Anyone else feel guilty for being off sick??

lir6777

Hi there,
So I'm in my job almost 1 year and had to call in sick for the first time today- I was up all night and morning with vomiting and diarrhea and was shaking making the phone call because I was so weak.
My boss was lovely and told me to feel better etc etc, and there wasn't anything on today that I can't catch up on with some hard graft when I'm well. But I always always always feel so guilty when I'm off sick that it feels like it would have been worth it to drag myself in anyway!
I know this wasn't possible today as I was VERY ill at 9am and work with vulnerable people who shouldn't be exposed to these bugs- and yet I'm sitting here now feeling like a slacker. I'm annoyed with myself for feeling like this as it's ONE sick day in a year, and I feel like I'm much better now so should be back to near-normal tomorrow- but I can't shake the feeling that I'm dossing!
Anyone else ever feel like this? And any suggestions for how to cop myself on about this? Thanks!:rolleyes:

Denerick

Do some calculations.

The average worker in Ireland gets their minimum 21 holiday days a year and some get bank holidays as well.

You work 5/7 days of the week, often for 8 or 9 hours a day.

Of those days you spend at work, 8 hours are spent in toil, 8 at leisure, 8 at sleep.

For those who live 'natural' lives - as in, have families - those 8 hours will mostly be spent doing housework, caring for children, ferrying people to and fro, the general malaise of everyday life.

Roughly speaking, there are 365 days in a year. Excluding the 21 holiday days you will spend 239/365 days at work every year, or 65.48% of your life. If you are entitled to ten public holidays a year the ratio is slightly better: 229/365 or 62.74%.

In an average year, there are 8,760 hours. One third, on average, will be spent asleep. Calculating from the above 229 days a year, you will spend 1,832 hours a year at work, or 20.91% of your life in any given year. Once you exclude the time you spend asleep, we can see that you will spend a ridiculous 31.2% of your waking hours at work!

We work and we work and for what?

Take your couple of sick days for Christs sake and don't feel bad about it. You are not a slave.

tempura

Guilt is a wasted emotion.

Relax for gods sake.

Your not Catholic by any change ? :rolleyes:

lau1247

if you're sick, you're sick.. there not much you can do..
Unless you're faking it, then nothing to be feeling guilty about..
We're all get sick from time to time, so it happens..