Reply to: Permie keeners

[Hevra]

I prefer to go in, and then get sent home ill. Gives the boss a chance to see that I am actually ill and not skiving.. but then I guess it's different if you're a permie and get paid for being off ill...I'd rather turn up dribbling snot or whatever and spend a wasted £4 on the train than have my team thinking I'm taking the p1ss..

Hevra

[Zippy]

Yes, but the now ill contractors could ALSO come in ill, thus infecting even more people ..... with any luck the whole office of permies and contractors gets ill, the permies go on the sick, and the contractors are left in the office (they come in regardless of illness) and are free to play minesweeper all day.

Winner.

I prefer to drink (sorry, work) from home when I'm ill. I'm doing this at the moment and its much better than going into the office and having to put up with all the whining.

PS - thanks to all those 'indispensable' people who gamely struggled in and infected everyone else.

[Bagpuss]

You're either

One of those guys who constantly sports a black eye

Or just another cyber warrior hiding behind the keyboard

Hmm I wonder which

[DBA_bloke]

most of the time you sound like you are

Whister? Wilde? Shaw? No, just another desiccated cat plop from the ever productive Baggy bumhole.

[King Cnvt]

I always come in ill.

1. You get paid
2. You get a chance to give the piss taking git next to you, the one who has been saying "how's your 'man flu'?" a nasty illness.
3. You appear to put the project deadline above your own health.

[Bagpuss]

If I knew you, I'd be too out of it on lighter fluid and Harpic to be able to post on CUK!

most of the time you sound like you are

[Pondlife]

I'll always come into work if I can - ill or not. It's nothing to do with being keen, but the opportunity to get paid to come in and mope around the office (rather than lie in a hotel room) whilst looking like a hard-working member of the team is too much.

You work on my team and I claim my 2 neurofen and a sit down in trap three of the toilets upstairs for the afternoon

[TheFaQQer]

I've seen a number of such over keen permies, and even some contractors. One of their worst traits is working when they are ill, thus infecting otherwise healthy contractors who then cannot bill for a day or two while they recover.

I'll always come into work if I can - ill or not. It's nothing to do with being keen, but the opportunity to get paid to come in and mope around the office (rather than lie in a hotel room) whilst looking like a hard-working member of the team is too much.

[nucastle]

I've seen a number of such over keen permies, and even some contractors. One of their worst traits is working when they are ill, thus infecting otherwise healthy contractors who then cannot bill for a day or two while they recover.

Yes, but the now ill contractors could ALSO come in ill, thus infecting even more people ..... with any luck the whole office of permies and contractors gets ill, the permies go on the sick, and the contractors are left in the office (they come in regardless of illness) and are free to play minesweeper all day.

Winner.

[DBA_bloke]

Do you know me?

If I knew you, I'd be too out of it on lighter fluid and Harpic to be able to post on CUK!

[swamp]

I've seen a number of such over keen permies, and even some contractors. One of their worst traits is working when they are ill, thus infecting otherwise healthy contractors who then cannot bill for a day or two while they recover.

[Bagpuss]

or simply get the job done and dont bitch (if contractor)

Yes, I come on here for my cat fights. It's more camp on here than Butlins

'Clearly'

[chef]

dont worry baggy, he'll wake up one day and realise he will never get further up the ladder by impressing people with hard effort and long hrs, it's all down to being shrewd and ensuring your actually worth something to the company (if permie), or simply get the job done and dont bitch (if contractor)

[bobhope]

I always thing: don't these people have stuff to do outside work? Personally, I have a thousand (ok slight exaggeration, 950) things to be doing

[King Cnvt]

Guy who sits next to me, gets in at 730am and works until 7pm, bearing in mind it's 36.5 hour week here. He works non-stop all day every day, and takes no more than 15 minutes in breaks.

How is it possible to be so keen? He must love his job.

Maybe he's in love with you.