Do You Go to Work when You're Sick?

Hello wondericequeen, Aha, this is an interesting question for me to answer. I don't like to fall sick but I love to stay at home. (If you happened to read about how I wish to be a full time housewife ...somewhere here... he he he) Whenever I feel sick, I will call the office to tell them that I am taking my medical leave. Unfortunately, I seldom get sick! Even if I get sick, I don't like to see the doctor and for that reason, I always call up my doctor friend to get a sick leave from her clinic (as I can go there anytime that I wish..he he he ..don't spread the news ok!) Well, I know what you are going to say..I am bad..really! *laughs* I hope my 'wish' will come true next year!

it really depends on how sick I am. If I am vomiting I will stay home otherwise i go to work and if i am too sick the boss will tell me to go home. I am sorry that you are sick and I hope you feel better soon.

Well, I must say that i have never ever missed a working day due to any illness. But I wouldn't stay at home unless the sickness or injury didn't let me do my job properly, or was too serious, or something like that. If it's just something not that serious, i would try to go to work.

I am not feeling well right now, but just like you I'm sutting here at my office chair and trying to finish some works. I have a terrible headache that was brough about by lack of sleep this weekend. I might go home early..I know I need to rest or else wait for my condition to get worse which I don't like. Hope you feel better soon too!

Sorry to heard that, I hope today you feel better. I think when I got sick it depend in how sick I am if I can't stand it I prefer to stay at home. but the worst thing when I had dateline and get sick ( which I really want to stay at hime ). I have to come because nobody can't take my job beside my junior but when it comes to dateline she already had lot of something to be done.

Oh I can relate on you. I know the feeling of having flu. It's really hard especially when you are working. I knew that because I used to come to office even I had flu. I just cant leave the office so I can still make it even if I am sick I make it a point to still come and work. It is harder when you are absent for a day because when you come back there are tons and tons of work to do. Just drink plenty of water. It will help you feel better.

sometimes when i need to complete some urgent assignment and requires my presence i go to office with sickness.But i make sure to return home at the earliest after completing my job work so that i can make myself better and attend with good health for tommorrow. Liek you say its very uneasy to work when we are in cold and have to sit in office with full air conditioned.My collegues are so good that they swich off the ac when they find me shivering or sneezing in cold.Never i take my office work to home and do.

If I am not very sick, then I have to still go to work. I can't have a day off easily. Of course I like staying at home so that I may get well soon, but it is not easy. So usually if I really don't feel well and I can't get well by eating medicine, then I will go to see a doctor in early morning. After that, I will rush to go to work.

hey wondricequeen, hope you're feeling better. if it was me.. i would go to the doctors, and get myself on medical leave. i love my job (not necessarily the company :-}), and i am a committed member of the department... which i think is why i need to be in good (physical + mental) health when i am work. it would be worse if you stayed on while you're sick, and cant concentrate... and start making mistakes which you wont normally do. people remember mistakes better + longer than the good deeds you've done!.... so, if i am not well enough to work... i'll stay at home.

Sorry to hear you are not feeling well. It is probably better to stay home because you need to get well, and because if you are sick then you probably cannot do your best work anyway, and also because you do not want to give illness to your coworkers. However, I have worked at some jobs, where it was not possible to take a day off for one reason or another. So sometimes we have to make the best of a bad situation.

i have been there before for a few times but i was still siting at work as long as i can concentrate and my sickness didn't really disturb me.. I will just stay at home if i couldn't even get up from my bed and have a really bad fever. but usually it takes only 2 days absence.

if it was just a flu,and not very serious,i would stay at office,on duty.but if i feel really terrible,i would ask for leave,to continue stay at office may affect my workmates.

I go to work if the feeling becomes so better, will fax a leave notice to my boss if it becomes worse, for such arrangement can make him plan the next work.

man its horrible to have that feeling... i feel for you, i really do... But im strictly not aloud to go to work when im ill, i work in the catering line ATM you see, so im not aloud to pass on anything, so if im ill i dont get to go to work...

When I was working I went to work alot of times not feeling so good. Because some things had to get out that day. If I was really sick forget Its not worth it to go in.Like you said you can concentrate. Hope your feeling better.

Most of the time I had to go to work I also believe sometimes that it keeps my mind away from illness. But still I need rest at those times. But the nature of my job prompts me not to miss it.

Depends on how bad I feel. If I am not feeling well then I would choose to stay home rather than suffer the consequences of a fever at work.. If it is just a cough or a flu then I would most probably still go to work. I also feel bad when I skip work, just like when I skip school, I am not used to being absent, I worry a lot on what is happening in the workplace.

I think that I have cought a flu two days ago somewhere, just one day, it was afternoon, i was at home and i started to feel something in my throught - now i am at work, i feel really bad, like my head will explode, i have a really good manager lady - but i don't want to leave a bad impresiion - and i haven't worked for a long time here like an administrator - it was a real luck that i got this job, so i am really worried that one day i could loose it somehow....

It depents how much the sick will impact my job. If my current job is to maintain a mission critical system, I will ask for a leave as a very simple mistake I made may make the system down. But if I know the simple mistake I made can be correctly at no cost, I will still go to the office to work.

I always go to work when I am sick, but it's just because all I have to do after I am done is clean up all my equipment. I am a DJ on radio for a living, and I can't really miss too much work, you know? But yeah, going to work sick is nothing new for me or any of my co-workers, in fact, I think its every other week someone is sick. So it happens alot. We just learn to deal with it.