Guilt after pulling a sicky

Melisandre121 · 03-02-2016 05:23PM #1

Have you ever pulled a sicky from work and really enjoyed your lie in, but halfway through the day you begin to feel really guilty and worried..

Or is that just me?

cml387 · 03-02-2016 05:25PM

Even better if you expand at length on Facebook about how guilty you feel. Hun.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 03-02-2016 05:28PM

I must say that in 36 years working I never pulled a sickie. Went to work when sick alright but never lied and feigned being sick just for a day off.

Luap · 03-02-2016 05:28PM

Andre, get your ass in asap.

Regards

Your Manager.

smash · 03-02-2016 05:29PM

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Have you ever pulled a sicky from work and really enjoyed your lie in, but halfway through the day you begin to feel really guilty and worried..

Or is that just me?

Yea but you feel better after you rub one out.

kfallon · 03-02-2016 05:30PM

Never! Rarely take them tbh and others in my job really take the piss when it comes to sick days!

I live close to work tho so it's tricky to take one

ScumLord · 03-02-2016 05:31PM

I thought this was going to be about avoiding STIs.

The Backwards Man · 03-02-2016 05:34PM

Live, horse, and you'll get oats.

The joys of self employment, no sick days.

akelly02 · 03-02-2016 05:37PM

Currently on a sicky. A real one though. With vomit coming out one end, and brown runny stuff the other, I think the only guilt I feel is the state of the jacks I leave it in for the rest of the family.

03-02-2016 05:37PM

Once upon a time I worked in a job I absolutely hated so took a few sick days alright. I didn't feel guilty because the relief at not having to be there trumped every other feeling.

Self employed now and am dying for the work to come my way. I love it so that helps

fleet_admiral · 03-02-2016 05:37PM

In ten years I have taken 2 sick days, and they werent 'Sickies' either. I couldnt bare sitting at home in my undergarments watching Jeremy Kyle and eating pot noodles

Duggy747 · 03-02-2016 05:38PM

I'd feel bad but then have a **** to cheer myself up.

realdanbreen · 03-02-2016 05:38PM

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Have you ever pulled a sicky from work and really enjoyed your lie in, but halfway through the day you begin to feel really guilty and worried..

Or is that just me?

Never.
When the day comes that your employer no longer needs you or is shutting up shop and relocating to asia, there will be no guilt on their side. In fact experience tells me that they will do all in their power to give as little as possible in redundancy. So next time if I was you I would go for a week or two AWOL.

Caliden · 03-02-2016 05:39PM

Took a sickie a few months ago purely because I just didn't feel like going in to work. Last time I was sick was literally 12 months before that so I was actually quite smug taking it knowing that I hadn't been sick in over a year.

Tom_Barry · 03-02-2016 05:42PM

No never, in my job its bad form as there's alot of us relying on eachother and if we're one down it shags the routine up. Not to say I havent fantasized about it..

Penn · 03-02-2016 05:43PM

Never pulled a sickie without being sick, and even then in about 13 years of working, only called in sick once. Have been absolutely dying sometimes, but still went in to work if I was able.

In fairness though, with where I work, taking a sick day means I'd be flat out busy for the next three days after, or doing unpaid overtime to try and catch up. So not much point.

TG1 · 03-02-2016 05:47PM

Penn wrote: »

In fairness though, with where I work, taking a sick day means I'd be flat out busy for the next three days after, or doing unpaid overtime to try and catch up. So not much point.

This has always been the case in my roles as well, I'm currently coming to the end of a genuine absence that went on a long time and I am actually dreading going back to work. I know there will be so much catch up to do... It's never worth it for me to pull a sickie, even when I'm genuinely out I try to do a few hours at home when I can to stay on top of the heap of work!

Colser · 03-02-2016 05:48PM

Ive never done it but I consider doing it most mornings,Im grand then once Im out of the bed. I hate getting up rather than hate going to work.

Melisandre121 · 03-02-2016 05:52PM

Colser wrote: »

Ive never done it but I consider doing it most mornings,Im grand then once Im out of the bed. I hate getting up rather than hate going to work.

