"Get on with it"

[Rainecloud]

When you're suffering from an illness, do you "get on with it" (IE - your job), or do you take the day off to recover?

Please discuss. Thanks.

[Flying Mullet]

I'm a total wuss when it comes to being sick. I love nothing more than to sink under the covers and throw in a good movie/video game and relax.

[m4tt]

I'm a total wuss when it comes to being sick. I love nothing more than to sink under the covers and throw in a good movie/video game and relax.

Yup yup. I hate moving when I'm sick.

[SeeDRankLou]

I have to be pretty incapacitated for an illness to stop me from doing something. If I'm contagious, then I won't go to work or out or anything, but I'll still like clean the house or go for a walk or something. Really the only thing that keeps me at home in bed is a 100+ degree fever. If I'm vomiting, I'll just take a shot of Fenadryn and be done with it. It's always been my experience that Immodium AD works in one dose. Claritin D always clears up my allergies. I'm a big Sudafed (sp?) user when it comes to colds, it always works for me. And if I need it, I work in a medical facility and am privvy to prescription drugs, I just need to talk to a doctor.

[Bomber]

It depends on the severity of the illness. If it's just a mild case of the sniffles, I can usually continue on with my daily routine. If it's a full-fledged flu bug, I'm usually down and out for at least a day.

I don't get sick very often, but when I get it, I get it BAD!!

[Cz]

I heart your title, Raine.

I try and milk the illness as much as possible, and attempt to get the day off. It doesn't work very often, though, so I end up working while ill anyway.

[Psychotic]

Depends how ill I am. I've had a cold which I am sure is SARS this week but that didn't stop me getting on with "it", but the flu will take me down

[Loony BoB]

Depends on how bad the illness is and how much work there is to be done. I don't trust people to cover for me without screwing up, so I avoid taking a day off entirely. I often just end up working from home, since I can access 90% of the stuff I do via the internet.

[fire_of_avalon]

I get on with it.

[Zifnab]

I usually get on with it. I'd rather not, but if there's a responsibility needed from me I feel I have to keep taking part.

[Craig]

I stayed home when I was at school but i've only been ill once since I left, around the time I started college I wanted to go in for my first day but I was puking on the morning, if the illness wasn't so bad i'd probably go in for work because if I don't i'm not payed.. but if I couldnt be bothered then it'd give me a good excuse.

[Denmark]

I stay home even if I'm a little sick. :D

[Triple T]

Just to feel safe I take a day or three off from school to recover. But then again, I hardly get sick in the first place. =/

[Sacred Phoenix]

It depends on what I have to do that day. Say if I had a thirty page essay due, and it was worth a huge amount to my final mark, and the teacher was a real ass, the i would go to school. But since i barely ever get sick, i would milk it for all it was worth.

[Del Murder]

One summer I had my wisdom teeth removed and went back to work after one day. There has only been one time where I was too sick to work. It was a terrible stomach virus that lasted a week, but I was still able to show up to one of my jobs (I had two at the time) on the days I wasn't puking my guts out. If I'm breathing I'll go, because you eventually get better and being behind and loss of pay lasts longer.