What's your attitude to sickness?

Ush1

Are you the type to still go to work if you've got a touch of the ebola virus? Or a slight sniffle and your bed bound for days?

How about when people around you are sick? Are you sympathetic or an up and at them type?

Just got me thinking as I've fairly bad stomach cramps for two days and will never not go in to work or see the doctor.

seamus

I used to brave it and go into work, but then I realised that I recover much faster if I take a day at home to just get some extra sleep. Plus, it's very irresponsible to go into work and be coughing and spluttering all over the place.

I'll only go to the doctor if it's something I've never experienced before and it's been going on more than a couple of days, like strep throat I had a couple of years back. Your standard cold with a cough I just take one day to spend sitting on the couch watching crap TV and eating all around me, and then I'm usually right as rain in about 3 days.

Sar_Bear

If I'm not able to do my job properly, I don't go to work.

Usually I have sympathy for people who are sick, except men who have a runny nose & think they are dying. Grow a pair!

Penny Dreadful

I am quite intolerant of other people's sickness which isn't always fair. Sometimes it would seem that they are genuinely sick. Thankfully I am quite hale and hearty and don't get sick too often.
However, that said I've worked through some bad things and really shouldn't have. The lesson I learned (after having what I convinced myself was a bad cold but turned out to be pneumonia and my GP ate the face off me telling me I should have been hospitalised and it took several months to recover) is that you must look after yourself and that work is just work and not worth compromising your health over.

Sky King

Sar_Bear wrote: »

Usually I have sympathy for people who are sick, except men who have a runny nose & think they are dying. Grow a pair!

What's the point in having two runny noses?

summerskin

Sar_Bear wrote: »

If I'm not able to do my job properly, I don't go to work.

Usually I have sympathy for people who are sick, except men who have a runny nose & think they are dying. Grow a pair!

I feel the same way about the women who complain every single fúcking month about period pain, and sometimes have the cheek to try and claim this is a valid reason for a sick day, and no, I'm not talking about Menorrhagia here.

FFS you've had years and years to either get used to it or do something about it.

My response is usually "The chemist down the road sells Feminax. Buy some.".

rob w

I usually work through anything, don't remember the last day I took off but have not been well the last few days and in agony with my back..........so woke up this morning and said "f*** it I'm staying in bed"!

Now I don't know what to do with myself, I'm never home during the daytime!

keith16

Sickness is for the weak! Ah no just joking. I'm very lucky and have only had to call in sick once in the last six years.

Rasheed

People at the two extremes piss me off.

The ones that will run to the doctor with every cough or loud fart and only relish in getting tests and tablets.

Then the ones that look down on others because they reckon they're harder for putting up with sickness or pain. An example would be a lad saying to another ' I'm on pain killers for a sprained ankle.'

'Ah Jesus, I broke all my ribs and six fingers in a match once, didn't bother me, I just walked it off and was back at work the next day.'

Pain and sickness are subjective but it's easy enough to spot a chancer.

Corruptedmorals

summerskin wrote: »

I feel the same way about the women who complain every single fúcking month about period pain, and sometimes have the cheek to try and claim this is a valid reason for a sick day, and no, I'm not talking about Menorrhagia here.

FFS you've had years and years to either get used to it or do something about it.

My response is usually "The chemist down the road sells Feminax. Buy some.".

Feminax is weak as. Your average person will do fine with it, but there are a lot whose pain is a lot worse and they get sick and faint from it. Solpadeine is fine for a while but it tends to not work as well as it used to. Many are on the pill purely to deaden the pain and to skip periods. I would not have any sympathy for mild cramps easily fixed with a weak painkiller..but it can be serious and debilitating, and it's a recognised disorder.

krudler

Tis all subjective really, but what bugs the living fcuk out of me is when people have a sniffle and call it "the flu". I've had the flu, trust me if you had it you wouldn't have made it into work to begin with, its horrid. Colds can be worked through, dose up on lemsip and vitamins and power through, the flu is something that will put you on your back for a while.

" *hachoo* ohhh, I've got an awful dose of the flu"
ehh, no you don't.

