[sandbar]

>>>How about the lost time for the gals who use this as an excuse to take off? I just shake my head>>>

That is so crazy to me. I have never missed work due to that. I have WANTED to, but I grew up with if you are sick enough to miss school/work, you must be too sick to do ANYTHING. A habit I am teaching my children. Some people have been coddled all their lives and use this as an excuse to get out of things, (work included I guess)

[SheLion]

That is so crazy to me. I have never missed work due to that. I have WANTED to, but I grew up with if you are sick enough to miss school/work, you must be too sick to do ANYTHING. A habit I am teaching my children. Some people have been coddled all their lives and use this as an excuse to get out of things, (work included I guess)

This has become common practice, especially with women under the age of 30.  They feel it is their right to take off 1 or 2 days a month for this.  Yet I hear of no one complaining about the loss of work they have created with this "excuse."

[Modernman]

but I grew up with if you are sick enough to miss school/work, you must be too sick to do ANYTHING. A habit I am teaching my children

Studies have found that sick people who come into work are doing their employer a disservice. They infect a whole bunch of other people, which leads to more employees taking time off.

If you are actually sick, you're actually going the right thing in staying home.