Devotion to Duty

[andrewducker]

Headache.
Wearing two jumpers _and_ sitting under a duvet makes me tolerably warm.
And yet I still feel guilty for not going into work today.

I'm currently contemplating phoning in at 8am tomorrow and chatting to my manager - saying "I feel really awful, but if you need me I'll come in."

Which is just bloody stupid - they _don't_ need me (I'm handy to have about the place, but I'm not vital) and I'd just be postponing my recovery and spreading disease. But I still feel guilty enough about not going in to want to do it. Which means getting up at 8am to phone the office, which is pretty stupid when I feel ill. And yes, thinking in circles is making my head spin more.

Where did this devotion to work come from? I never used to care about working when I was ill, but now I find myself wanting to go in and make a good impression. Very odd.

Comments

[biscuitware.livejournal.com]

Call them now, tell them that if they don't see you at work before 10am... chance are you won't be in because you still feel like shit.

Beats getting up at 8am to ring them.


... unless of course you can't leave VMs

[fire-sermon.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation, I'm going through exactly the same thing right now, and you're helping me actually contemplate *not* going into work tomorrow...

[trashcanglam.livejournal.com]

I can guarantee you that if you come in tomorrow then seeing me in your department at 10am will make you wish you'd never come in.

It might make you wish you'd never been born.

I have that effect on people.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

I just read this...

You have a temperature you git!!! Go to bed!! It';s teh same germ I had!!!! it helps make temperature stable & you'll feel better. get soemone to get you Night NUrse tomorow and you'll sleep 12 hrs and feel MUCH better.
(Men, hah..)

[derumi.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Is it you that wants to go into work, or the little microbes inhabiting your body, willing you to find new hosts for their bissionary children?