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 Topic: Work/ School or sick
Posted: January 31 2011 at 11:21 |
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Right now I'm kind of sick and I'd rather be at school than feeling miserable at home. Making up work is no fun.
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The T
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 11:33 |
If I'm barely sick (like with a cold) I'd still go to school and work. I have gone to work sick many times. Being in bed doesn't pay...
But if I'm really feeling terrible, like with a high fever, school and work can be left aside. My health comes first.
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The Pessimist
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 11:49 |
 The T wrote:
Being in bed doesn't pay... |
So true... the wages need to come in 
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NecronCommander
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 13:16 |
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I still go to classes and stuff if I feel like sh*t, the only time I won’t go is if I’m vomiting either late the night before or the morning of.
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Vompatti
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 13:49 |
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If I haven't got a class where the attendance is mandatory, I usually stay at home if I'm sick and/or feel like crap.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 13:52 |
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I love class. I'd much rather be there.
I love tutoring I'd much rather be there.
Teaching is okay. Would probably rather stay home.
EDIT: Oh you meant be home sick or be at school or work. In that case I would much rather be at school or work, even if teaching.
Edited by Equality 7-2521 - January 31 2011 at 13:53
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Padraic
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 13:56 |
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I still don't know - is the choice be home sick or be at work/school healthy? or be sick in both instances?
Edited by Padraic - January 31 2011 at 13:56
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 14:45 |
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I think it's work/school healthy vs at home sick.
It's a bit confusing.
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DisgruntledPorcupine
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 14:50 |
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This is actually an incredibly hard question. I hate being sick, and I hate going to school. But I guess I'll go with school.
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Padraic
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 14:51 |
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Oh, ok. I guess you really have to hate work/school to choose the home sick option. I'd rather be healthy than sick, lol.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 15:19 |
Best to go out and spread the misery around. 
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CPicard
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 15:39 |
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It would depend: sick at home... if I had a fiancee who would agree to call in sick at her work and spend the day with me...
Healthy at work... if two or three women at work could be more... clear? direct? frank?
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himtroy
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 16:06 |
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I'd definitely take going to work over being sick, class on the other hand....I don't know.
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progkidjoel
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 17:18 |
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Don't have a job, but I go to an all-boys catholic school, soooooo....
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The T
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 17:24 |
All-boys catholic school?
Now I see a point in getting some terrible disease ON PURPOSE...  |
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stonebeard
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 17:39 |
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If it's really bad I'll want to stay home. It's better to pray to the porcelain god at home than shatter peoples' perceptions of me as someone who does not drink himself into the most horrible hangover you never had in yer life on a Thursday night. That was an awesome sentence. And a true story.
But just feeling meh and stuffy nose and whatever? Down a bottle of NyQuil and get a pocketful of lozenges and deal with it. Plus having your head feel like a cotton ball drenched in Mountain Dew is great if you work in costumer service.
Edited by stonebeard - January 31 2011 at 17:57
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Dean
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 17:45 |
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Sick people who are "brave little soldiers" that struggle into work no matter how ill they are should be instantly dismissed and be prosecuted for physical assault on their work colleagues if the infect anyone in doing so. It is an act of irresponsible stupidity and I have no sympathy for anyone who turns up for work with a heavy cold, or worse still, 'flu, especially if they give it to me.
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The T
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 18:20 |
^ 
In my case, I'm a part-time for now so if I don't go to work and call out I don't get paid (unlike full-time employees). But I agree that if one has a virus, is even worse for the company to have you in there and suffer generalized contagion...
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Luna
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 18:37 |
I'd rather have a permaent snow day
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Man With Hat
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 19:40 |
Dean wrote:
Sick people who are "brave little soldiers" that struggle into work no matter how ill they are should be instantly dismissed and be prosecuted for physical assault on their work colleagues if the infect anyone in doing so. It is an act of irresponsible stupidity and I have no sympathy for anyone who turns up for work with a heavy cold, or worse still, 'flu, especially if they give it to me. |
Exactly.
Don't know how I'd answer the poll...but I do hate when people go to class/work when they obviously should be at home.
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