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AIBU?

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To call in sick even though I could probably do my job?

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bloodysuperflu · 16/12/2025 17:11

I’ve got one of these winter bugs going around. Sniffly nose, sore throat, I’m going hot then cold (I don’t think I have a fever though as I very rarely get them), head feels like it’s full of cotton wool, knackered. It’s not the flu or anything like that, just a winter bug.

I can do my job. But very selfishly I want a day in the warm resting so that I can get rid of this before Christmas. AIBU to play it up a little in the morning and call in?

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bellalou1234 · 16/12/2025 17:18

Do it
you’ll pass bugs on to colleagues

HoskinsChoice · 16/12/2025 17:17

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