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Do you ever call in sick from your at-home job? - Just wondering

Posted: May 06, 2013

Just wondering, do any of you call in sick from your at-home job, when you are sick, or do you just work through it? I never call in, as I feel it isn't really justified to call in, if I am already at home. I was so sick this past Saturday, literally typing a job or two, going and throwing up, then coming back and typing all while having a fever of 103. Hubby asked why I just didn't tell them I couldn't work, so I could go to bed, but I wouldn't. I am already home and then I guess also with the industry the way it is, I don't want to lose my job that I happen to like, by calling out.

I don't know, just wondering if I'm the only one with my crazy idea system.

I do sometimes, depends how bad I am. - But, each situation is different. SM

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If you feel your job is at risk, I wouldn't. I'm currently sick, have been for almost a week, but don't dare call in because that would be my 3rd strike in a rolling 3-month period and I'd be written up. This is my at-home hospital job.

For an IC position, it would depend how sick I was, with what, and my job security, how the managers are, etc. I've done it in the past, but always the underlying fear of losing the job.

I have judiciously (SM) - Guitar Picker

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I've worked through various respiratory ailments, including bilateral pneumonia. I've also worked through UTIs, though I didn't feel well. However, once I had a group B strep UTI where I was so sick that I couldn't sit up straight, so I called off. Another time I had a stomach bug where only the fetal position was feasible for me, so I called off. I've never had an issue with calling off in the world of MT. (Nursing was a whole other ball of wax, so I learned to pick and choose my "bad" illnesses.) I would have called off on Saturday if I had been as ill as you were, though.

my take on calling in - anon

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Everyone has their own idea system, I don't think yours is crazy.

Working at home does afford the "luxury" of working through illnesses that you'd probably have to call in for if you worked out of the home. Being at home, the bathroom is more accessible in emergency situations. And it's a little easier to work through an illness sitting down than if you worked somewhere that required you to be ambulatory.

I guess my rule of thumb is that I call in if I'm so sick I feel my concentration is shot. I don't feel it's worthwhile to try to work if I'm so ill I find myself making a lot of mistakes while typing. I do call in for the occasional migraine. Last year I did work through the first few days of a particularly bad case of the flu but did have to call in when I was so miserable I felt like I was dying.

Fortunately, I am never sick on a work day - always on my day off if I feel ill, nm

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I only call in if I am so sick that I just can't - budmt

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sit up to work which is rare, but I did in the past couple of months for a couple of days when I had strep throat and a high fever. I think that is the first time I have called in sick in about 2 or 3 years.

If I am REALLY Sick - I Have

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I don't call in sick unless I AM sick--whether as an MT or when I worked as a CNA then (later) a nurse. A week or so ago I felt a migraine coming on. I just took my time (well within TAT), sipped on room-temp cola to hold the nausea at bay, and hoped no more jobs would come in.

I Have - see msg pls

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If I am really sick, my ears don't work right. Has something to do with the brain neurons or something---just doesn't all connect. Thankfully, that has only happened a small handful of times.

The worst is if I have a bad cough. Can't type when that happens.

I would say maybe one day out of every year or 2 I have to call in sick.

Calling in Sick - GrateMT

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I never have done this per se, but for my own selfish reason: My precious PTO days ought to be for something special, not being sick, LOL. If I have horrible allergies with symptoms, I take a pill. If I have a fever, I take a pill. Then I sit there and type or edit and get it over with. I might be all bundled up and shivering, drinking hot tea all day long, or sweating and going through the kleenex boxes, or whatever, but I figure the germs cannot go through the modem or the phone lines so I am not "contagious" in that sense.

Of course! - SM - YD

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I was floored by your question, OP. Why would already being at home make any difference whatsoever? If you're feeling sick, you're feeling sick. Makes no difference where you are.

Hope you are feeling much better today:)

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