Wanderer2010

If you are genuinely sick then thats life, it happens and you cant help it. However, in work I see a lot of women (its mostly women!) milk the sick pay system to the max and why not, they get away with it. The slightest sniffle from them and you dont see them for days, claiming severe flu or joint pains. Then if they have a slight twinge at work they are off for a few weeks claiming muscular injuries etc :rolleyes: I blame the management in a lot of cases as they dont have the stones to confront prologed sick leave for frivolous reasons, they are too scared of the backlash from unions or health and safety.

However, men dont get the same deal. If a man goes out sick, its usually greeted with annoyance from the boss "How long will you be out for, you will have to do weekends or stay late to catch up when you get back" and there is very little sympathy. Its more a case of "man up and come back as soon as possible, theres work to be done!". Complete double standards :rolleyes:

SEPT 23 1989

I made the mistake of working through an illness a few years ago and ended up in hospital

never again

kwestfan08

Funny this thread should come up as in in my first sick day in about three years. Usually I'll go in unless it's something serious. Like another poster said if you have a cold just dose up on lemsip and whatnot and you should be grand.

But last night I became the fourth person in a house of five to get a vomiting bug. Plan to just see it out in bed till maybe Friday and I'll be grand.

saiint

kwestfan08 wrote: »

Funny this thread should come up as in in my first sick day in about three years. Usually I'll go in unless it's something serious. Like another poster said if you have a cold just dose up on lemsip and whatnot and you should be grand.

But last night I became the fourth person in a house of five to get a vomiting bug. Plan to just see it out in bed till maybe Friday and I'll be grand.

think im starting to get the vomiting bug meself
feel very sick today like throwing up :pac: but havnt yet
dont think i can cause im in work and i will be kilt if i throw up on their nice carpet :L

Conmaicne Mara

I don't live to work, if I'm sick I'll look after myself and go see the doctor if necessary.

Ghandee

The problem is we've evolved into a compensation driven society.

Last week, (12/12/12 :eek:) I was involved in a pretty serious enough car accident stopped in the middle of a busy road to make a right turn, when suddenly I heard the screeching of a car coming behind me, then BOOM, shunted me forward (into oncoming traffic) and left me on the opposite side of the road, facing the opposite direction.

I sat in my vehicle for about 10 secs or so, (shocked to say the least) before getting out, checking that I actually was ok, crossed the road to enquire on the third party, and assess their health and well being, luckily enough no one was seriously injured.

Anyway, after calling the Gards, and giving the details of what happened (the other parties car was a complete write off) I limped back to base with a damaged rear end vehicle.

From advise from my wife (nurse) I attended A&E and got my neck and shoulder x-rayed (to be sure no serious damage) I told the doctor my neck was stiff, my shoulder was stiff, but on a scale of 1-10 the pain was about 2, but my wife insisted i got seen to.

The doctor then went on to tell me exactly what pain I should expect to feel, and where I would feel it if a 'whip lash injury set in'

Colleagues and friends were quick to point out also that as I was not to blame Compo was mine for the taking, and some were even disgusted that I got up and went into work the next morning (the accident happened while I was on the road with work)

So to sum it up OP, too many folk feigning sickness puts doubt on the genuinely sick.

I'm ok and my kids and wife have me safe and sound for Christmas, that's compensation enough for me!

CruelCoin

Ush1 wrote: »

Are you the type to still go to work if you've got a touch of the ebola virus? Or a slight sniffle and your bed bound for days?

How about when people around you are sick? Are you sympathetic or an up and at them type?

Just got me thinking as I've fairly bad stomach cramps for two days and will never not go in to work or see the doctor.

I'm in the family business, and i refuse to be weaker than the staff.

For that reason, i've many times been working through something that others took a week or more off for.

"How about a nice big cup of man the **** up".

eviltwin

I have two kids, I can't be sick, I have to get on with it.

Kev_2012

I HATE being off sick. I was very bad with a cold or flu or something last week and I came in anyway, I know it's dodgy for others but my boss didn't tell me to go home thank god!

I generally hate being off Monday-Friday unless I have something planned. It's so boring.

Mr Benevolent

I used to stay home for every sniffle, I can't afford to now. However I do look after my health, I have chronic heartburn (GERD) and went for an endoscopy, all clear thank feck, and I had a 24hr heart monitor because my heart keeps skipping beats, it's a common problem but most people can't feel their heartbeat without putting a hand on their chest. So overall I ignore the minor stuff and only action the things that might have long term consequences.