Someone off sick and accepted Facebook friend request?

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Would this seem odd to you?

150 posts and I haven't seen the OP come back to their thread.

Unless of course, I missed them

Someone who accepts a colleague's friend request is IMO LESS likely to be faking their illness.

This is a person who is confident that their Facebook will not show them to be a liar.

I am off sick today. Should I not go clothes shopping?

Leslieknopefan some types of migraine don't always have a headache

Agree about migraines. I get the full range of migraine attacks from throbbing head, vomitting, numb down one side and slurred speech right down to ones that are just visual disturbance with no headache or anything.

I suspect the OP realises they've been a bit of a numpty.

If I'd called in sick and a friend request came from a colleague I'd think they might want to keep in contact while I'm off so I'd respond right away in case they needed some info from me.

IMO this is an example of why people feel the need to amplify their sickness/symptoms just to be sure employer can be sure they should be off sick. I know times i've been genuinely ill that has run into the weekend and then gone back to work on Monday i've felt the need to say 'I didn't leave the house/do anything over the weekend as I was still so unwell' when I felt much better - enough to go for a walk/do the food shopping etc, but daren't say that for fear they'd question a 'speedy' recovery. Not helpful if colleagues say to others' in your sickness absence 'X was on FB yesterday, can't be that sick'

I get migraines with absolutely no headache. Wouldnt be able to work as I feel completely spaced out, but I could probably post something online:

Apparently when you're sick Facebook is banned.

This makes me laugh...I work in HR and get staff telling me othete are off sick and 'checked in' at the pub...or they posted a photo at a party...or they went to the the shopping centre.

Sometimes it results in disciplinary action....but people off sick are not under house arrest.

Accepting a friend request doesnt require effort.

I will say though..that I was careful not to post much when off sick recently because of how I know people judge.

No. Perfectly possible to be on facebook when ill.

Maybe they called in sick PersianCatLady so can't possibly be mumsnetting...

I didn't know you couldn't go on Facebook if you're ill.

What about Netflix?

Not even remotely odd. WTF? Why should someone NOT be on Facebook just coz they're too ill to go to work? Tapping away on a keyboard and surfing the internet is not the same as being at work.

Now when someone is on Facebook when they are AT WORK......... well, THAT is a different matter altogether! That is definitely not acceptable. Anyone who was working for me, who was fucking around on the internet, would get a bollocking, and then warnings if it continued........

Please OP do confirm if ee are talking about THE facebook where to engage on it you need to be able to hold your phone and touch the screen a few times?

Unless said person called 8n sick with paralysis then I don't think you can use this to beat them wirh. You'll have to find something else for that.

Unless the workplace is reflective of a totalitarian regime, no not all. < This made me laugh!

IHaveBrilloHair but 😂 at What am I allowed to do?

I'd have lost the plot this last few days without my phone. Too ill to do more than stagger to the loo but easily able to click, when I wasn't delirious or asleep.

(And another migraine sufferer here who gets told I cannot possibly have a migraine because I can function through them, visual disturbances, confusion and slurring notwithstanding)

A few years ago I woke up feeling extremely sick. I could tell I had non-contagious a bacterial infection so went to the GP for antibiotics. My dad gave me a lift as I couldn't drive and both my parents wanted to take me to the hospital rather than the GP but I just desperately wanted to get my medication and go back to bed. The GP had other ideas and called an ambulance for me herself. I ended up in hospital for several days but after the first few hours of feeling like death, I was well enough to browse on my phone as long as I kept my feet higher than my head and didn't tangle up the multiple IVs sticking out of me.

The point is that even extremely sick people can be on Facebook. It's less exertion than doing a word search or reading a story.

Although, if you've lost your voice, ringing in yourself is pretty convincing! I did this once when I worked in a call centre. I croaked, "I don't think I'd be much use today!" Unsurprisingly, they agreed! 😂

Don't forget too, that people can post photos and tag you in them of days or nights out from ages ago. It doesn't mean you are at the actual event there and then just because a photo has been posted, the event might have been a week ago and the person has only just got around to posting the photos. It doesn't look good if you're off sick, but its certainly not concrete evidence by itself.

Ergh, OP, are you my bitchy boss?

Draylon Mon 05-Feb-18 20:27:03
See, FB isn't banned, it's just stupid to be seen on your feed if you're citing 'off, ill', too incapacitated to work.

Completely depends on the reason you are off work sick surely?