Protection!
Today I should have been at work but instead I have been languishing here courtesy of something very un-nice that has seen fit to my invade person. I will spare you the detail, I promise you don't want to know, suffice to say I spent the majority of the early part of the day parked in the bathroom feeling particularly sorry for myself...... bleugh.
I of course had to go through the added trauma of calling in sick to work, I tell you, one has to feel very ill to run that gamut! Having made the decision that work would not be a good idea, it then took me half an hour to pluck up the courage to call, knowing full well today was not a good day from a staffing point of view to fall ill. Having been privy to a very un-nice conversation between another member of staff and the manager a few days ago did not make me feel any the braver, It had not been pretty, my heart bled for the poor lad on the other end of the line and so in trepidation as ever, I eventually made the call and credit where credit is due, my manager was surprisingly kind and understanding.
I am a grown woman of 40 something and yet the calling in sick thing terrifies me, as it does most of my colleagues, why does one person have the right to do that to another? I was shaking making the call and you just don't need it when already feeling like death. Hey ho, it's power and life and stuff I suppose.
Onto better things, having plied myself with appropriate medicaments the 'poorliness' is subsiding, I even managed to eat some toast with success and tonight is the night I have been waiting for, for months! I have the courage of my convictions, I have Ditto at the ready protecting the television remote from PG's grasp and I am prepared and looking forward with anticipation to the one TV programme I just have to watch....tonight is the first night of Big Brother 2005!!! Yayyyyyy.
Yup, I'm afraid to say I am a BB addict, it's crap I know but I can't help it....we all have to have one vice afterall!
1 Comments:
I guess I'm pretty lucky. My employer has a voice mail system for calling in sick, so that you don't actually have to talk to a person. It is so easy and they give us so many sick days, that absenteeism is a major problem. Management ocassionally will ask us for suggestions on how to reduce sick calls. I could suggest your manager's method, but why would I do that? I'm not crazy. :)
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