Why oh why do people turn up to work when they’re poorly?! 😡😡😡

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I hate it. My colleague turned up, whinged about how sick she felt for two hours, then threw up in the middle of the carpet and went home. She admitted she’d been feeling poorly all weekend. There’s no excuse for it

She should absolutely have stayed at home!!

Our managers are all lovely. I just don’t see there being an excuse for vomiting everywhere

She obviously didn't do it on purpose. Just because she felt a bit ill at the weekend she obviously thought it had passed. It's unfortunate that isn't how it panned out.

That’ll be it.

Presumably she’d felt a bit rough but hadn’t actually been sick. Very hard to call in feeling a bit nauseous.

NHS sick pay is good, but there’s also a culture that lends itself to not actually calling in sick unless you are actually dying.

Poor woman is probably mortified.

I had an office colleague who had been so unwell with their cold they were unable to WFH for 2/3 days first day “back at work” they turned up in the office coughing and sneezing full of snot and a temperature because they “were lonely”

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Is it a bug though? Could it be something she’s eaten, pregnancy etc?

If NHS I assume you use the Bradford score. Maybe she has hit a trigger and can’t afford not to try to be at work.

If its NHS you turn up if you're still breathing and hopefully survive the shift.

Bradford Factor and penalties for calling in sick.

That’s not what we’ve been told. Certainly not during cold and flu season!

We're not told it either.
Its been standard the last 35 years of my clinical career...

I have never gone from feeling sick to being sick in an instant. Does this really happen to people?

Do people not read the thread or OP updates?

She get sick pay was sick all weekend so knew she was to ill to work.

Because if I am ill again I have a meeting with HR and I quite like being able to afford to live by having a job.
Unfortunately I had three episodes of sickness (all hospital instay resulting) in the last year so I can't be ill again.
Unfortunately that means I'll be attending ill.

Difference between clinical and admin?

2 periods of sickness which can be 2 separate days would be hauled in to see a manager. You can be off for 6 months but that’s only classed as 1 period of sickness. Sickness policies are shite so people drag themselves in even when they shouldn’t for fear of being sacked

I guess OP could have asked why this particular woman came in sick to work.

People are just giving reasons why (other) people might.

NHS is notorious for looking like a caring employer while dragging people in for absence monitoring meetings. Based off what past colleagues say it doesn't sound like its changed much from my HR days there.

I've gone in feeling unwell before. I was employed by an agency at the time and wouldn't have got paid if I hadn't shown up, so off I went. A few hours later I could tell I was about to be sick, so got up and headed towards the toilets. I managed about 15 feet before my knees gave way and I collapsed. I wasn't sick on the floor thankfully, but a first aider helped me to the toilets. I got sent home after a vomiting session. I think I had food poisoning. I'm NHS admin now, so the sickness policy is much better and I'd stay at home if it happened nowadays!

You have an answer for everything isn’t there? I don’t know, OP, maybe she just loves vomiting in front of people and would rather come in and feel awful than be tucked up in bed in full pay. 🤷‍♀️

When I used to work I always felt really paranoid calling in sick and think they'd think i was lying even when I was genuinely ill.

I very much doubt she did it on purpose 🙄

I’d feel so bad if a colleague threw up at work, wouldn’t be on here bitching about them.

If I stayed off work every time I felt ill my attendance would be about 70% and ultimately I would get dismissed. I get a lot of migraines. Plus I have a cold right now but I’m still struggling in. In my mind I’m saving my sick days for when I am really ill. I think it’s normal to go in with a cold or migraine. Less so with a stomach bug but I bet they got worse over the course of the day.

Because they (often rightly) are concerned about the repercussions. It's not that difficult, surely?

Yes.