To be an adult but still dread phoning in sick?

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I hate it! I never stay off unless I’m genuinely ill but I still get butterflies before I ring work & have to pluck up the courage. Even when I was at college, I used to get my Mum to do it for me sometimes. Also hate having to ring in every day to keep them updated. I don’t know what I have at the mo but it can respectfully do one!

I send a text i am however only ever off sick if I've been hit by a proverbial truck

We're not allowed to text. So I get my DH to phone in

YANBU
I hate it too! and talking on the phone in general

I always go in unless I’m vomiting sick, I have no issues with calling in sick as trey know if I do, I’m very unwell. Don’t honestly see the issue, or why you’d get someone else to call for you. Only time this has been done for me was when I was unconscious after surgery for a broken ankle and my mum called to say I’d call in when I came round

My line manager has reiterated the policy that we must phone her at home on on her personal mobile to report absences. Until now i’ve called the office (i work in a school).

I would never ever want to do that so I guess i’m going in sick from now on

Me too I always feel really guilty, I don't know why! Our work has introduced a third party company that you have to ring which to me makes it worse talking to a stranger about having cold.

Im actually fine ringing for me, i would prefer it if someone else did it for me, texing/email so much better!

I hate ringing for other people. A few years ago my mum was ill and got took to hospital, I had to ring her work and tell them she wouldn't be in. Luckily I know her boss so as soon as I said it's pinkie pie, purple pies daughter she was fine, still hated it cos I got all tongue tied and I'm sure she was just being nice to get me off the phone lol

I hate ringing school and telling them when my DD is ill cos I feel like they never believe me and I end up blabbering on and then totally forget what I'm trying to say.

I called in sick to my work last year and it took me an hour to get through!

The other thing that’s playing on my mind now is how the girls on customer services sound when I ring to be put through to a supervisor/Manager - they all know me but nobody has said “ Oh dear” or anything when I’ve said I’m poorly & they have just transferred me. Hopefully it’s just because they’re busy. I’ve worked there nearly 3 months & get on well with the other staff. I thought at least they would be a bit sympathetic on the phone. I don’t work in their department so me being off isn’t affecting them. I do tend to overthink stuff like this!

I always feel terrible like I’ve let people down.

But I also don’t like speaking to work when I feel so useless and vulnerable. I’m normally very together and on top of things. If they ask what I’ve got needing done while I’m off I feel all “erm don’t know going to vom can’t think brain not functioning arghh....”

I'd interpret that as them being mindful of boundaries. Even if they just said "oh dear", you might feel pressured to give them more information than you really want to. Besides, the last thing you need when ringing in sick is to have to stop to have a conversation with Customer Services on your way to speaking to your manager.

YANBU, I hate it too, luckily my last two jobs I could just text instead of call.

I hate ringing school and telling them when my DD is ill

I hate doing that too, especially as I also have to ring the kitchen as she has gluten free lunch so need to cancel her lunch.

The last company I worked for, we had to phone in sick directly to the manager. We weren't allowed to text or get someone else to call on our behalf. It was awful as the one and only time I was sick, they were clamping down as they were going through a high level of absences through sickness so I got the third degree. As they were clamping down, everybody was treated suspiciously so people would get comments like "hmmm but you seemed fine yesterday!" I worked in an open plan office and hated the fact that my sickness was being broadcast to the rest of the team as it was easy to overhear the managers half of the conversation.

They also introduced people off sick receiving a call at home at some random point throughout the day from the manager's manager to see how we were feeling and whether we would feel up to coming in mid shift. Sod's law, the time I got my phone call at home, I had that morning managed to get an appointment at the doctors and as it was in the days before mobile phones came along, when they rang my landline there was no answer so I returned from the doctors to a curt message on my home answerphone. I remember spending the rest of the day totally worried sick.

Luckily I explained myself during my return to work interview but whether they believed me, I'll never know.

We're lucky to have a team within a teamWhatsapp group. So I alert my immediate team and my boss that way, unless there's something more serious going on in which case I would email my boss. I can work at home and muddle through most stuff though so have been known to do some work, log off and sleep then appear again later. Usually only raging temperature or tiredness would stop me from being able to work. I figure if I'm not delegating my horse and mucking out to someone then I should be working!

I work in a call centre, if a colleague called in sick on our normal line (which is not correct process) I wouldn’t comment at all unless it was someone I was very friendly with, id find a manager to take the call. It’s not personal, it’s just respecting boundaries

I hate it. There was a place i worked where if you was sick for a week you had to call in sick every single day, and they would shout at you. They did it to make people not want to call in sick. The nerves of calling in used to make me feel more sick.
It's shit but they have a certain sick rate a company normally has to try and follow.
I've never known anyone be nice when I've called in sick. I had v&d and worked in a food place, and they still ask me if I can come in and just put me in an area closer to the toilet because they were already short staffed. Lovely.