"Up all night" reason for calling in sick

[cherrypied]

If you call in sick with "been up all night", do you mean you are tired from being ill or still ill?

Had a few recently of staff calling in sick because they "have been up all night" anything from headache /cold / cough/ bad stomach etc minor illnesses.

They call in sick the next day as they are stating they have "been up all night". Am I I taking this too literally? Because to me it seems like calling in sick for being tired rather than unwell?

Even if haven't slept well and have been ill, by the time 6am comes around I will get up and go to work. I'd only call in sick if I was still ill. And have dragged my bones in shattered having been up with a cold or cough etc

My workplace is up one mountain and Im up a completely different one 🤣🤣

Theres just no direct bus routes so its a wierd route to get there

It doesnt really impact me, because I wfh, but when I do go into the office Im much more likely to go to London, because there is at least a direct train once I get to the station, rather than zig zagging across the country

And I took the job because it was remote during covid. But then like many work places they suddenly decided our remote contracts werent worth the paper they were written on, but at the moment they are allowing me to remain WFH because my local office is so remote.

They absolutely do not need to say that. That's what self certify means

You forget we are adults not children.
Adults?!

My workplace is up one mountain and I'm up a completely different one 🤣🤣

I'm actually not sure if you're being serious or not! 😆😂

Ha ha

Sorry boss - I've been up all night clubbing and drinking cocktails - too ill to come into work today.

Actually I do recall taking a sicky after doing that in my 20s. Life was different then!

@ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea

I really am being serious 🤣

I'm broadly with you (regardless of crap sleep / cold / general under the weather I will work), and some folks are super flaky.

That said, I can't function if that 'up all night' is literal. Better I bow out than try. Less than 4 hours I'm useless. Less than 6 I'm operating at half mental capacity. 🤷‍♀️

I live in a town. My town has a stupid arrangement of buses such that it takes 2 buses to even get to the station. If I wanted to commute to any of the other big towns within the region (very normal in my line of work, it's pretty difficult to just work within the local town), it would take 2 buses, a train and then potentially another 2 buses (and probably 1 hr 45 to 2 hr 20) to get to a workplace about 55 minutes away by car.

Reading too much in to it.

It's a turn of phrase that I and many others say when you have been up all night with an illness and are still poorly