Do you go to work or school when you are sick?

Yep, I go to work when I have a easy cold. I am mostly never sick, but sometimes I catch an cold. Twice I have done so. It is not something I do recommend. However staying home will not help. I rather work and get rid of it faster than lying in my bed and feel sorry for my self. I guess, I like my job so much that it do not matter. Dispite this, I know I should stay home, I work as assitance nurse for geratric care, and it is not wice of me to go to work with a cold. However, being sick, may cost you lot of salary and I can not really afford that. Have a nice day/evening. Catch you later

Jen, if my illness is minor and there is some urgent work to dispose of in my office, I would definitely attend the office, irrespective of the fact what others or boss might say. When I am too ill to attend the office and I know there would be of no use me joining my office, I would prefer a leave. If any of my subordinate is genuinely ill, I would advice him/her not to come to office, I'll dispose of her/his work.

Unless I am really sick and need to rest in bed, I will go to work. Ever heard that once you spread the virus to others, you will heal faster? J/K only. If I am on leave, work still has to be done by me. It will just pile up. To avoid piling up, the only choice is to go to work! If someone were to take over my duties, sure I will gladly go for sick leave.

Hi dear thanks god that i never got that ill that i need to take long leaves but if i have fever, flu or cough and its not bad then i come to offie, but if its worse and can effect others than i take one day off. And if i have diherrehia then sure u have to take day off Wish u all rthe best Bye

i am in a band so i have not much of a choice but still go to work even when i am sick. if i can not really make it i will look for someone who can take my place for the mean time, or the group will look for a replacement for a day or two. it is not that easy to look for a replacement but that is what we do when one of us is sick. if the singer is the one who is sick that is the only time we need to cancel work. it is much complicated to look for the replacement of the singer

hi friends yeah if it is just normal weakness or slight headache,then also i attend my college.but if it is something really very serious like having a very high fever with complete weakness ,then i dont go to college.i attend a doctor and take proper medications and take some rest. bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've gone to work sick, got my client sick and put her in the hospital. But this was a really Kick But bug, I've been to work sick before and didn't get her sick.

That's a good question Jen. I don't think I did when I was in school. I didn't care for school anyway and I avoided it even when I wasn't sick. LOL As far as work goes I did go in once when I was sick. It wasn't so much that I needed the money as it was only a part time minimum waged job, but it was a new job and I didn't think it would be a good idea to call in sick so soon after I got the job, so I went in. My husband goes in to work when he is sick, if he's well enough to. He has to though as he's the only one bringing in a paycheck. Fortunately he works alone the majority of the time and when someone does go to check on his work or to talk to him they turn around and head the other way and get the heck out. LOL

If I just have a mild cold I would go. There are measures you can take to keep from spreading a virus, like washing your hands often or not touching surfaces that others have to touch with your bare hands. I always keep disinfectant wipes handy when I'm sick and use them to open doors and such. If I have something more serious like the flu, no there is no way I would risk infecting someone else. Flu viruses can affect different people in different ways. If someone were to end up in the hospital or even die because I didn't stay home from work, I would never forgive myself. The worst flu I ever had was because my boss had just come back from a business trip in Hong Kong with a bad case of some weird Asian flu. He came to the office anyway, terribly sick, walked into my office to tell me something and coughed right in my face. Three days later I was so sick I thought I was gonna die. It turned into pneumonia and I ended up having to go to the hospital emergency room. I missed 2 weeks work. I was only paid for 3 sick days and the office manager was nice enough to let me use 2 days vacation pay. But I still lost a weeks pay, not to mention the doctor bills and prescriptions. Boy did I read him the riot act when I finally got back to work!!!

I did go in while sick because the boss expected it, he never really believed anyone was sick.. So I would go in and then if I was sick enough, he would send me home again.. None of the employees word was good enough, he had to see for himself.. A few times, I was so sick that I couldn't go and then I stayed home and didn't care what he thought..They do have a way of making you feel like you are telling a story and just laying our of work..

Hi Jen, I'm not working anymore but when I did I worked as a teller at a bank. If I had a cold and no fever, sometimes I would go in. It all depended on how bad I felt. If I felt pretty bad, then I stayed home, for my sake and others. But another reason I had to consider was if it was worth taking the chance of being out of balance because my head wasn't clear enough to work without mistakes. Personally, I feel that anyone sick and likely to spread it around should stay home. It's only fair to those around you. leenie

Hi Jen, when I still in study, I will go to school when I'm sick, but not in fever. And when I working now, I also need to go to work when I'm sick, as my boss don't like the staff always absence on job.

Unless I am on the verge of not being able to literally move or if my cold is very contagious. I go to work sick some days, since I have a private office and I don't usually have visitors in my office. I still go to work, since I hate to get behind in my work, and because of the nature of what I do, I have to stay ahead of everyone else. That was my attitude when I was literally a workaholic working 60-95 hours per week. When I work 41-46 hours per week nowadays and I do not plan to get sick. Although I know it may happen someday, I eat right, drink plenty of water and try to help as many people as possible in life. With my lessor work schedule, I still have to stay ahead of everyone else in my job, but I have access to volunteers that assist me, so if I am out, it isn't as crazy as I've had it to be in times pass when I was doing everyone else's job for them and not just my own. I have 5 hours of sick leave left over from last year. Although those hours don't carry over from year to year. So as you can see I don't try to use them at all. Ironically though, this year I only have 8 hours left. I had to go into the hospital unexpectedly so that's primarily the reason why.

If i have many difficult things to deal with soonest,i will go to work or school.i will leave early if i finished all the things.If there are nothing to do ,i will ask for one day when i am sick.

I actually prefer to attend my office even during my sickness. Though I do not suffer from major diseases. But I suffer a lot from minor headache, and some other health hazards. Actually, being at work helps me to recover early as I can hardly get any scope to think of myself while during working hours. I just take regular medicines and continue to work.

Yes I go to work even if I am sick in fact right now I am sick because of change in weather been sick since Friday but still I go to work. I don't want to spend my time just lying around at home it just makes me sick more. I just take meds.

I think most people go to work if they have a simple cold. It takes afew meds and you can handle it for 8 hours. BUT, afew years back I was having bronchitis about every three months. I would just get over it and get it again. It finally went into pheumonia. So I missed ALOT of work. If you have ever had bronchitis you know how awful it can be. After the pneumonia I never had bronchitis again. Months of sickness. How fun!

I don't like to when I'm sick, because I hate it when other people come into work sick and then pass it onto me, but my bosses will not be happy if you have a day off. This is bad, as it shows that they would prefer more of their employees to be ill rather than let one person have just a couple of days off.

Yes. I go as a matter of a fact I just got through coughing. I have a bad cold. My co-workers want me to go home. However my boss has not said a word. Depending on how bad I feel I normally come in sick. I save my sick time for when my children get sick. I have over 200 hrs sick time now.

Unless I am very sick and really can't go to work, I would prefer working than calling in for sick, because I hate seeing doctor (If I want to have sick leave with payment, I need to go and see the doctor and ask him to write me a sickness proof and submit it to HR).