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To call in sick?

23 replies

SootySweepIt · 01/01/2019 17:49

I have a seriously bad cold - coughing up green phlegm, shorter of breath than normal, have a temp etc. and really don't feel well enough to work tomorrow. I'm genuinely not well enough to work and if one of my team turned up like this I'd send them home.

However, I've just been off work on a sick note for two weeks due to a miscarriage and I feel like I can't ring in sick for this probably viral infection. What would you do? Would I be unreasonable to call in sick?

Thanks and nappy new year

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SootySweepIt · 01/01/2019 17:53

I should add I work in health care

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Pachyderm1 · 01/01/2019 17:55

YANBU - you’re sick, you shouldn’t go to work.

Hope you feel better soon.

subspace · 01/01/2019 17:55

If you're sick you're sick. They won't thank you for spreading that around the team.

The only exception I'd make is if you work for the nhs or somewhere that has that awful points system for being off sick.

So sorry to hear you've had a miscarriage to deal with too.

Freewheelin74 · 01/01/2019 17:56

If you're ill, you're ill. Don't worry. No decent employer should hold this against you regarding you recent absence. Sending best wishes to you and 💐 for your recent loss. X

Jackshouse · 01/01/2019 17:57

Miscarriage is not classified as a sickness for record keeping by HR - it’s pregnancy related.

The pregnancy will have lowered your immune system. If you are ill then take time off to allow yourself to get better.

FleshLiabilities · 01/01/2019 17:58

I guess it depends on how reasonable your work is about illness absence and whether you get sick pay?

Wolfiefan · 01/01/2019 17:58

I’m so sorry you’ve had a miscarriage. I had one a few years on Christmas Eve and it was horrid.
If you’re coughing up green stuff and finding it hard to breathe then I really wouldn’t go in.

RandomMess · 01/01/2019 18:00

Presumably you come into contact with unwell people in your setting... you are too ill aren't you?

Sorry about your miscarriage Thanks

HuntIdeas · 01/01/2019 18:15

I don’t understand all these comments about “don’t go in....unless your employer has a strict sickness process’. Or “don’t go in.... unless you won’t get sick pay”. Surely you’re either well enough to go in or your not, and only you can answer that one

calmsealife · 01/01/2019 18:17

I would go in then get sent home.

HuntIdeas · 01/01/2019 18:19

No. Don’t go in and get sent home. You’re an afult, not a kid at school. Why on earth would you go in if you knew you were too sick to work and wait for another adult (with presumably no more medical training than you) to send you home?!

HuntIdeas · 01/01/2019 18:20

...and infecting everyone on the process!

QuestionableMouse · 01/01/2019 18:22

Sounds like you're too ill to be at work and could be putting yourself at risk of complications like a chest infection.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Munchyseeds · 01/01/2019 18:25

Stay at home and rest...get betterFlowers

OhTheRoses · 01/01/2019 18:25

If you have already been off for two weeks and absence is continuous you will need a fit note. Call dr tomorrow and no, I don't think you are well enough for work.

I am sorry about your miscarriage. It takes time to heal emotionally and physically.Flowers

Mummyshark2019 · 01/01/2019 18:31

Take the time you need to recover. Sorry for your loss.

erykahb · 01/01/2019 18:38

Sorry for what you've just been through OP Thanks

I wouldn't go in. Get yourself better- you'll be no good to anybody poorly.

ShadyLady53 · 01/01/2019 18:56

Coughing up green phlegm usually means antibiotics are necessary and a GP would sign you off for about a week. I wouldn’t go in, I did with similar symptoms first year of uni and ended up with pneumonia. Sympathies for the miscarriage and hope you make a speedy recovery from the illness.

LavaLampLover · 01/01/2019 18:59

I'm so sorry for your loss. What is the earliest before your shift that you can contact someone? I'd explain what you described to us, let them know you obviously are concerned because you've just had two weeks because of your situation, but that you don't want to jeopardise the health of your patients? And ask what they would like you to do, ie get a doctors report etc

Fluffyears · 01/01/2019 19:01

I had similar symptoms and felt awful. I actually had flu with a chest infection. The gp told me to stay in bed and gave me anti-biopics forbthe chesr infevtion as thengreen phlegm was a sign of a bacterial infection. He was surprised I hadn’t asked for a home visit and had gone to him with flu. I tried to get a home visit but NHS24 refused point blank so I had to drive to an out of hours appointment in the next town (was Boxing Day so normal gp was shut) stay home and call nhs24 in case you need to see doctornfor anti-biotic.

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SootySweepIt · 01/01/2019 19:44

Thanks for your replies. I just feel so guilty, I know I haven't chosen to be ill, it's just really poorly timed. I'll see how I feel in the morning, if I'm not better will pack myself off to the GP. If I go in then go home it'll still be counted as continuous sick leave so no point doing that.

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HTKS · 01/01/2019 20:06

I would phone up say the miscarriage is ongoing so you’re going back to GP and then go back and get signed off for another week.

MudCity · 01/01/2019 20:09

I wouldn’t want to see an employee or colleague come into work if they are suffering from bad cold symptoms.

YANBU to stay at home. Hope you feel better soon.

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