Jim Harbaugh, I'm Not Worthy

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I got sick this week and missed work.

How many MGoUsers out there could honestly make the claim, "I don't get sick"?

I've met a few machines that would go on ~five year stretches without taking a sick day.  Me, I usually have one or two sick bouts a year of one or two days each.  How about the rest of the board?

 

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BlueGoM

February 11th, 2015 at 1:41 PM ^

Had a nasty cold in December. This was largely because of a coworker who missed 2 days, came in coughing and sneezing everywhere, then missed another 2 days.  Surprise surprise, day or two later I start having symptoms.

Edit:  Seems to me the people who "never get sick" are the ones who drop dead about 2 months after they retire.  You've been warned.

 

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Och3517

February 11th, 2015 at 1:41 PM ^

I made a huge mistake after high school and smoked weed every day for 8 months. I tried it once in 7th grade and 11th grade. I was an athlete so smoking or drugs weren't on my list. In 2002 after high school I when through family stuff so I smoked. 8 months later I got Panic attacks, Kidney problems, Sinus problems and acid reflux. Smoking weed weakened my immune system. Ive not been the same since. Ive got buldging discs in my back now too. I wish I never touched it. I thank God my brother doesn't do drugs or smoke and I tell younger kids all the time don't mess with drugs cause it can seriously kill you and also affect your life badly. Im 31 and have been through hell, I can't go on rollercoasters, go sky diving, or anything with a huge adrenaline rush anymore. I feel like im 60 years old some days. I pray everyday that kids will not make the sme mistake I did. I wish good things upon everyone, and hope we can keep the younger kids to stay healthy and get involved in activities because you can't put a price on your health. My true heroes are kids like Chad Carr and all the kids who suffer from fatal diseases and still smile, Their fight is unbelievable and I would take their place if I could. Good health and God bless.

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Och3517

February 11th, 2015 at 2:24 PM ^

My bad, I should have explained how when I got all my sicknesses I couldn't workout either. I had a cyst on my kidney, so my back got weak and I was lifting a bed 2 years ago and crack. Im just saying those 8 months of stupidity have cost me 13 years so far. Im hoping surgery can fix it. I didn't have insurance for all that time and have massive hospital bills.

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Och3517

February 11th, 2015 at 2:27 PM ^

Its called facts. Everybody's body is different. I can't go on rollercoasters or do a lot of the things I loved because weed made my heart speed up to heart attack range. I was in an ambulance 18 times ive been given nitro because my heart goes to 275 beats per minute. People have different reactions to drugs. I was never sick growing up. You think weed isn't laced with things like raid and other chemicals that screw you up. Your a moron if you think it won't harm you eventually. I smoked heavy 7-8 times a day. Seriously people say it won't harm them but ive seen people get many diseases over it. Look medical I could understand if you need it, but street drugs are no joke their laced.

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Zarniwoop

February 11th, 2015 at 2:02 PM ^

How could anyone downvote that second gif?

I am fortunate enough to rarely get sick.  But, I'm sorry. No one is working through food poisoning. If they do, they are a M A N. I had it quite badly about 6 months ago, and I was unaware of my surroundings due to either fever/sleep or galaxy-spanning vomit bursts.

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Willis

February 11th, 2015 at 1:55 PM ^

My girlfriend, who's a flight attendant, gets sick once every 6 to 8 weeks. She gets mad at me every time because I haven't been sick in the 3+ years we've been together. I guess I was blessed with a strong immune system. I also workout 4 to 6 times a week, I think that helps.



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BlueByTheAlamo

February 11th, 2015 at 1:57 PM ^

I'm a civil attorney, and on the days when I am feeling under the weather I'll remote in to the office and work from the couch drafting pleadings and such. So while technically a sick day, still productive and focused on work.

The only exception was when I quit smoking. I used three days of sick leave to hide from the world knowing that I probably wouldn't be much use (read: be potentially hostile) to clients and could not stay focused.

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Eck Sentrik

February 11th, 2015 at 2:07 PM ^

Haven't taken one since 2005 and that was due to my boss telling me to "GTFO" when he saw me. Good health and good luck I guess. There have been a few times that I probably should have but just powered through and kept to myself.

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Gofor2

February 11th, 2015 at 2:20 PM ^

Over 23 years and I have not missed a single day of work. Of course to me sick is cancer, MS. Stroke, that's sick. Otherwise, you just don't feel good, and that's no excuse to not work. Only lazy people use it as one. My father was a dairy farmer. 220 head milked every day, twice a day, no matter what the day is, and sure as hell still has to be done if you don't feel good. Calling the flu or a cold sick is okay if you are under 10 or over 70. Otherwise your just a pussy. Of course I'm from Ohio, not Michigan.

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bigmc6000

February 11th, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^

Or you're just stupid for willingly infecting your co-workers with said diseases and you're such a company man that you refuse to use a benefit they give you (lest you not realize where they find the money for management bonus money...)

Have you also turned down 401k matching because work benefits are for pussies? What about a pension? Certainly you can't have that, that'd be shameful.

