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To not go to work today?

52 replies

fairynick · 03/01/2020 07:55

To start with I don’t have an important job. I work in an outbound sales position in a call centre so won’t necessarily be missed.
Only came back yesterday from Christmas and have had a really shitty cold over the Christmas period. I’m in no way too ill to go to work but been up all night tossing and turning and blowing my nose.
Am I an awful person to pull a sickie? I just really can’t be bothered and feel rubbish? How often has anyone pulled a sickie? Last time I did was a couple of years ago when I was hungover Grin

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notsohippychick · 03/01/2020 07:57

Not sure really, but it always looks a bit suspect when people are sick after Xmas and New Year.

Ilikewinter · 03/01/2020 08:05

Yes you are an awful person, people like you who 'cant be arsed' make the day worse for everyone else who then have to worked that bit harder to cover your jobs. I imagine you aren't the only person in your workplace who cant be arsed to go into day, and i bet a lot of your colleagues have also suffered with cold and flu over christmas.

SapphosRock · 03/01/2020 08:08

Bit harsh Ilikewinter!

If it's a one off I don't really see the harm.

FamilyOfAliens · 03/01/2020 08:11

You have a cold in winter and you want to call in sick?

PumpkinPie2016 · 03/01/2020 08:12

Personally, I would go in. We all have days where we would rather not but sometimes, you just have to get on with it.

Take some paracetamol/lempsip and go to work.

It's Fri - are you off at the weekend?

FamilyOfAliens · 03/01/2020 08:12

And since you asked, I’ve had one day off sick in eight years.

IceCreamAndCandyfloss · 03/01/2020 08:13

I’d go in but then I wouldn’t have taken a day off for a hangover either.

Sick days cost everyone, employers tighten up policies when people take advantage and others have to pick up the slack.

Sparklybaublefest · 03/01/2020 08:15

that is not a question for an aibu forum, the answers will be totally split

Pepperama · 03/01/2020 08:16

Wouldn’t occur to me to not go in because I didn’t feel like it. Sick pay is for when you’re too ill to work

LIZS · 03/01/2020 08:17

Sounds flaky. If you make a habit of it or have not been there long you may ultimately lose your job.

midsummabreak · 03/01/2020 08:17

You are unwell, best place for you is home ensuring a full recovery from the virus, not going to work to cough and splutter it around

Salad01 · 03/01/2020 08:18

God if u get paid take a week hun once in eight yrs your hardly slacking off!

Zampa · 03/01/2020 08:21

Presumably, when you were in work yesterday, people will have noticed your cold. Therefore, I can't imagine anyone will be surprised if you're off today. You're not pulling a sickie - you're sick.

I hate this attitude of must struggle in all costs. Working through illness delays recovery, spreads germs to your colleagues and generally does no-one any favours.

FamilyOfAliens · 03/01/2020 08:23

God if u get paid take a week hun once in eight yrs your hardly slacking off!

That was me, not the OP Confused

GiveHerHellFromUs · 03/01/2020 08:26

You're taking the piss and are the reason people feel guilty when they're genuinely ill, because people suspect they're just doing what you're doing.

You're also the reason companies have shit sickness policies, because companies don't know whether their staff are actually loyal or not.

Your colleagues will also know that you weren't really that ill yesterday.

bookishtartlet · 03/01/2020 08:26

The responses on here...

Phone in sick. Enjoy a day to rest up. Literally no one will notice in a call centre. Totally soul destroying job, even worse when you can't be arsed.

FamilyOfAliens · 03/01/2020 08:28

“I just really can't bothered”

“To start with, I don’t have an important job”.

Neither will you ever have, OP, unless you stop trying to dress up laziness as illness.

Mumdiva99 · 03/01/2020 08:29

The reason I wouldn't take a day when I didn't really need it is because you never know what's around the corner. Next week or the week after you might get really poorly.....

However, if you are genuinely unwell then stay at home.

LoveFromAfrica · 03/01/2020 08:31

I did this a lot in my outbound call centre job. Used childcare as an excuse. Time to get a new job.

missfliss · 03/01/2020 08:32

If you are sick and feel too ill to work then it isn't a sickie.

Some people love to be martyrs and take a perverse pleasure in struggling in with illness and making their colleagues poorly - I have asthma and do not appreciate the exposure to their respiratory illnesses....

FFS

LoveFromAfrica · 03/01/2020 08:32

I dont think OP is lazy. Maybe she realises that she can do better than working in a call centre for peanuts.

L0bstersLass · 03/01/2020 08:32

You should go in. And you know you should go in.

Palaver1 · 03/01/2020 08:33

Read her post didnt think she went in yesterday and was not the poster who wrote she had not takrn a sickie in 8 years.
I think its time to look for another job you clearly are no longer motivated.
Shes well enough she says but didnt sleep enough.
The dominoe effect this has is unbelievable at times whrn people do this at my place of work.
If you are ill stay at home depending on what you call an illness though.

FamilyOfAliens · 03/01/2020 08:35

I dont think OP is lazy. Maybe she realises that she can do better than working in a call centre for peanuts.

What, even though she posted that she “can’t be bothered” to go in?

loobyloo1234 · 03/01/2020 08:35

I just really can’t be bothered

YABU. Lazy

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