When you're sick, would you rather be at home or at work? Like I told my coworker this morning - I'd rather be sitting here getting paid to be miserable than at home and miserable and not getting money for it. I think as long as I'm not throwing up, I'd rather be at work. I just have an upper respiratory thing right now (I think anyways). My throat is itchy, I keep coughing, breathing is rougher than normal, and my left ear is all stopped up. I've been sitting at my desk, drinking tea. But I can't stomach another cup. It's an ayurvedic medicinal tea and it's kind of odd-tasting, but it really makes me feel better. I'm hoping my friends are going to stop by later with some bubble tea. They go every Sunday and I usually go too, but I had to work today. Bleh.

I know at school, it's heavily frowned upon to go to class if you're sick, because you risk getting other people, or the professor, sick. I haven't ever had a non-food related job where I was sick. If you work in restaurants you cannot come in at all if you even seem slightly sick because it's a health issue. I was never sick for my internships, so I don't really know protocol there.

Yeah, I feel bad about possibly spreading it, but at my work, people come in sick all the time. I'm just washing all the time and using hand sanitizer and not getting too close to anyone, so I hope it'll be okay. It's frowned upon to take a day off at my job because it's hard to get a replacement on short notice - there's only three of us who are full time and two who can cover on an as-needed basis, but usually everyone has plans already if you have to ask the day-of.

Depends on what I was sick with.

I was normally the one who was called when the others got sick because I don't get sick very easily. Yet the days I was actually horrifically ill, I'd catch an insane amount of crap for having the gall.

I'm always at work, sick or not. I'd rather be paid. The only time I don't go in, is if I'm throwing up. I hardly (knock on wood) ever get sick. I have a really good immune system. My mom and I shared a beverage at the movies and she was sick with the flu the next day and I'm perfectly fine.

I always go to school unless I throw up or poop my pants (or fever is over 100). I have no time to waste :c

Have you actually pooped your pants? D:

At school? Yeah xD

Don't feel bad. I've done it twice. One time I wasn't feeling well and I happened to sneeze. The other time, I held it in too long and it decided to come out.

It really depends how sick I am, I suppose. I have a very demanding job in healthcare and it doesn't always bode well for my patients if I'm sick, but at the same time, I'm surrounded by other healthcare providers that are quite doting when any one of us gets sick, so it's nice in that way. Plus, if it gets really bad, I just have one of the doctors I work under send me home sick and my boss is fine with it haha. But you're right - I like my job a lot, and so if I'm going to be sick either way, I may as well be at work sick and getting paid than at home sleeping 16 hours a day. The only problem I run into is that when I'm already sick, sometimes I get something opportunistic and even worse from a patient and then I wind up in bed miserable for 2 weeks sicker than I would have been if I'd just stayed in bed in the first place. >.>

It depends on how sick I am, but if it is bearable I'd just go to work sick.

My job requires me to be outside, active and alert, so doing it sick is... not ideal. If it's a bit of a cold I'll bear through it, but I would definitely rather be at home. If I were doing a desk job or something I probably wouldn't mind going in as much, but my bed is my sanctuary when I'm ill.

One job I had, had zero tolerance on being at work while sick. It was especially enforced at my division, because we worked with kids. I got sick few times during work day, and every time I was sent home just for feeling ill (having fever was only more reason to go home).

I'd rather stay at home, because when I'm sick I usually can't focus on anything except being sick. (And I think in my country you get paid for the first ten days of your absence?) My social anxiety also makes it harder for me to be around people when I have to cough and blow my nose, so I'd rather do that at home too. .__.

If my employees are sick and looking contagious, I'd rather they went home before spreading the illness around. I work in a bookstore and I know the dust and whatnot don't help with sicknesses. P: I'd much prefer snoozing in my bed over sweating it out at work.

I would much rather be at home and I wish everyone could stay home when they're sick too! It would definitely stop sicknesses spreading so easily. Of course companies don't think that way and punish people for staying home sick. There are people who disagree that that happens but they don't live in the real world. The company I work for doesn't teach its store-level managers the law or they teach them to break it whenever possible because management keeps telling us that we don't even get unpaid sick days and that we can be "disciplined" if we call in sick. We're supposed to get up to 10 unpaid sick days a year according to our government's website.

There've been times I've worked when I've been sick as a dog and had such a bad fever that I barely understood what was happening but I still had to work for 4/5 days (I ended up calling in sick the last day because I could barely get out of bed).

I hate big companies. They're run by psychopaths.

It depends on how sick I am. If I am throwing up, I am definitely staying home. I would probably also stay home if I had something contagious, like the one time I got the flu. I stayed home from work, because I was trying to be a responsible employee, and it worked out really well because I had paid sick time. At the job I'm currently working, unless I am actually throwing up, I'll go to work and do whatever I have to do (face masks, constant handwashing, not breathing on anyone, etc) to avoid getting other people sick, because I can't afford to just have a chunk of my hours missing from my paycheck. As for what I would rather do, I would absolutely rather be at home, because when I'm sick I'm really easily irritated, and I don't think that blends well with a technical support job and really freaking annoying coworkers. I do like getting paid though, which is what makes paid sick time so good. I can stay home and not hate everyone and not get people sick, and still get paid.

I'd rather stay at home (just like now...my tonsils are killing me) but it doesn't make a difference; I get paid even if I stay at home being sick.

As a teacher, my evaluations are partially based on attendance. That said, many of us come in with all manner of illnesses because our officially mandated ten days of sick leave count against us.

If I have any kind of GI problem, I don't go to work. Period. I gauge respiratory things based on whether or not I think I can do my job effectively in the condition I'm in- if I can give lecture and hand out assignments for the full day, I go. If not, or if the idea of going to work is awful enough to make me want to cry, then I stay home and damn the consequences.

I would definitely rather be home. However, we're so short-staffed that I have to be in quite a sorry state to justify it (usually I am the person who fills in for other people, so there's nobody to fill in for me!) It's nice to be needed, I suppose, but...