Comments | meirionwen: I knew I should have called in sick....

meirionwen

I knew I should have called in sick....

Apr 12, 2010 16:26

It was my first full day in my new job, though and I wanted to make a good impression. Not that it mattered. My supervisor wasn't there. I got quite a bit done in the morning. After lunch was where it started getting dicey: I already had been feeling nauseous when I woke up, so after about fifteen minutes up, I went back to bed for 45 minutes and ( Read more... )

sick, work, first day on the job

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meirionwen April 12 2010, 22:54:38 UTC

Thanks.

According to my First Aid/CPR-C training, fainting is not an "emergency" unless one is pregnant or has been diagnosed already with an Illness of Doom.

The last time I fainted (many years ago) I had the stomach flu and it seems to be what I have now, thank goodness.

airyoracle April 12 2010, 22:58:32 UTC

Pregnancy, I hear, is also not a good thing to happen to one.

(I'm just teasing you, Merry)

meirionwen April 12 2010, 23:03:17 UTC

Haha! Pregnancy is pretty impossible right now, except by immaculate conception and I'm not sure I'm sinless enough for that! Or sinful enough, if we're talking about the gods of party time... :D

Oh good, the copy room floor didn't eat my sense of humour!

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linkar123 April 12 2010, 22:47:58 UTC

Oh no. You must be having a nasty bout of stomach flu. Have plenty of rest and get well soon!

No, this is not a failure, but it might make a very memorable first-day-on-the-job for everyone involved.

Hugs for you!

meirionwen April 12 2010, 22:52:42 UTC

I said "near-total". I feel accomplished for getting things done before succumbing to the plague.

airyoracle April 12 2010, 22:57:21 UTC

While I admire your troupership in making sure the fax when through once it would *finally* feed... please don't do that again. When sick in fax room, pls exit fax room ASAP.

I haven't had that many jobs, but I've blown some interviews pretty impressively. Once I slagged on a kid from junior high *and* his parents, and then discovered he was the interviewer's nephew...

meirionwen April 12 2010, 23:04:44 UTC

Ooo! Gotta be careful about who you talk to about anything... O.o Wow.

airyoracle April 12 2010, 23:06:25 UTC

I know it's hard to tell, but I talk too much. Way, way, way too much. :D

meirionwen April 12 2010, 23:11:51 UTC

Haha! How did the topic of your former classmate even come up?! That's the part I just can't figure out...

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