I hate taking time off - earlier this year I actually got sent home because I threw up at work! I shouldn't have gone in at all that day.

But yeah, I kinda like having something to be getting on with to take my mind off of illness. Otherwise I'm just at home feeling sorry for myself and that doesn't make me feel better at all.

I think I need to be more careful not to push myself too hard, but basically I do have to have something very wrong with me to even consider a day off!

I would rather be home because I don't want to spread the sickness around.

I've been forced to work when I was terribly sick before at A SUBWAY RESTAURANT. So yeah, I was serving sandwiches while I was contagious because the stupid manager deliberately ignored my calls and texts when I was trying to call out. I even collapsed while I was in the back of the restaurant. I was only allowed to go home when a customer complained that I was working while I was sick.

I almost had the same fate again, but I decided to quit that day because I was so sick that I was afraid I would end up in the hospital if I worked.

Yeah... I hate how a lot of managers treat their employees. It's not right to make someone who is very sick go to work.

Home mostly. I am in Public Health; I dont like spreading germs. Plus, my school is in the middle of a huge medical center were there are a lot of immunocompromised people; it is better to stay home for their sake if I have something contagious. Also, I get better faster if I rest.

But between the time I graduated college and decided to go back to school, calling out sick wasn't really an option.The vet clinic I worked at operated on a bare bones staff due to corporate staffing restrictions that upper management imposed on us. Once I texted my boss because I lost my voice due to a very bad respiratory infection, but I was told I had to come in because no one else could cover my shift. I literally could not speak above a garbled raspy whisper and at the time I mostly worked up front doing client check ins and discharges. My job was nearly all talking to clients and communicating with clinic staff. but despite my my legitimate inability to do my job I was still expected to come in (and be useless). Thankfully someone covered last minute, but I had to go in the next day. I could speak but was sent home early because my voice sounded so bad and I kept having coughing fits that a few clients were getting worried for me (loved those clients for caring though <3)

The US really needs to reform sick leave laws and corporations need to stop stretching staffing so thin that the whole day becomes chaos if someone has to call out. Let's not make people choose between spreading their germs because they need pay and staying home to recover.

I go to work unless like Lisa said, I'm throwing up or need to go to the ER. No paid sick days for me. But I'm fairly good at washing my hands and I'm the one who cleans the bathroom and kitchen at work anyways.

Sometimes keeping busy totally cures or stops a runny nose or bad cough which is nice. However going to work with a uti is a world of heck.

I love your avatar ☺

Thanks! I love your lionfish mermaid too! Or is she a lionfish-koi hybrid? Very cool, whichever!

I agree with you, unless I'm puking or severely hungover (once in a bluemoon) I prefer to be at work.

At home so I don't get anyone else sick and can be curled up in a ball in my bed

I'd always much rather be at home snuggled up in warm blankets with hot coffee and soup in easy reach. That is, if I have a fever. If it isn't contagious and I'm not bedridden, I'm fine. I take medicine, dress to accommodate as I can, and go. That being said, I work in fast food, and no one wants a sick-looking or sneezing, coughing person handling their food. I'm totally fine to oblige, my blankets call to me.

I would rather be home, im a respiratory therapist at a hospital, it doesnt exactly look very good when im sick and coughing and sneezing and congested trying to take care of people who are having issues breathing. And its not any easier just because im sick since other people are still sick. I was sick earlier this week and called out for 2 nights just bc i felt so crappy

I'd rather be home. In fact I'm home right now. I work with children, and it's not very smart to infect all your pupils with whatever coughing and sneezing you have, plus you have to be a rolemodel for them, and what kind of signal would I send if I came to work looking and feeling terrible with no mental capacity for them?

at home, my coworkers HATE people that come in sick :/

I'd rather be home, because my work requires a lot of concentration and when I'm sick I don't concentrate very well so I wouldn't want to mess something up and put more pressure on others.

That said I have gone to work when not feeling the best because I've needed the money and couldn't afford to have time off

I'm lucky in that I have paid time off, but... I feel so guilty for taking time off, I'll work when I'm sick anyway :/ which is why I have over 200 hours of PTO saved up that I can't even think about using without feeling bad about myself.

Given my druthers, though? I'd rather be at home. I don't want to spread it around, and I want to get over it as quickly as possible. Plus, I'm a bit of a baby when I'm sick, since I don't get properly sick very much.

I would like to stay in bed but, unless I'm close to death, I have to go to work regardless the risks. Just waiting for a pneumonia to erase me from this stupid planet at this point.

I'd rather be home sick because I want to be comfortable when I'm miserable.

Also I work around food so I wouldn't want to get others sick.

At home. I'm lucky and have PTO, so if I'm sick, I stay at home.

Definitely home. I have a very demanding job and unfortunately when I get any kind of cold or flu bug I tend to get very light-headed/dizzy, and foggy brained where I just can't think clearly at all. I just can't function at my job like that.