Thursday 7 December, 2006

Blargh

Argh, I'm a little bit sick. It really sucks being just a little bit sick, not quite knowing what to do with it - if you were properly sick there wouldn't be no question, you'd just stay home and cancel all plans. But as it was, I woke up for the second morning in row with a terrible pain in my throat but otherwise fine. After a hot shower and a cup of tea I felt good enough to go to work... But then we had a staff meeting down in Granville Island, and after few hours in a very well air conditioned office, a brisk walk to the venue and sitting in an uncomfortable chair for two hours without break I decided to call it a day. Sucky thing was that I was also supposed to teach a class tonight at Sue's and I hemmed and hawed about the whole thing for the whole morning - if I go to work can I cancel the class, if I stay at work will I have enough energy to do the class, and so on. In the end I was home after noon, and called Sue to explain the situation - she was more than understanding so I went to bed with a clean conscience.

Otherwise it was a "good news" day - in the staff meeting we got to know about our bonuses and raises which are coming, and I got good news from Sue about my yin classes next year - I get a real yin slot for every other Thursday, I'll be sharing it with another yin teacher which is just perfect.

Tomorrow, please, I want to be properly well or properly sick.

Posted by kolibri at 7 December 22:12, 2006
Comments
# 1 - yoe (on December 8, 2006 04:41 AM):

Not enough sick - darn I hate the condition. And since this is one of the few places in the world where I haven't whined about this: what sucks even more than not being enough sick, is to live in a place where a day off for being sick is a day off from your holidays. No matter if you were shot in the head and needed to recover, first you use your holidays and after that, doctor permitting, you can stay at home but no pay for those days.
Obvious result is that people come to work for 2 hours, looking miserable and transmitting the sickness to others.

So, lucky you that you have the option of recovering at home! :)


# 2 - kolibri [TypeKey Profile Page] (on December 8, 2006 06:40 AM):

Wow, you're right, that would be even worse... We have it a little bit better but we're far away from Europe's liberal sick days too - we get six paid sick days a year. I've used mine by now, but I'm lucky, my company seems to still be paying me regardless - I guess they're just covering their asses and making sure that if they wanted to stop paying me they could.


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