This is my problem exactly!

finglashoop · 03-02-2016 05:53PM

I usually only go sick when i am well enough to enjoy the time off.

Guilt? No chance.

03-02-2016 05:56PM

I can work from home if I want so there is no point, the deadlines would still be there anyway so I'd just be under more pressure later

pickarooney · 03-02-2016 05:59PM

I don't know how people can afford to pull sickies. Great, you're pulling a fast one on your boss and losing a couple of hundred quid pay.

kfallon · 03-02-2016 06:02PM

pickarooney wrote: »

I don't know how people can afford to pull sickies. Great, you're pulling a fast one on your boss and losing a couple of hundred quid pay.

Eh, no!

Mesrine65 · 03-02-2016 06:39PM

If I'm sick I have no problem calling my employer & informing them.

It costs me €55 to see my GP, I'm hardly going to go to the trouble/expense of a GP visit in order to skive off work for a day.

I have gone in sick to work & got no thanks for it plus I'm putting my colleagues at risk of infection.

I admire the "I haven't had a sick day in 13 years" brigade, but I'm not going to be a martyr to the job & attend if I'm ill...where's the point in that?

FTA69 · 03-02-2016 06:41PM

Absolutely hate people going off sick when they don't need to. Any decent workplace should have a good sickness policy that looks after people when they need help and doesn't victimise people for falling ill. And for the vast majority of people, that suits them. However there is always a small minority of p*ss-takers and lying bastards who will make this difficult for everyone by scamming off so they can stay in bed or wing an extra holiday thus undermining the hard-won sickness policy that people sometimes genuinely need, often in very distressing circumstances.

FTA69 · 03-02-2016 06:45PM

Mesrine65 wrote: »

If I'm sick I have no problem calling my employer & informing them.

It costs me €55 to see my GP, I'm hardly going to go to the trouble/expense of a GP visit in order to skive off work for a day.

I have gone in sick to work & got no thanks for it plus I'm putting my colleagues at risk of infection.

I admire the "I haven't had a sick day in 13 years" brigade, but I'm not going to be a martyr to the job & attend if I'm ill...where's the point in that?

That's it, if you're sick then you're sick and nobody should have any problem taking time off if they're properly ill. There is nothing sillier than people coming in when seriously sick and I find English work environments to be fairly quick when telling people to go home. I've seen people come to work with the proper flu, puking and sweating and shivering and most of the time it's nearly a form of arselicking in order to prove how dedicated they are rather than any sort of real stoicism.

etoughguy · 03-02-2016 07:02PM

OP have a beer be grand the guilt will dissolve. Don't be posting stuff online after 8 beers though

Melisandre121 · 03-02-2016 10:56PM

FTA69 wrote: »

Absolutely hate people going off sick when they don't need to. Any decent workplace should have a good sickness policy that looks after people when they need help and doesn't victimise people for falling ill. And for the vast majority of people, that suits them. However there is always a small minority of p*ss-takers and lying bastards who will make this difficult for everyone by scamming off so they can stay in bed or wing an extra holiday thus undermining the hard-won sickness policy that people sometimes genuinely need, often in very distressing circumstances.

Ah calm down would you

Ruu · 03-02-2016 10:57PM

See me in the office tomorrow to explain yourself! :mad::mad::mad:

Azalea · 03-02-2016 11:09PM

Mesrine65 wrote: »

I admire the "I haven't had a sick day in 13 years" brigade, but I'm not going to be a martyr to the job & attend if I'm ill...where's the point in that?

Don't they mean (on this thread anyway) that they have never pretended to be sick rather than never been genuinely off sick though?

The one time I did phone in sick for a day when I wasn't sick was years ago when I'd had me heart broken

I was awake crying all night so I wasn't exactly well, in fairness. But by afternoon, I realised I would have been better off going in, to take my mind off it.

03-02-2016 11:12PM

I've never "pulled a sickie". Called in sick alright when I was actually sick..twice! Vomiting bugs. Don't really get sick other than the vomiting bug every 2-3 years.

Lots of people I know call in sick when they have a cold, sure God love them.

Guilt after pulling a sicky

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