Who is there to spot you are sick?

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Just thought DS moves out in Feb so I then live alone.
I talk to family members by phone every couple of weeks.
If I was very sick what happens?
Work is an everyday thing, would I be wrong to leave a key to my home at work so if I didn't call in sick and wasn't contactable by phone they could check on me if they felt concerned, or is that over and above the dirt of a workplace?

Dirt? Concern

I'm the same but never really thought about it. My last job would send someone round if you didn't turn up and weren't able to be contacted

I think it would be odd to leave a key at work and expect them to check up on you, unless it's a very close workplace and you are essentially friends anyway.

I think ur overthinking it, a lot of people live alone.. unless u have any medical issues it's highly unlikely that u will just keel over..

Is your DS moving far away? Can you set up a system with him and your workplace, where if you don't show up for work, they will contact him and he will have a key to go around and check on you? Most of the larger companies I've worked for have asked for an emergency contact.

We are quite close, and if someone is totally non contact, it would raise concerns if they were totally alone.
We were worried previously about a non contact someone with a known partner until partner made contact

Think it would be strange to leave a key at work, also they might not allow it, I know ours wouldn't for insurance/not wanting to be responsible for the key type issues.

Will ds be keeping in contact when he moves out?

No chance, my Ds will be in aus, my parents over 400 miles away

Do you have a local friend who could hold a key and be your emergency contact at work?

Point is my emergency contacts will be hours away +
If I needed help I'm sure they would do it as friends individually, so to have it as a group thing no one feels personally responsible

Have a friend, but trust my work team as a collective more

I think you are overthinking this. If you didn't turn up at work they would keep trying to contact you and most likely end up calling the police if they couldn't.

I don't rra

I actually think they would come to my door first before trying the police so would a key save the broken door problem?

I live alone. I have a key safe box on side of house. I also have a friend who I exchange what’s app with every morning. Often just a friendly good morning and wish each other a good day, but share if we are feeling poorly or sad etc

I too think you are over reacting to your ds moving.
If you are 'sick' then you would phone someone.

It is unlikely you are suddenly going to be struck down so immobile that you can't drag yourself to the door, and, if you did get to that state, then the emergency services breaking in would be the least of your worries.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for leaving a key with a neighbour for when you lock yourself out, but the whole 'my ds moving away / leaving key with work colleagues in case I'm sick' is very odd thinking.

Perhaps I am over reacting, never lived alone before with no family within 30min drive to me.

I don't really understand why it needs to be a collective thing. Surely the point of a friendship or any relationship is you are personally responsable. Friendshios are personal things, even if you have a group of friends everyones relationship to and witj each other within that group will be different.

Overreacting a bit here OP. By all means leave a key with your neighbours. I do that but only in case I lock myself out or something like that.

Naught, maybe to you but our team relationship is is one is down, we work together to pull them up

Couldn't trust my neighbors to not rob me blind whilst I'm at work!

Do you have a big enough house to accommodate a lodger without the pair of you falling over eachother? Just a thought.

No to the lodger, it idea of the key at work is the share of friendship responsibility between my friends - not one has the total responsibility on them

Naught, maybe to you but our team relationship is is one is down, we work together to pull them up

Yes so is most work teams, but even in work teams sone people are closer to each other. Also this would ge at work. I work with a very collectife work team, at work we know we can rely on each other, i've even gad the CEO sitting in the kitchen making me a drink after being left in tears over something, we went to a colluage's funeral together, i went in to work on my birthday to be met with cake and a card on my desk. Yep great work team. As collective. Even so i'm much closer to my collagues that work on the next desk to me, and members of my specific team. Apart from a few people i know very little of their life outside work, they know very little of mine. We pull together at work, yep. Do exactly what you say. I bet even in your team there are people closer to each other i bet your closer to some colleagues than others, of course you are. Everyones relationship with each other is diffetent they must be because not every one is the same

Also i wasnt talking about work teams i was talking about friendships and relayionships on a personal level. Ie friends and family. Have you never had a best friend who your closer to than any of your other friends, as you gave a son i presume at some point there was a partner who you were closer than your other.

You dobt feel the same way about all your friends do you??

Naught, your interpretation is understandable, but closeness is total with my team (see post love you)