What do you do when you're too sick to work? : Othor Games

» Thu May 31, 2012 1:32 am

I think part of the reason I tend to work even when I'm sick is that as a child, my mother was a nurse and if I tried to play sick (or even if I really was) I usually wound up at the doctor's office. Not a fun place to be. Nowadays I just work through it, and rest on the weekends.

TBH, I can't remember the last time I took a sick day from work because I was actually too sick to get out of bed. Haven't missed or been late a day this year (yet), and only took one day off last year to fix some automobile issues.

» Wed May 30, 2012 8:14 pm

General practitioner, fancy word for docter. Don't know how it is there though, I got one for depression so the government can list me as crazy. Also depending on your relationship with your doctor and access, I don't have a family docter (i know mine very very well though). Shame that you have to make copies, but can't you post them to the university or email them these days for your illness? Just say if I came in you'd all get deathplauge so sorry, better not risk it then take a break.

Interesting... Yeah, I think its the norm to have a "family doctor" where I live. At least, that's all I've heard of...

When I was experiencing depression, my doctor just recommended me to a phone line where someone makes some kind of diagnosis of you, where they then recommend you do some one. I ended up being recommended to a psychotherapist at a hospital

» Thu May 31, 2012 9:27 am

Sounds like ya got Mono. Ewww.... :wink:

Too sick to work? Hell, I've called in too "tired" to work a few times (damn those all nighters with Oblivion when it first came out!).

hahahaha

Hmm... I don't think its mono, because I've got most of my energy back. Also, my neighbour, who's at least in his 40s, had the same symptoms as me, and he said in the second week the sickness is basically gone but just nagging at you. Thanks, though; I didn't consider mono

» Thu May 31, 2012 6:32 am

I go to work. Most of the time, that can be a good thing, as many illnesses, while inconvenient, are minor. Sometimes, though, it makes it worse to man the [censored] up and keep going.
Once, I had meningits, didn't know it, went to work. I woke up in a hospital room. I'd told the bf to turn his music down the previous night, because noise, light, simply exisiting was excruciating pain. He'd taken offense. I didn't want to be percieved as a wussy ass girl, so I said nothing. Went home, hurled, went in to work, hurled, head still hurt. Took a prescription migrane pill. Resumed working. Next thing I knew, I was in a strange room, and the nurse informed me had to lie flat on my back. I was there almost two weeks. Couldn't eat, slept a lot.

I find that sleep, lots of fluids, and knowing my limits helps me recuperate much more quickly than trying to motor through as if nothing is wrong.

That's basically what I try to do, that is, the latter. Usually I don't try for too much sleep, though

» Thu May 31, 2012 10:20 am

Jeremy Kyle

You do Jeremy Kyle? :confused:

» Thu May 31, 2012 4:25 am

Sleep.

» Thu May 31, 2012 12:03 pm

When I had a full time job in a factory I'd continue working untill I collapsed or the supervisor/manager noticed how ill I was and sent me home. (second only happened a couple of times. First happened more.)

Now I'm

» Thu May 31, 2012 1:26 am

When I'm too sick to do anything useful, I browse the interwebs and play video games.

Oh wait, that's sort of what I do anyway... (not really)

» Thu May 31, 2012 4:28 am

i usually go to work if im sick or not

» Thu May 31, 2012 6:01 am

If I feel so sick I can't do my job properly, I stay home. At home, I sleep if I'm too ill, otherwise I chill on the couch with interwebz and games. And loads of noms.

» Thu May 31, 2012 4:16 am

I go to work...

» Thu May 31, 2012 10:53 am

I take the day off and play video games. I'm incapped, so I am forced to sit down/lie down so why not amuse myself?

» Thu May 31, 2012 8:18 am

I go to work no matter what.

