Guilt after pulling a sicky

speedboatchase · 04-02-2016 10:58AM

Last time I tried to pull a sicky was about 8 years ago, working in retail. Went with the whole 'pretend you have diarrhoea so that no-one asks any follow-up questions' angle. Stumbled over the words, so the manager knew I was chancing it, and forcefully told me to come in. Cue all my colleagues starng at me like I'd been ****ting myself all morning.

Haven't tried one since. I'm too bad at lying over the phone.

TheDoc · 04-02-2016 11:16AM

Jon Mango Tugboat wrote: »

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.

Same here. Although I've had the sector benefit of working from home a number of years now, so when I'm ill I can just work from home. So technically havn't even had a sick day in like 4 years.

04-02-2016 11:17AM

LeBash wrote: »

I took a half day off with kidney stones in the last 5 years. It's nice to stay in bed but once you hit 10 you realise working day off at home is sh1t and there is nothing on tv

This is why god has blessed us with Netflix and Video games.

I don't think I've ever taken a sick day where there wasn't something wrong with me but there were definitely some days a few years back where I'd ham it up, mainly when I had both school and work so got the double whammy

Graces7 · 04-02-2016 01:01PM

[Did this in my 20s for a driving test as could not get a Saturday test. Everyone knew what I had done even though I waited until after the weekend to drive to school.. Still hate that it was needed! NB That was nearly 50 years ago! Adding that I was refused a morning off for the test and that I lived nearly 30 miles away and had a long and complicated journey, I would gladly have worked overtime but in teaching that does not apply of course. Many years later I was off very sick with a bad flu ( different school) and they arrived at my door with three boxes of exam papers to mark ..

scdublin · 04-02-2016 01:09PM

Haven't taken a fake sickie or a real one either...I'm one of those struggle through it type of people even when I'm in bits.

arayess · 04-02-2016 01:24PM

Jon Mango Tugboat wrote: »

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.

went into work sick...:rolleyes:

I hate people like you , martyrs for the cause, brown nosing and showing how great and dedicated they are...
while infecting everybody else with coughing , sneezing and the rest.

I know you'll probably retort and say you were self employed by the point stands.

04-02-2016 02:06PM

arayess wrote: »

went into work sick...:rolleyes:

I hate people like you , martyrs for the cause, brown nosing and showing how great and dedicated they are...
while infecting everybody else with coughing , sneezing and the rest.

I know you'll probably retort and say you were self employed by the point stands.

1. You don't know if he mentioned his illness at all, much less that he brown nosed about it.

2. You seem to assume that any illness he had manifested itself in coughing and sneezing. Not all illnesses are colds.

The One Doctor · 04-02-2016 02:16PM

Jon Mango Tugboat wrote: »

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.

Pffft. Unless you're self employed or very highly paid that's ridiculous.

kfallon · 04-02-2016 02:20PM

The One Doctor wrote: »

Pffft. Unless you're self employed or very highly paid that's ridiculous.

The Doctor has spoken, that's good enough for me!

arayess · 04-02-2016 02:26PM

Deleted User wrote: »

1. You don't know if he mentioned his illness at all, much less that he brown nosed about it.

2. You seem to assume that any illness he had manifested itself in coughing and sneezing. Not all illnesses are colds.

however going to work while ill is brown-nosing or whatever you want to call it. That's what going to work when sick is , showing over to them all how dedicated you are to the cause. that's brown-nosing.

Not even AVB would try that

It can also (and I've seen this during my brief time in Citi) set the standard where somebody else is looked down upon for ringing in sick because marytr-boy came in before so sick that his head fell off...well if he can do it so can you...blah blah blah

not all illnesses are colds - but my point is fair and i covered myself by saying "the rest " cos it's quite simple if you are sick , stay away....
you are mostly useless if you are sick anyway..

Warper · 04-02-2016 02:30PM

If you take one always take 2. I take 2 * 2 days a year and have no guilt whatsoever in doing so.

Maximus Alexander · 04-02-2016 02:33PM

When I want a day off I take annual leave.

Raging_Ninja · 04-02-2016 02:34PM

I have twice (both times in the same company).

Things were (and from all accounts still are) going badly in the company, a startup. Pay was late almost constantly, often by a couple of days but on two occasions the pay had been late by almost 3 weeks. I was lying in bed and said "fúckit I'm not going in", so gave myself a migraine.

The second time was a couple of weeks after the sickie above. I was interviewing for a job on short notice (got the job). The funniest thing is all the guys except the boss knew what I was doing and covered for me when an emergency came up and the boss wanted to send my work laptop out to my flat.

Into The Blue · 04-02-2016 02:36PM

arayess wrote: »

went into work sick...:rolleyes:

I hate people like you , martyrs for the cause, brown nosing and showing how great and dedicated they are...
while infecting everybody else with coughing , sneezing and the rest.

I know you'll probably retort and say you were self employed by the point stands.

I used to think they were a nuisance till i had kids, now i activity hate the lick arses. Every time they cough/sneeze/moan through their poxy blocked noise at a meeting I'm hating the fact I'm going to pass it on at home.

kfallon · 04-02-2016 02:41PM

Did it once before in an old job! Came in as I was supposed to on the early shift on a Friday, bags packed to get the bus home straight after work, nice one!

One of the Group Managers comes in about midday, says that both me and my Manager can't be on the early shift, one of us will have to stay to do the late shift. His reason being that a manager who had been there 3 months wasn't ready to be left on her own - I wasn't even a supervisor at that stage :rolleyes:

Of course I got the shítty end of the stick, had to go back to the gaff here in Dublin, drag me bag with me, to come back in again at 6pm to stay til 11pm. Was fookin' raging as it meant I couldn't go home til Saturday morning.

Needless to say I wasn't in work the following Friday!

Boom_Bap · 04-02-2016 02:41PM

I never take sickies.

But, if I am sick, when I'm gettin better, well to be about 90% functional, I will always take another day until I'm 100%. I found that going back to work made me feel worse again and I would need to struggle through to the next weekend to sort myself out.

When I was in my 20's, I would work through sickness without any issues. F*ck, I'd even work, play a football match and go for pints if I was sick.

Mesrine65 · 04-02-2016 02:42PM

arayess wrote: »

Not even AVB would try that

AVB doesn't get sick FFS :eek:

Dining on Ambrosia of the Gods & fine wines, while slumbering in a gilt hermetically sealed hyperbaric chamber see's to that arayess

sbsquarepants · 04-02-2016 02:58PM

I work in a big company, but I'm the only one who does my job. If I'm not in, the work is just waiting for me tomorrow - it's just not worth the hassle to take sickies. A day watching Jeremy Kyle followed by a week of trying to catch up, no thanks.
If I ever get cover however, I can feel a guilt free coma coming on!:D

Kivaro · 04-02-2016 04:01PM

I've never felt guilty after pulling a sticky.
It's completely natural.

westcoast66 · 04-02-2016 06:11PM

We have contractors (paid per day) and full time staff here. The contractors are hardly ever sick while the full timers are always off sick! In fact I have had lads move from contracting to full time and then they get sick too!

Mesrine65 · 04-02-2016 06:13PM

What is this guilt thing you speak of OP?

Guilt after pulling a sicky

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