The sun is shinning and it’s a cool crisp 70 degrees outside. Your stuck inside behind those hideous gray walls. You look over at your coworkers desk: empty. You just know that they called in sick and yesterday they were perfectly fine. You take a heavy sigh wishing you done the same after getting an email from your boss about a ‘new project’.

It happens – people don’t use sick days for ‘real’ sick days. Looking outside right now I truly wish I had done this. It’s gorgeous out and not to mention its Friday and the boss has been out all day as well (probably at the golf course).

The one thing though that bugs me in this real-life scenario is that those who do it (I admit it – I do it too…sometimes) will use up all their sick days and come into the office hacking and coughing infecting us all with the swine flu or something. While I honestly can’t be mad at them (because I do the same thing…sometimes) I wish, I just WISH they would at least bring in some medicine and self-medicate to make sure they DON’T infect us all.

Do they do that? Nope, they whine and complain about it and then someone ask the obvious question, “Why didn’t you just stay home?” Well, DUH! They don’t have anymore sick days and we all have to endure the hacking and coughing. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

My plea is to save AT LEAST one or two sick days for actually sick days.

Have you done this and used up your sick days? As I’ve said already, I have…sometimes