Nilly guy seems to like his women when they're on their blob.

Reku

Red wings FTW!

*has disturbing thought regarding gold wings and brown wings*:eek:

bills

must say its women in my workplace but then mostly women work there. Some people see sick days as almost holidays- must use them !! Awful attitude to have. I have not taken a sick day in years.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Pighead wrote: »

Pighead clamps and wrings fluid out of his intimate organ so that his life as he knows it may continue. You don't see him whingeing like a moaning minnie. And he does it a lot more than once a month too.

This would be your left ear, yes?

Reku

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

This would be your left ear, yes?

Whatever you do don't playfully scratch behind it for him, or the right ear for that matter (seriously you don't want to know what happens with that one!!!:eek:)!:p