Feminists

abelenkpe

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26. Yes

Reply to Starry Messenger (Original post)

Mon Jul 23, 2012, 08:54 PM

Jul 2012

I only have a few sick days a year and usually end up using them for when my kids are sick and I need to care for them. But I can't tell work that. They think I should have a sitter ferry my sick kids to the doctor and babysit them.....ha ha ha ha. No one wants to babysit sick kids. And the hassle of authorization to take them to the doctors or give them medication....so unrealistic.

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Does anyone else go to work sick? [View all] Starry Messenger Jul 2012 OP

Where are the support for the men who go to work sick? My son is a cook and I can't southernyankeebelle Jul 2012 #1

1) did you read the article? if the legislation is passed it would cover everyone, not just women, & spooky3 Jul 2012 #30

Feminism means supporting everybody and not just one group. yardwork Jul 2012 #41

I once worked a week Worried senior Jul 2012 #2

omg. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #7

I've worked with pneumonia and was reprimanded for 'sleeping on the job' when I fainted REP Jul 2012 #39

One of the women I worked with did that too! abelenkpe Jul 2012 #27

I also once went to work for a week while I had pneumonia (not because my bosses were Nay Jul 2012 #28

I would rather go to work and be miserable and get paid, Kalidurga Jul 2012 #3

I never did, but didn't have a family or children to support, either whathehell Jul 2012 #4

Just had me to support - have gone in so sick I could barely stand (or risk being fired) REP Jul 2012 #40

To each his own, I guess. whathehell Jul 2012 #43

And being homeless? REP Jul 2012 #44

I'm sorry whathehell Jul 2012 #45

This message was self-deleted by its author REP Jul 2012 #46

Being fired = no job = no money = no rent = no place to live REP Jul 2012 #47

Look, I have not argument with you and if you and others whathehell Jul 2012 #48

sick days are a good thing for everyone so why isnt the membership fighting for sickdays? leftyohiolib Jul 2012 #5

Good question....Sounds like a rather egregious oversight on the part of the membership. n/t whathehell Jul 2012 #17

I go to work sick even though I have sick days. xmas74 Jul 2012 #6

It sounds like your workplace is whathehell Jul 2012 #15

I've tried. xmas74 Jul 2012 #20

Sorry to hear that. whathehell Jul 2012 #21

Guns and God group. xmas74 Jul 2012 #22

Oh Gawd...no pun intended. whathehell Jul 2012 #23

Nope. xmas74 Jul 2012 #24

I get it....n/t whathehell Jul 2012 #25

I have many times. These days I don't feel like a have to. It's usually brewens Jul 2012 #8

All of you make the argument Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2012 #9

I agree to all of that. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #10

I worked in a hospital once - visiting patients every day Smilo Jul 2012 #11

o.O Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #12

Yes. Zorra Jul 2012 #13

"an obsessively reliable hopeless responsibility freak." Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #14

Not to bring up a sore subject whathehell Jul 2012 #16

Actually, a lot of the guys in my family are work hogs. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #18

Yeah, you may have something there...My spouse has to be REALLY sick to take time off whathehell Jul 2012 #19

Two, off the top of my head. But both of them have taken on caregiver roles of some sort, LeftyMom Jul 2012 #32

I fully infer from your post that you have never been a single working parent Zorra Jul 2012 #34

Good inference, but if you never "inferred" that, why would you think i was whathehell Jul 2012 #35

Oh, so very sorry. I totally apologize for misreading your post. Zorra Jul 2012 #36

So very sorry, as well, for using a phrase that whathehell Jul 2012 #38

... Zorra Jul 2012 #49

Hey Zorra whathehell Jul 2012 #50

Yes abelenkpe Jul 2012 #26

Family Leave days should be applied to those times. Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #29

I do, but I work at home kdmorris Jul 2012 #31

In the past I have dragged myself into work Rex Jul 2012 #33

Usually One_Life_To_Give Jul 2012 #37

I went to work when I was very sick and very pregnant. I had sick leave, but I felt I had no choice. yardwork Jul 2012 #42

Since being forced to use vacation days for illness... liberal N proud Jul 2012 #51