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Poll:/Discussion: Do You Come To Work Sick?
If so, WHY?
& what are your limits of being "sick enough" to stay home?
I'm not sick right now, but I am annoyed at a CW that has come into work sick all week when the flu is going around. I'm going on vacation next week. If I get sick, I'm going to be PISSED.
Re: Poll:/Discussion: Do You Come To Work Sick?
This doesn't apply to my current job, but in the past when I worked in restaurants, yes I have. Is that gross? Absolutely. Unfortunately, any restaurant I've worked in would consider it a no call/no show if you called in sick but didn't have a doctor's note.
It didn't really make much sense since I would estimate that the majority of people who work in restaurants don't have health insurance and don't want to go see/pay a doctor for a cold. Plus, all you'd do was get everyone else sick (not to mention that you were serving food). My manager at Outback was a huge *** about this.
On another note, I was involved in the beginnings of a research study at school examining the benefits of encouraging employees to stay home when sick (even if sick days don't apply) versus forcing them to come in.
At my restaurant job in college, my bosses were pretty good about it not being a big deal if you were genuinely sick. Now if they knew you were out the night before & you're calling in hungover? Yeah they were pissed.
I hate when people come to work sick because I don't want them to get me sick... so I try to extend the same courtesy.
If I have a cold I will come to work. The flu HELL NO.
I think if more companies offered actual sick time instead of PTO employees would be more willing to call in sick. PTO is for vacations in my opinion. My previous company offered sick days and if you didn't use them you were paid out 50% on your January paycheck. I believe this is a good way to deter people from using them when they aren't really sick.
It depends on how sick I am. If I have a cold, yeah I'll come in and stay to myself. If I'm throwing up, hellz to the no. And if I have anything contagious (other than a cold), like bronchitis or the flu or something, I would definitely stay home.
I really think this falls on the employer more than the employee a lot of time. If an employee feels like they'll get in trouble or it'll look bad if they call out, they suck it up and come in. In our job, not as much, but in other jobs, people have to pick up your slack when you call out, so I think people don't want that and just come in anyway.
I do think it's shiitty to come to work and get everyone else sick, but I think employers need to recognize this and send sick people home.
Ditto PPs. A cold, yes usually. Unless it's really bad. And then I sequester myself into my cube and don't touch anything else.
Once it gets past a normal cold and if I have any fever, I stay home.
Dingdingding.
I don't ever call in sick because I only get 10 vacation days and zero sick days per year. I refuse to waste my vacation time. If my employer sees how sick I am and tells me to go home, well I'd love to... but I think it's b/s that I don't get sick days. I also have my own office, bathroom, and little to no interaction with other employees, so it's not likely I'd get anyone else sick.
My boss always knew what we were doing. I swear she spied on us. Nobody could pull the "sick" excuse if they were hungover.
I completely agree about people coming to work sick. Unfortunately, when I was in college, I couldn't afford to lose my job so I would come in.
At my nannying job, I came in with a fever because there is literally no back up. They knew I was sick, but the rational is that its been incubating for at least a week, and I've already exposed LO to the germs. That was the same rationale at my old daycare before it went corporate.
I wish more people understood this. I will go to work with a cold, but will stay home if I have a fever. I'm a whimp and will stay home if I am puking or major stomach issues.
If I felt like I was germing up the place, no. My boss was extremely paranoid and would lock himself in his office if I even remotely sounded sick. Of course he would come sick himself. So, all I had to do was email him and tell him I was hacking up a lung or feverish and he would just be like, 'good riddance.'
If I was clearly on the mend though but still sniffling or something, then yes.