» Thu May 31, 2012 10:48 am

When I was experiencing depression, my doctor just recommended me to a phone line where someone makes some kind of diagnosis of you, where they then recommend you do some one. I ended up being recommended to a psychotherapist at a hospital

Yeah I got refered to some psychobraindocter or something. CBT is not really my thing though. Bipolar is not fun but the medicine is boring

On another note, any who say you go into work when really sick, like flu sick, have you considered your spreading your infection around? Thats mean!

» Thu May 31, 2012 12:33 am

any who say you go into work when really sick, like flu sick, have you considered your spreading your infection around? Thats mean!

When you've got no other means of income, and no one you can count on to help you out in times of need, you do whatever it takes to keep the money flowing...including working while sick. There are certain fields of employment where I can fully understand staying home, but in my field it's not a big deal.

» Wed May 30, 2012 11:10 pm

If it's just a cold I just tough it out

If it's something more though I take care of myself and get necessary medicine and rest to be healthy again (and if I need to I'll see my doctor as well).

» Thu May 31, 2012 12:15 am

Yeah I got refered to some psychobraindocter or something. CBT is not really my thing though. Bipolar is not fun but the medicine is boring :tongue:

On another note, any who say you go into work when really sick, like flu sick, have you considered your spreading your infection around? Thats mean!

Sometimes stuff just has to get done.

» Thu May 31, 2012 5:50 am

Sometimes stuff just has to get done.

On the other hand, sometimes nothing has to be done. I know people who will go and hang out with their friends whether they're sick or not. I call those people pricks.

That said, if I can help it I usually don't go anywhere when I'm sick.

» Thu May 31, 2012 9:12 am

Yeah I got refered to some psychobraindocter or something. CBT is not really my thing though. Bipolar is not fun but the medicine is boring :tongue:

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haha, I actually just stopped going to mine two months or so in: I was sick once and missed an appointment, phoned in, but I never got a call back, and I never phoned back...

Although I found it emotionally difficult and challenging, I think the end result was definitely productive

Hmm... I tried two different kinds of anti-depressants, but both resulted in me getting fairly intense panic attacks. It was annoying because with neither was I able to use them long enough to actually get the effects! haha, >:

» Thu May 31, 2012 8:56 am

I stay home.

If there's stuff that MUST be done, somebody else will do it. Or I'll do it when I get back in. That's all there is to it, and (censorship!) anybody who tries to tell me otherwise. Fortunately, my company tells people that they should stay home when they're sick. They're all about the important thing: *not* spreading germs.

If I'm home sick, then I'm very sick and about the only thing I can do is crawl to the couch and turn on the first movie I find regardless of what it is and then I sleep through most of it. Repeat until the sickness is gone.

» Thu May 31, 2012 12:06 pm

When I was a restaurateur I followed guidelines and would take time off and encourage my staff to do the same. It was the most sensible thing to do, plus I could've faced huge fines or imprisonment had myself or my staff passed on foodborne illness to our customers through negligence.

Now that I work for myself at home I just do what I can and then rest.

» Thu May 31, 2012 9:50 am

Playing horror games on highest volume to know that i'm alive.

I had a terrible virus the week that Dead Space 2 came out, so I pretty much did this.

» Thu May 31, 2012 3:54 am

I'm not afraid to show up sick and have done so many times before. On the other hand, I've stayed home a lot when I'm sick as well. My thinking is: Why slave yourself away for your company like that? Work until I pass out? No thanks. I'm a person, not a robot, and I have a life outside of work. I guess I have the luxury of saying that though. Also, my job has a very very strong union, which makes it pretty much impossible for anyone to get fired.

» Thu May 31, 2012 9:36 am

Yeah I got refered to some psychobraindocter or something. CBT is not really my thing though. Bipolar is not fun but the medicine is boring :tongue:

I think an awful lot of practitioners of CBT don't really seem to understand how it works.

On another note, any who say you go into work when really sick, like flu sick, have you considered your spreading your infection around? Thats mean!

It's not just that, it actually hampers productivity: as well as the quality of work of someone who's really sick being worse than useless (I know mine is), if they take the rest of the team down with them... well that's not exactly a good thing.