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Yea, fever and/or barfing. I work too far from the bathroom to be safe in case of a stomach bug! I was actually just thinking about this today, I have a cold and was looking for excuses to stay home :) Didn't find any though....
I have to be throwing up. If the fever is bad enough and I'm dizzy/delirious I'd stay home then too.
My sicknesses usually start as a cold and then I get body aches. Once I get the body aches, I'm staying/going home from work. I can deal with a little stuffiness in the nose or a minor cough, but when I feel like I can't get off the couch then I know I'm actually sick.
I hardly ever get fevers or throw up, so those aren't really a good lines for me (annoying, because they were always the ones the school nurse used!).
I can work from home fairly easily, so if I feel like I'm contagious or sick enough to be gross, then I'll work from home (or more likely, since my laptop is usually at the office, go home early). Since we have all PTO lumped together and I spent a lot of it visiting family, I am REALLY reluctant to use it on sick days.
Of course, at my last job, we had unlimited sick days (if you took a suspicious amount, they'd discuss it with you but I never heard of that happening) and I don't think I ever took a single one. I think all the days I felt bad enough to stay home ended up being on weekends that year.
I don't like it when people come to work sick, so I stay home if I have contagious symptoms.
I almost never stay home sick unless I am actively violently ill. I live 45 minutes from my work and I have a work cell phone that is the contact number for our program. Even if I was to call in sick, I would probably have to either find a way to get that phone to my other staff or deal with it ringing non-stop all day--people would be very upset if they couldn't get ahold of anyone at that number. Usually when I start to think about that...I'd rather just go to work, haha.
Depends on how much leave I have! I happen to be saving for the honeymoon right now, but before, it'd be like oh my gosh I feel like crap, I have 26 hours of leave, I'm gonna take the day off!
It's more just a general feeling of "with how I'm feeling, could I be productive at work today?"
I'll obviously stay home if I'm throwing up but sometimes my body aches so badly or my digestive system is just out of wack of something where I know I wouldn't be able to be productive at my job if I went in.
When I can't speak, either because I've lost my voice, or break into huge coughing fits everytime I try. It makes working very unproductive, while I spend most of my energy trying to breathe shallowly and not make any noise. Better to be home asleep and not contaminating the office.
Fever and/or barfing. If I have had either or both during the night/morning, then I call out. I go to work if I have a cold, but not a sinus infection. Anytime I have to call the doctor for antibiotics, I don't go. If I go to work with a cold, it usually is just to prove that I'm sick and then I go home around 1 or so. This is not often.
FI and I called out and played hookie once, and it was a great day. So sometimes you have to be really 'sick of work', and that is a good reason to call out, too. :) We only did it once...it's hard not to want to do it more!
I only have to be sick of work.
Now, if our sick and vacation leave was combined... that would be a different story.
I rarely throw up, but at least once a year I get the really bad body aches and head ache that I need to stay home. Most other things I work through though.
Usually I have to be vomiting or have a very high fever where I can;t think straight. Lately towards the end of this pregnancy I just am done. I know some places give mental health days....I think I need a few of those right now...lol.
Throwing up = automatic sick day. My job is very flexible and lets me work from home if I can't be in the office, so if I have a sinus infection, fever, etc. I will usually still work that day, but work from the comfort of my pajamas on my couch :)
If I'm somehow tied to the toilet (throwing up repeatedly or other "stomach problems," to use the common euphemism). I hate missing work, so I'll try to work though colds, however bad.
I work with animals and they don't understand if I am sick...so no matter how I'm feeling I go to work.
I stay home when I have:
My co-workers don't want me around when I'm sick and I definitely shouldn't be around customers when I'm sick. Thankfully I have a pretty liberal sick policy but lately I've been pretty good about not calling in sick especially since I have a better work/class schedule.
- crippling headache
- fainting or bad fatigue
I would consider vomitting but I haven't vomited since I was like 7 ... so that doesn't count for me.
I pretty much never call in sick, but I use my sick leave for doctor's appointments all the time.
Last winter I was scheduled to be on annual leave, but then I was deathly ill with pneumonia. My work let me take sick leave instead of annual leave which was nice.
I rarely get fevers or barfing, so I basically call in sick if I'm too dizzy/weak.
