[Redway]

to call in sick? Do you just get on with it until you're bedridden or take the week off because of a sniffle?

[Niamh.]

Bed ridden

[Josy]

I have to be bed ridden

[kirklancaster]

There's not such a thing when you're self-employed. I once had a deadline to finish major renovation on a client's home, and was bedding ridge tiles on the hipped roof of a stone porch I had built as part of the works. I stumbled (ironically) when on the ground, and ended up having a pot on at the hospital for a broken ankle. I was back at work the next day because if I hadn't I would have lost several hundred pounds a day for going over time.

I am the same with illness - I usually dope myself up with pain killers, medicine etc, then just 'soldier on'.

The only thing I don't agree with is people who have infectious or contagious illnesses who still go into work or send their kids to school suffering from such etc.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Bed ridden

Yes thats Very Fair

[Brother Leon]

Self employed so I would have to be dying pretty much.

[Livia]

It'd have to be something serious. If I was just feeling unwell I'd work from home if I could, otherwise I'd soldier on.

[Ninastar]

i stay at home if i break a nail

[Ninastar]

kidding lols omg

but yeah, I have to be really ill to stay home. I used to use any excuse at school, but now I like making money. Although if I've been sick at night and feel okay the next morning, I still wont go to work, because I dont like the idea of spreading the bug.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Major organ failure or actual death

[Marsh.]

Bed ridden or something which makes being in work unmanageable, like something contagious or frequent vomiting.

[Firewire]

if I'm bad enough that I'm unable to drive

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Firewire

if I'm bad enough that I'm unable to drive

What - on the Golf course?

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Chaos

i stay at home if i break a nail

[DemolitionRed]

I run two totally different type of businesses; one requires me to be very athletic and the other mainly requires a lot of phone calls and juggling paperwork.

Some seriously broken bones has affected my athletic work but given me more time to pen push. Because I love what I do, taking time off is torturous and certainly not something I'm happy to do. I'm a very impatient patient.

[Toy Soldier]

I'd have to be pretty ill. When you're feeling ill, work is a more attractive prospect than being endlessly pestered by a 5 year old and a 2 year old. They're not very considerate of ill people .

In my old job, as a chef in a student pub kitchen. If you get an environmental health visit in a kitchen and you're ill (especially any kind of stomach symptoms) you (and the business) get into a LOT of trouble. So any hint of a stomach bug and you literally HAVE to stay at home.

[Vicky.]

Depends if I enjoy my job or not at that time

Mind I NEVER go in with vomiting bugs and that because even though I probably feel ok to work I dont want to spread stuff like that and even with a cold..people never appreciate you going in and infecting them

[BigSister]

I would have not be able to get out of bed. I wouldn't ring in just for a cough or cold

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Depends if I enjoy my job or not at that time

Mind I NEVER go in with vomiting bugs and that because even though I probably feel ok to work I dont want to spread stuff like that and even with a cold..people never appreciate you going in and infecting them

Oh God yeah, people would be really annoyed if you went in with something like that

[Firewire]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

What - on the Golf course?

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Firewire

Originally Posted by Firewire View Post
if I'm bad enough that I'm unable to drive - it's a golfing term.

[Daniel-X]

I voted inbetween the first two sometimes I call off work just if I've not had enough sleep due to having migraines in the night but sometimes I'll go in fighting tonsillitis or migraines etc