I'm also from Ohio which I guess just means that Ohio has the same definition go asshole as Michigan does.



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FauxMichBro

February 11th, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^

if you're sick, stay home. you disrupt others and potentially get them sick. there's no badge of courage for showing up to work; it's more selfish than anything. plus, you can't possibly be as productive as when healthy; taking one day to get healthy vs. a week of feeling shitty will probably result in similar, if not more, net productivity.

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Benoit Balls

February 11th, 2015 at 3:24 PM ^

if you have a good job with a good company and a boss who isn't a dick.  Some of us don't have that luxury (I do now, but Ive been at jobs where you feel like any absence at all could lead to your ouster. I've seen it happen. Hell, it happened to me, and they laid me off the day after I took my 3rd sick day in 4 years, knowing that I was saving for a wedding 5 months in the future)

So yeah, yeah, we're looking for a gold star. Maybe you just need to be thankful you haven't had the pleasure of having to work in such an environment.

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Benoit Balls

February 11th, 2015 at 5:25 PM ^

unfortunately, in the real world, there often come times where even though there is a method of operations in place, and "service level agreements" that we all must adhere to, management will tell you to ignore those agreements in an effort to improve their bottom line. My example came from my time in the mortgage industry where I was a loan processor. Generally we had to have certain items for a file to be submitted to underwriting (paystubs, W-2's, signed disclosures), but at the end of the month, when the sales managers were pushing to try and make their numbers as shiny as possible, the rules were tossed out the window, and exceptions would be made in the name of expedience.

 

Then when you take a sick day and they want to let you go, they forget all of the things they told you, and say things like "you're performance has really fallen off lately, you've been submitting incomplete files to underwriting..." and they know that you cant really afford to hire a lawyer and fight it.

Best part of that was they tried to block my unemployment and the State hammered them.  In the decision handed down they were told that "generalizations without any specific evidence" were not "acceotable forms of proof" and also that "it seemed" to the Deptartment of Job and Family Services "that the employer was attempting to compile documentation post ipso facto to support a decision which was pre-determined". So, that was awesome.

Also, with my last physical paycheck, somehow only the stub got mailed to me, so I had to go to the office and pick up my last check (and of course, I had to wait until the next week, which caused some heartburn with the bills I had set up on auto pay).  The HR person I spoke to (smaller company, less than 100 employees) told me that she saw the Sales manager who didnt like me (he was the kind of guy who thought going to church on Sunday meant he could be the douchiest of douch bros the other 6 days of the week) fiddling with the checks the week before, but she didnt think anything of it. Essentially, he pulled my check off of the stub just to screw with me and make things more difficult. Again, not worth hiring a lawyer.

So, if you've never had a bad job like this, just be grateful

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Louie C

February 11th, 2015 at 7:35 PM ^

A good friend of mine was fired from Demmer for being sick. He came into work sick because of their attendance policy (you miss work, buh-bye) which caught the attention of his boss. His boss agreed that he didn't look good, but only offered him the opportunity to lie down in his office. After my buddy rowlfed in his boss told him to go home, and I went to pick him up. About an hour after I dropped him off at work the next day, he called me asking to pick him back up because he had been canned for leaving work.

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BayWolves

February 11th, 2015 at 2:46 PM ^

My sick days are always preceded by a night in which I consumed too much whiskey or vodka. That aside, you all need to use your paid sick days instead of showing your employer how loyal you are. Come on, people.



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Benoit Balls

February 11th, 2015 at 3:00 PM ^

until I had a kid who got to be old enough to go to pre-school. Now at least once a month or so, someone has something. I swear it might be a better idea to let the kid grow up eating boogers

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mgoblue0970

February 11th, 2015 at 4:30 PM ^

There's a 50 year old slob who works in my building who still does.  My team preps for long meetings by establishing the over/under on how many boogers this guy eats. 

We had to remove him from a client facing position as well.

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JHendo

February 11th, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^

From the beginning of adoloscence until young adulthood, I literally didn't get sick.  I remember I got the flu in the fall of 7th grade.  I didn't miss a day of school or get all sick until I got food poisoning the second semester of my senior year of high school.  Besides that, the only ailment I ever really had was season allergies, but I did go over 10 years without catching anything contagious, including even colds.  

Through my first 2 jobs which spanned a total of 6 years after high school, I never missed a single day of work and never got sick.  When I got my first big boy job, I realized how necessary "personal" days were, and would fake being sick once every3/4 months, but still was never actually sick.  That streak of never actually being sick and legitimately calling out of work for it didn't start until recently for my current job that I've been at for almost 4 years.  18 months ago, my daughter was born, and a few months later, she started going to daycare.  Needless to say, after spending more than half of my life not catching anything contagious, I now catch something about once a month thanks to my daughter, and every other time I do, it's bad enough that I need to call out.

So yes, gentlemen, I am insinuating that I used to be a Superman or Unbreakable-esque being.  However, I have found my kryptonite, and it is the neverending sicknesses that daycare-aged children carry.

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