NWR When do you call in sick?

VM, done that so many times at jobs I hated.

Thank baby jeezus I have a job I finally like, with a pretty good staff, and a boss I actually like AND respect.

I usually don't call in unless I'm SUPER sick and because I can't use my STO until it's been 2 days of being off. Every now and then I'll call in if I'm not feeling so hot. Sometimes you need a day of doing nothing and laying around.

I only call out of work if it physically hurts to get up and brush my teeth/ go to the bathroom. I force myself to go to work usually to have my boss tell me to turn around and go home. I'm an idiot because I never use my sick days.

I get 5 a year. I have been at my job for almost 3 years and I have maybe called out sick 3 times in total.

If I am having the stomach flu and or fever is when I call in. If I have a cold, I just suck it up, take some OTC med and go in.

Only if I have a migraine and I'm to the point of throwing up. I've only done it once

I left at lunch friday with a cold. It was to the point that I had this terrible headache radiating down my neck and looking at my computer screen was making me nauseous.

In 6 years I can honestly say I've never called out... I did have to go home sick one night. After all resources were exhausted and I had nothing left to try, my shift supervisor found someone to come in for me. Had a fellow Paramedic give me... IV fluid & Phenergan didn't help, so going home was my only option.

I have never called out.

But I do take "doctor appointment days" that I don't go to a doctor. Not at my new job, but totally at my old one. I just HATE calling out. FH never does either. He has never missed a day that he didn't take PTO for. We both get sick days but we never use them.

I've been here 3 years and only called out once for an impromptu day date with FH, once for a sinus infection, and once when I broke my leg over the weekend and needed surgery. My job is pretty flexible, so if I'm not feeling well I usually go in late, leave early, or just work from home.

If nothing's going on, sometimes I'll just take a half day. It lets me sleep in and rest, but I'm not very good at sitting still at home all day no matter how sick I am.

Besides, no one wants you to get them sick if you really are sick.

Before I switched to work at home, all of my PTO was lumped into one bank. I went in no matter what and used my 3 weeks PTO for vacations only.

I called out sick one day when I realized I was legitimately spending more time in the bathroom than at my desk. Ten minutes of work and my stomach would riot and back to the ladies' room I'd go. Figured that wasn't super profitable. (ETA - that is, I left early because I was sick. Didn't call out to begin with.)

Another day, I started feeling weird around lunchtime, felt feverish by midafternoon, and found out I had a high fever and a terrible case of the flu that night. But I stayed and finished my workday even though I was pretty out of it. Probably should have left that day because of like germs and stuff. Whoops. :/

I'm sorry you're not feeling well, m!

I had a really bad allergic reaction once and I took Benadryl and if I take Benadryl, don't expect me to function, so I called in then.

Or I stayed home when I had a horrible stomach ache from eating something wrong.

Then again, I'm a postdoc, so I mostly work by myself. If I don't go to work, I just have to do the stuff later.

The worst part is it's not enough to make me super unproductive, but enough that I want to whine about it

My boss is cool, so i will usually just text him when I wake up. It doesn't happen often, but he always knows I have Crohn's so if I'm in a bad place, my job gets it.

I had nose surgery last year and only missed 2 days and came with a cast. I think everyone assumed I had a nose job until the cast came off and they saw it was still my big ol' nose. I ended up wasting 5 sick days and i wish i would have just left.

I had the flu earlier this year.. aka actively puking and I came in 3 days and left half way through.

I also missed one day this year due to an awful hangover where i was puking the next day. I say puking is what makes me stay home, mostly because other people get kinda screwed over if i dont show up.

I get 6 sick days and 2 personal. Our bosses are pretty adamant that even if we're just running a low grade fever we stay home. It's a small office so they don't want us passing things around. They don't ask any questions as long as we aren't out for more than 3 days in a row.

Ha @Emily, it shouldn't be funny to me, but I have such an insane history of gastric issues related to stress, at one point in my life I was vomiting multiple times a day. It's like, the one symptom I can deal with. Unless it's so bad I can't keep anything down for more than five minutes, I could vomit all night long and feel fine and get some sleep, but if I get a headache it's like the world's collapsed on me, ha.

I get 18 days of sick time a year. I call out whenever I feel like it. Thinking about going home today. I think I might have gotten whiplash when I crashed on my son's dirt bike Monday.

I dont usually get sick. I call in cause I dont want to go in. Usually it involves snow on the ground or DH and deciding to play video games all day. I dont even care, I hate going to work.

ETA: I only get 3 sick days, but i have 3 weeks vacation that I can use or I can make up the hours.