What would you do in this situation?

[SweetPea]

space ghost:

if you were the business owner, i think you would feel lied to…what do you think?

I think the boss would be glad that a sick employee didn’t come to the office and make everyone ELSE sick.

There sure are some mean, hard-hearted people who post here. I’m glad God is a lot more merciful than you are.

 

[JCPhoenix]

Sarcophagus, if you are really sick, DON’T GO TO WORK. In fact, don’t study, either…just go to bed!

Several years ago I had lost my good job, was working in a position in which I could barely pay the rent, and each month I thought I was going to have to give up eating completely just to avoid welfare.

I went to work when I shouldn’t have. I remember one scary night waking up, not able to breathe…nothing. Couldn’t inhale, couldn’t exhale. Somehow, must have been the residual air in my lungs, I was able to cough just enough to clear a little…take a breath…and get rid of it.

I couldn’t sleep the rest of the night for fear of dying. I wouldn’t call an ambulance, I had no family in the area…so I went to work. I shouldn’t have been there. I ended up being that sick for more than 6 weeks.

I TOLD people I felt like I was hit by a truck, a train, or than an anvil fell on me. I WISHED these things would really happen and put me out of my misery.

I learned later on that I had sick time…but I didn’t take it because I didn’t know it was there and losing a day of work would have meant not paying the rent.

Don’t put yourself in this position.

LOG OFF right now and GO TO BED! Pray about the test. If you’ve studied like you say you have you know the work and if you take a B instead of an A so be it. At least you’ll be alive to recieve the grade.

And ByzCath…I respect your knowledge, but lighten up! I use the phrase “feel like I’ve been hit by a truck” thousands of times. Could this phrase just have a different connotation where you live form where Sarchophagus lives?

 

[klbarrett]

ByzCath:

I have been unable to find the definition of sick that matches “I feel like i was run over by a truck”. I did not miss this. I took this to mean you are feeling stressed and over whelmed.

ByzCath,
“I feel like I was run over by a truck” means you are sick. Not stressed. Not overwhelmed. Sick. I’ve been an ER nurse for 20 years. Do you want to know how many millions of times I’ve heard this phrase? It means you’re sick. You might have the flu. You might have some other virus. You might have pneumonia. Whatever the illness, you feel like you’ve been run over by a Mack truck. And by all means, when you feel that bad, DO NOT go to work!! Stay home!! Don’t make everyone else sick, too!! I never appreciate one of the other nurses coming in to work out of some feeling of obligation when they are sick. I see enough sick people as a nurse, I don’t need one of my co-workers hacking on me - because I guarantee you I won’t get sick from one of my patients. But when one of the nurses or docs comes in to work sick, all of us get it. And I don’t want it. So my advice to Sarc is to stay home. And ByzCath, I have to tell ya, “I feel like I was run over by a truck” is a common complaint. I don’t mean this as a slur, but I wonder if perhaps you are being just a bit too scrupulous?

Karen