WIBU to call in sick tomorrow?

[emsyj]

I started a new job a couple of months ago. Things are going okay.

This weekend, DH and I have both been ill. I was up during the night last night throwing up and am still having regular, um, toilet visits (ahem). I haven't eaten anything since Friday aside from a bag of crisps yesterday lunchtime. I feel sort of shaky but probably would feel better if i had something to eat (can't stomach it yet).

Anyway, WIBU to take a day off sick tomorrow? I feel enormously guilty at the prospect of it but I feel really wiped out.

Thing is, I have been brought up that you go to work unless you are physically incapable of getting out of bed. I am out of bed today, although lying on the sofa.

Verdict please.

There is no way that you should be going to work.

I really wouldnt go in, that tummy bug seems to be rife at the moment and you'd still be contagious making it rifer! (esp with your pregnant colleague)

Spring my work are very very similar! Even though am pregnant and any related illness cannot be counted as sick am still afraid to take sick time! Madness. OP take a day, see how you go and don't eat much today! Hope u are both better soon.

You won't know how you feel till tomorrow so decide then. I would be very sceptical of any employee who had decided the day before that they wouldn't be well enough to go to work.

giraffes, that might be the case sometimes, but with D&V it takes time to work its way through your system and then you need time to recover from the effects; they last longer than the symptoms themselves.

In this case, I don't think the OP is intending to call work today and say she won't be in tomorrow; she just wants to make up her mind for herself today, and will then call in tomorrow.

i would phone in sick, as you are meant to be 48 hours clear, unless you risk bringing down the whole work force with a nasty D&V bug.