I know we're not supposed to go in and spread our germs around, but let's be realistic: I would have to take a week off for every cold and flu in order to keep people away from my germs!
home remedy: coffee and ibuprofen. all I need is for the aches and pains to go away, and a little energy boost. (dayquil makes me halllucinate so I can't take it.) at night, I take tylenol PM to help me sleep. (nyquil makes me feel hungover the next day --- apparently this product is no good for me!)
I know that people have to go to work/school when they are sick but it pisses me off, Its just not fair to go out and spread your germs to the whole world. I have a friend who has to go work no matter how sick because they give people crap for taking sick days even if they have them saved up so she goes to work and then others get sick and the boss complains and cant figure out why so many people are sick.
A fever. I'm not allowed at work if I have one since I work with patients - mostly geriatrics.
I wish people would stay home when they're not well. I'm a teacher - so when parents send their kids miserable, sniffing and sneezing to school, I end up with a CLASS full of sick kids.. and then I cop it as well. Bah!
It's better for everyone if you take it easy and rest. It's what I do.
@jaguar:@miss sparkly cat: I would love to take a day or two off to rest and sleep when I'm sick. Unfortunately my company (and I think most due to the current economic state) doesn't look favourably on employees who take sick days. When it's a matter of your job or giving a coworker the sniffles, well, sorry Bob.*
*names have been changed to protect the innocent
@Aure: Oh, it's not your fault - I think it's appalling when companies put that pressure on their employees. Let's face it, if you go in when you're sick, your productivity is down, you'll end up staying sick longer, and you can potentially get others sick. It's frustrating when companies don't look further than IMMEDIATE consequences, ya know? Sucks. :(
I work at a Doctor's office on the clinical side of a small office--so I'm pretty much necessary (well... small office, we're ALL necessary), but I also interact with ALL the patients, so
If I have a fever, I stay home, no questions. The flu could kill one of our patients.
Other stuff, I still go in.
Puking from morning sickness--I bring a bucket in my car for the commute. I work through it.
If I am throwing up, have diarrhea, have a migraine (which also tends to cause throwing up), or utter exhuastion/blah to where I can hardly get ready for work, I stay home.
Also, since I work at a hospital, I am REQUIRED to stay home if I have a temperature over 100*. (Even though I don't work in patient care, or even at the hospital, I work at an office building a block away.)
I probably stay home with less symptoms (head cold) than most people for a few reasons.
A) At that point I've probably been contagious for a couple of days and still am so it's courteous to keep my germs at home and
B) If I take one day at the beginning of a cold, it'll be over in a few days but if I wait a few days, I'll be sick for a week.
But, if I have important deadlines or meetings, I go in, if only for a half day to attend the meetings or bring home whatever I need to complete my work while I'm at home.
I have taken only two sick days. The first time was because I threw up at work and the second time was because I passed out at work. I also only missed three classes when I was in college due to being sick. The first one I left in the middle of class because I thought I was going to throw up. The other two I missed because I accidentally slept through them but I had fully intended to show up and suffer through them.
I guess if I'm well enough to get dressed for work, then I'm well enough to work. It can be miserable to work through cramps and ear infections and what not, but I have a job to do. However if I couldn't get ready because I needed to be near the toilet I would call out sick.
It sounds like most of the people resonding to this thread have to be pretty ill in order to call in sick.
I, however, am extremely liberal with taking sick days. If I even feel just a touch sick, I will stay home and rest. I tend to get sick easily and I would rather be out for an afternoon or two than three weeks at a time- I consider it a small price to pay.
I'm actually sick at work right now, I keep thinking I'm going to start feeling better and I should stick it out.
But I'm thinking I might go home at lunch...I just don't want to start feeling better and regret my decision!
If I can't make my commute (a long one) or if I have a fever, I stay home. I rarely have a fever, but since I am a nurse, a fever means I am sent home. Reasons I can't make my commute would be vomiting, diarrhea, or severe headache.
When I had paid sick time, I would stay home the first two days of a cold, since that is when you are most contagious. But now that I don't have sick time, I only stay home if I'm throwing up.
Um... none of the above, I've gone to work throwing up. I've acquired the skill of being able to hold it long enough to get to the bathroom, even though I don't work that close to it. Unfortunately as a part time cashier I'm on the low end and I'm still pretty replaceable.
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...to stay home from work?
Do you stay home only if you're throwing up, whenever you have a fever, when you feel yourself starting to come down with something, etc?
Usually a fever is the line for me. If I have a fever and already feel pretty sick I'll stay home. Most cold symptoms I work through.