To feel so guilty taking time off work sick

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I have a chesty virus or an infection and constantly coughing, I’m also run down so I can’t really work without spluttering everywhere plus I just feel so exhausted.

but I can’t help feeling so incredibly guilty, I’ve got a high workload as work in a pressured role and there’s no resilience which is rubbish and I’m having to miss important meetings today and no one else can do it so they’ve had to be rescheduled.

There’s never a good time to be off as if it’s not this is something else just the nature of my job but I can’t shift this feeling of anxiety.
should I have just sucked it up and worked even though I feel unwell? I don’t take much time off and usually work if I’m feeling crap but I just couldn’t do it today, just so worried.

Yes, you should have worked. Shareholder profit is more important than your wellbeing. Shame on you.

If companies were really interested in their employees and their work output they’d be doing more things to help prevent illness in the first place. Which would increase their output/profit.

I'm also off work with a chesty cough and all round feeling shit. I'd feel far more guilty if I went to work sick, couldn't do my work properly and made other people sick as well. Don't sweat it.

That doesn't sound a very healthy work environment really

Yeah this 🤣

Seiously though are you going to look back at your life on your death bed and think I wish I worked more! And took less sick days 🙈

False economy, you dont go off sick, you push ahead - log on when you're ill, return when you're not ready and fully recovered and you're at higher risk of recurring illness/extending illness times. If you're ill - be off, if you got hit by a bus & killed they would replace you in a heartbeat. Look after your own health.

Look after your health, let go of the guilt and focus on your wellbeing. Hope you and @WillJeSuis feel better soon 💐

Thanks!

You're just a number that'll be replaced immediately if something really terrible happened - be sensible about your health, don't take the piss and look after yourself when you're really ill.