I have a friend who is sick 3 days out of the average week. No joke. If she ever starts telling me about how sick she feels, I try to sound uninterested, hoping that she takes the hint. If she doesn't, I change the subject.
It's not that I don't think she's sick. It just that I don't think she cares about school, or work, or anything else enough to muscle through a bit of stomach acid. Seriously, if that girl was always as sick as she makes it sound, she would have been dead at 12 years old.
When I was younger, if I wasn't feeling well, I was dragged out of bed and on to school, unless I had thrown up during the night, or was otherwise obviously ill (my mother was a nurse). After getting up and on the go, I would most times feel better. If I called home sick at some point during the day, then, my parents would know it was something to take seriously, but not after a lengthy interview, just to be sure.
And now I'm at the point that I've called in sick like ... three times in the last year, and only one of those times did I cancel the whole shift.
It's not that I don't think she's sick. It just that I don't think she cares about school, or work, or anything else enough to muscle through a bit of stomach acid. Seriously, if that girl was always as sick as she makes it sound, she would have been dead at 12 years old.
When I was younger, if I wasn't feeling well, I was dragged out of bed and on to school, unless I had thrown up during the night, or was otherwise obviously ill (my mother was a nurse). After getting up and on the go, I would most times feel better. If I called home sick at some point during the day, then, my parents would know it was something to take seriously, but not after a lengthy interview, just to be sure.
And now I'm at the point that I've called in sick like ... three times in the last year, and only one of those times did I cancel the whole shift.