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Anyone else racked with guilt on a sick day?

harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
edited February 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
It seems I'm racked with guilt in many parts of life, even though it's totally unnecessary. I'm sitting here with a stomach bug, nasty stuff, and yet I still feel guilty for being off work. Basically, I feel like a catholic. Guilty all the time. Anyone else? I don't know how to beat it.
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  • LindaLinda Posts: 1,656
    just stop it mark, time for a talk right? :D
    i'm not happy yet.....
  • surfanddestroysurfanddestroy Posts: 2,786
    No never, sometimes I even take sick days when I am not sick :)
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    Dusseldorf 21/06/07, Manchester 17/08/09, London 18/08/09, LA 06/10/09, LA 07/10/09.

    Ain't gonna be any middle anymore.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Christ man, just enjoy the time off and try to feel better :) you don't owe the world your work.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    You're all totally right, obviously. But I'm trying to change the habit of a lifetime here. I was even scared to ring the boss to get the day off cus I was scared she'd think I was making an excuse or bullshitting.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    you seem ok? i mean you are sitting at your computer typing on here.. you cant be that ill if you can come on here and stuff.

    you should feel guilty... my fucking taxes are paying for your slovenliness... now if you'll excuse me i have an afternoon of online table tennis to partake in... god bless working for the government ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    dunkman wrote:
    you seem ok? i mean you are sitting at your computer typing on here.. you cant be that ill if you can come on here and stuff.

    you should feel guilty... my fucking taxes are paying for your slovenliness... now if you'll excuse me i have an afternoon of online table tennis to partake in... god bless working for the government ;)

    I'm ill dammit, I am sick in my Fuckoffagus. :D
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    It seems I'm racked with guilt in many parts of life, even though it's totally unnecessary. I'm sitting here with a stomach bug, nasty stuff, and yet I still feel guilty for being off work. Basically, I feel like a catholic. Guilty all the time. Anyone else? I don't know how to beat it.

    What is this "sick day" you speak of?

    Not sure I remember the last time I took off sick. It has to be a couple of years.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    dunkman wrote:
    you seem ok? i mean you are sitting at your computer typing on here.. you cant be that ill if you can come on here and stuff.

    you should feel guilty... my fucking taxes are paying for your slovenliness... now if you'll excuse me i have an afternoon of online table tennis to partake in... god bless working for the government ;)

    It's no wonder the fucking council tax is through the roof. You buggers should feel guilty when you turn up and get paid.
    :D




    Lucky bastard,...any jobs going? ;)
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    im blessed in that i have never felt guilty about not working. like right now, im pondering blowing off class this afternoon becos my throat is sore.
  • Stone Is GodStone Is God Posts: 1,331
    Never feel bad when the company issues you sick time and you use it. That's what it's there for.

    At least they don't call you at home when you're sick. I'm the IT guy for my families business and I could be lying on the bathroom floor in a pool of my own vomit and if something breaks my phone will be ringing.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    dunkman wrote:
    you seem ok? i mean you are sitting at your computer typing on here.. you cant be that ill if you can come on here and stuff.

    you should feel guilty... my fucking taxes are paying for your slovenliness... now if you'll excuse me i have an afternoon of online table tennis to partake in... god bless working for the government ;)

    Amen. My sick leave is just another vacation account as far as I'm concerned. I take sick days all the time and I'm never sick. Tax dollars hard at work! Oh, and I only ever post in this pit when I am being paid to do so (at work), never on my time.
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    It seems I'm racked with guilt in many parts of life, even though it's totally unnecessary. I'm sitting here with a stomach bug, nasty stuff, and yet I still feel guilty for being off work. Basically, I feel like a catholic. Guilty all the time. Anyone else? I don't know how to beat it.
    I'm catholic... and I don't understand this word 'guilt'

    Obviously I can't tell you to 'enjoy' your sick day cos you're actually sick... but maybe you should try sleeping it off? I haven't taken a sick day in well over a year :eek: but mainly cos I don't need to... if I want/need a day off, my company are quite fair so it's never got to the point where I've felt I need to screw them :D
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    soulsinging wrote:
    im blessed in that i have never felt guilty about not working. like right now, im pondering blowing off class this afternoon becos my throat is sore.

    Class is different than work.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    I'm catholic... and I don't understand this word 'guilt'

    Obviously I can't tell you to 'enjoy' your sick day cos you're actually sick... but maybe you should try sleeping it off? I haven't taken a sick day in well over a year :eek: but mainly cos I don't need to... if I want/need a day off, my company are quite fair so it's never got to the point where I've felt I need to screw them :D

    Unlike the company I work for then, who are very mean and unfair, thus I have on occassion NEEDED to screw them, just so as I could sleep at night. Also is a diff' thing with pyhsical work, if you're ill, you just can't do it. Where as sitting in front of a computer posting random messages here is considered convalecing to some, to others it's part of a days work, no wonder some of you never miss work...you guys kill me, you got it made, well done to you :D
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    know1 wrote:
    Class is different than work.

    i never had any problems blowing off work either. i used to call on sunday nights claiming i was sick so that i could stay an extra day with my girlfriend. that was just an example.
  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    It seems I'm racked with guilt in many parts of life, even though it's totally unnecessary. I'm sitting here with a stomach bug, nasty stuff, and yet I still feel guilty for being off work. Basically, I feel like a catholic. Guilty all the time. Anyone else? I don't know how to beat it.

    you have no idea...
  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    i always go to work when i'm sick, so i can share the fun with my co-workers.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • LizardLizard Posts: 12,091
    i feel guilty mostly because I work in an extremely small office--2-1/2 people.

    Actually, our receptionist is out sick with that nasty cold right now so I am here alone. Geez, I barely have time to Post here!~ it sucks!!!! :)
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    I don't feel guilty but they always try to guilt me in to coming to work. It doesn't work. Sick days are part of your pay. Do you ever feel guilty when you get your check???
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    It seems I'm racked with guilt in many parts of life, even though it's totally unnecessary. I'm sitting here with a stomach bug, nasty stuff, and yet I still feel guilty for being off work. Basically, I feel like a catholic. Guilty all the time. Anyone else? I don't know how to beat it.
    ...
    Think of it this way... if you were feeling all happy and healthy and plugging away at work... the the guy in the next cubicle was sick and coughing up the new strain of the black plague into the air you are breathing... would you want his ass there... at work?
    NO. If you are sick... do the rest of the world a favor and stay at home... take your medicine... relax and rest until you are well. Nothing wrong with that... right?
    ...
    Now me... if I wake up and the thought of going to work makes me sick... I call in sick. Nothing wrong with that, right?
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  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,676
    No guilt here. When I get a sore throat, I get happy thinking that I will get paid to stay in bed.
  • roarroar Posts: 1,116
    I've had to take a few days off this week, and I think I've apologized about 50 times for it.

    mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    brain of c wrote:
    i always go to work when i'm sick, so i can share the fun with my co-workers.
    :D me too... I've taken very few sick days over my life where I've actually been sick... I prefer to drag myself in those days so they think I'm really really dedicated. Cos then when I DO take a sick day they'll think it must be bad... and I get to really enjoy it rather than stay in bed feeling sorry for myself :)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • mole1985mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    I'm off today and i do feel a bit guilty but then i just think, fuck 'em they wont beleive that im ill, they never do.
    Dublin 2006
    Katowice 2007
    London 2007
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