Topic: What sort of sicky are you?

Are you one of those people who instantly turn miserable and head for bed at the first sign of a cold?

OR, are you one of those people who battle on no matter what, thus sharing all your germs with the rest of your colleagues (if you work in an office that is).

.... just thought I'd ask the question ...

We have heaps of people sick at the moment. A few of them are at home and a few of them have come into work. I'd prefer the sick people to be home where their germs are contained specially since the weekend is coming up. I sent someone home this morning coz they shouldn't have been at work. Most of them have laptops and MCC cards so can work from home anyway.

hmm good poll

I must confess I usually work on when sick cause I'm a diehard. I stay at home when it gets really messy though....

There are a lot of folks out there who even stay at home when they only think they're sick or just not in the mood to work, that's really bad!

That's why some companies have set up "Mental Health Days" as well as sick days. Their staff get 5 mental health days a year and that's just so that when they really don't feel like working they can take one of those and their sick days are set aside for when they're really sick. I think it's a good idea.

I've had a few mental health days in my time. Throwing a sickie can be looked at as being wrong but I think sometimes you just need a day off (without dipping into your annual leave).

And then we have the students at Tamaki College, South Auckland, who stay away from school, 200 at a time.

One-fifth of the student body is home sick.

Are they really sick? Is this some Helth issue that should be looked at? Or are they just wagging?