Personally I've always assumed that banking (with it's average of 3 days off sick per year) was full of plague bearers. It's why I switched to online banking. I wish to avoid the bio-hazard zones that most banks must be.
I get less sick at smaller offices, even working in hospitals where there's only three people in the office and we're all needed, because there's less people coughing all over me when they're sick.
I hate working temp because I, too, have had those mornings where I calculate how much I have in the bank and if I can afford to not get paid for a day or three. Frankly, on temping salary, I can't. Which means I drag myself into work sick and am miserable, and everyone yells at me because they have sick pay and think I should too. Too bad reality doesn't work that way.
There are levels of sickness where it's not feasible to go work tho. The person with cancer who's having chemo, or the person with serious arthritis, who's hands won't move on some days, or the person who has suddenly come down with an ear infection who can't stand up are not realistically going to be able to go into work, no matter how proud they are.
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and TiredbadgersandjamMarch 21 2008, 18:07:33 UTC
Speaking as someone with, essentially, chronic arthritis (and chronic asthma, for that. And chronic stomach disorders, and...you get the picture) I will attempt tp pull myself in most days, on the knowledge that it simply won't get better. I have, in the past, had to call in with "excuses" such as "horrible histemic reactions--can't wear clothes" and whiplash injuries/nausea where I got halfway to work and then had to abort the drive, calling in from wherevcer I happened to be. I was excoriated for things like this. But when I struggled in, vomiting or whatever, I was sent home, then excoriated. And when I did work, I wa so exhausted that I'd go to bed at 5 or 6 PM. This is probably a contributing factor to my marriage failing. Chronically fit people (like my husband) simply cannot conceive of what it's like to be chronically ill. No matter how often I refer them to www.butyoudontlooksick.com (read Spoon theory, if you haven't
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Personally I've always assumed that banking (with it's average of 3 days off sick per year) was full of plague bearers. It's why I switched to online banking. I wish to avoid the bio-hazard zones that most banks must be.
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I hate working temp because I, too, have had those mornings where I calculate how much I have in the bank and if I can afford to not get paid for a day or three. Frankly, on temping salary, I can't. Which means I drag myself into work sick and am miserable, and everyone yells at me because they have sick pay and think I should too. Too bad reality doesn't work that way.
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