One in three UK workers admit to calling in sick at work due to being too hungover
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/one-in-three-call-in-sick-due-to-hangover-5HjdF6d_2/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
One in three UK workers admit to calling in sick at work due to being too hungover
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/one-in-three-call-in-sick-due-to-hangover-5HjdF6d_2/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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Meanwhile, we can’t use work funds to get a glass of wine with the Xmas dinner out.
I used to do this occasionally when I was young enough to have big nights out on a school night.
But I always reasoned that since I never called in sick usually, whereas the average person takes a few days a year off sick, then I was kind of entitled to about two days a year where I just couldn’t be bothered getting out of bed.
>*Data showed 31% of the country’s workforce have bunked off following drinks at work-related events.*
One in three sounds too high, unless they are going back several years and counting one-offs like young employees at their first staff Christmas do. The last couple of places I’ve worked, I’m not even sure one in three drank at all.
I lowkey feel a bit stupid for not taking any sick days, if I feel terrible but can still rise I end up just having a WFH day. I’ve just always had good attendance be it school or work. But like the daya are there. Maybe a scheduled menty B day is overdue
The article basically cobbles a think tank wanting taxes to rise on booze in case workers dare have a drink outside of work with something wanting wellbeing to improve.
Drinking cultures at work has massively reduced in the last 20 odd years. The think tank just seems to want to create drones for work.
I would have thought cheap booze in supermarkets would be a bigger problem tbh, not work dos
Thing is, if you’re so hungover you can’t do your job, you are, in fact, too ill to work.
That the illness is self-inflicted is irrelevant, and should continue to be so.
No shit. People have done this at least once for years! Nothing new.
Working when your hungover is great, paid be hungover as opposed to rotting at home.
I mean, I’ll take a sick day simply because i want it. I’m not sure what this is implying?
How many people call in sick due to catching a cold at a social event? How many injured while doing “unnecessary” exercise? How many sick days for people with illnesses caused by unhealthy lifestyles?
People aren’t working robots, we work to allow us to live and enjoy life.
One in three, hearing that headline makes me feel proud to be British.
It’s such a reach as well, so one in three will admit it but that could have been once during their whole working life so far – one sick day out of thousands of normal work days (and maybe a few dozen days for holidays over the years). It’s bollocks statistics, negligible at its strongest.
So technically, they were sick, just not the kind HR wants details about.
The only times I’ve been hungover in the week has been after a work party / social (which my work always do midweek rather than a Friday as venues are cheaper) so no chance we’d get away with this 😂
So what? Who wants someone to come into work unwell *for any reason* and potentially make a very costly mistake as a result?
I only did it twice in 18 years. I was hugging the toilet all morning so… “Stomach bug”.
That’s why one of the companies I used to work for came up with 5 days of holiday on demand. No questions asked, and the company knows you’ll show up to work the next day because people usually took the whole week off when going off sick.
“Hi I won’t be able to come in this morning as I had some bad liquor last night” direct quote of me at 18
“see me tomorrow at 8, no excuses” the reply
In the 90s we had to work one sat morning in 8. I don’t think anyone came in without a hangover or occasionally s I did once still drunk. Problem was we all hit the pub after work on Friday. Guess what..the work got done, people were are lot happier in general at work then
When I were a lad, a couple of times I had to call in sick for the afternoon after drinking too much at lunchtime. The City around 1990 – a special time and place we’re unlikely to ever see again.
Ha! Funny this article pops up when I have chosen to do this today. I was not in the best head space to be dealing with people so I called it. Not going in.
Probably get sick pay, imagine if you didn’t how this would change.