i'm sorry I can't come in

[thylasos]

I've gone both ways, either not coming in (for various reasons besides illness), and coming in, in spite of illness.

I'm not one for feeling guilty about it, so long as it was possible to keep up with my work, and I'm not letting anyone down.

 

[Latinidiot]

I haven't and I don't think I would.

 

[The Night Shade]

One time i did but i don't feel guilty

 

[StarkRavingSane]

No.

Mostly because I got sick for real when I started working (200+ people in an 'open office', air conditioning etc) and my boss said that I'll have to watch it if I want to keep my job. So since then I've been going to work even when I was ill. Right now I'm on a week-off cause the doc said that me working and taking antibiotics caused my current condition.

So yeah, it's either health or work for me, can't have both. So acting ill's out of the question.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Yep and no. If I felt guilty I wouldn't have done it, would I?

What kind of logic is that? Are you saying you usually feel your guilt before you do the deed?

Well generally speaking you know before you do something whether or not you'll regret doing it. When debating "Should I phone in sick today?" your conscience will either shout up or keep quiet - the logic is perfectly sound.

So you mean you weigh up the potential to feel guilty if you phone in sick, and then act based on that. Yeah, that makes sense.

Exactly. Sometimes it seems like a good idea, and other times it feels like a bit of a dick move. I pull my sick days accordingly.

 

[rokkolpo]

Yesterday xD

Regrets? how about relief.

 

[hurfdurp]

Hmm I did that about three times for work, and almost the entirety of my High School career. I felt bad when I did it for work and let it ruin the entire day that I took off, so not much payoff there.

 

[Benny Blanco]

What kind of cravenly dishonest person would pretend to be sick to avoid work? ;P

 

[Don't taze me bro]

I work with children. You always anticipate that during Winter, they will come to school, snotty nosed, wheezing and coughing. You tend to need all your accumulated sick days around that time. (And a flu injection)

 

[GundamSentinel]

Twice. The first time was more like extending the time I had actually been sick to catch up with school work. Didn't really feel guilty about it. The second time I just didn't feel like getting up. I did feel a bit guilty that time as my work group had a presentation that day.

Then again, I'm actually sick about once every 10 years, so some twisted logic inside me told me I deserved the day off.

 

[redisforever]

All the time, and never feel guilty.

Oddly enough, I was thinking of acting sick this Monday, and skipping school. So I did. The next day, I was taken to the doctor, who told my parents I had the flu, so I got to stay home till Wednesday.

 

[Nexoram]

No, my mother would kill me for it. I know a friend though that comes to school about 2-3 days a week. A WEEK. Man, he got worse marks than me and I got shiiiiiit marks.

 

[MassiveGeek]

Well, of course I've skipped with being sick as the excuse. I'm a fucking teen, it's expected of us to do stuff like that.

Although I mostly do it because I don't actually miss anything. I was just sick for a week, didn't miss anything. At all. What I was a bit behind on I've already caught up with.

So no, I don't feel guilty skipping and yes I do it occasionally.

 

[Mechsoap]

Several times, and no I do not feel guilty, I really needed a day off.

 

[Quaxar]

Actually, I haven't, but then again I like my job... Have done it when I still went to school (when I was 15 or so) a bunch of times, didn't feel much guilt since I was good at timing it to days that weren't worth attending anyway.

Someone who loves his job? Woah!

But yeah, I "this" it. I never did it in school because fuck, I go here to learn stuff and not because I have to. And now I don't do it either because I too like my job and the company seems to be always short on people anyway.

 

[Trivun]

I never pretend to be sick just to get time off something. When I was at secondary school, I only ever had a single day off. And that was for my uncle's funeral. Since I've been working, I've had three days off, for a really bad cold. And normally I'd still go to work anyway, the only reason I took the time off was because I work in a supermarket, and mixing a cold with a job involving food is a sure-fire way to get in a lot of trouble with my bosses. Contamination and all that...

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Doing it right now because I hate one of my seminar tutors.

Unfortunately, in order to keep up the pretence I have to miss a seminar with a tutor I really like, but it's worth it.

 

[AbstractStream]

Oh the big sickie.
Yeah, done it so much that I've lost count.

Do I feel guilty about? Maybe once. Back when I was in highschool. Faked it so well that the whole class was freaking out.

 

[Angerwing]

I did in my previous job, but I haven't in my current. I enjoy it, it's not physically strenuous at all, and I'm working with great people.

But in my old job, it went EXACTLY like this.

yes, if you're owt like me you feel really guilty and like you're gunan get found out. Then you ring... the phone rings and rings, sweat dripping from your brow, your clammy hands struggle to hold the reciever. "Hello?" comes the voice from the other side. PANIC! They'll know! You'll be found out! "I-I'm ill," you stutter terrified of the consequences "I can't come in today." Seconds pass which feel like a millenia then the response...

"Sure, whatever, see you when you're better."

Then pure elation and euphoria at what a unstoppable leviathon of deception you realise you are.


Least thats how i feel wen i call in sick.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

Did it multiple times last period and lied to my parents about going to school.

In the end it didnt matter at all I still passed my period with all good grades. Though they did whine about my abscense in most of the lessons.

I am not the only on in my class doing this. Around 30-40% of my class was in the same situation as me.