{"id":457,"date":"2008-01-21T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/when-you-take-a-sick-day\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T16:30:01","slug":"when-you-take-a-sick-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"When you take a sick day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;do you feel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Guilty<\/strong> like you&#8217;ve gone and selfishly removed a day&#8217;s worth of productivity<\/li>\n<li><strong>Worried<\/strong> that you&#8217;ll have so much piled up when you come back<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anxious<\/strong> because you are so essential people can&#8217;t get by without you<\/li>\n<li><strong>Relaxed<\/strong> because you&#8217;re helping yourself get better<\/li>\n<li><strong>Semi-productive<\/strong> because you end up crawling in bed with your laptop and working anyway<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>or any variation of those? I&#8217;m sick today and have been all weekend. Luckily my firm is of the &#8220;don&#8217;t come to work when you&#8217;re sick, we&#8217;ll still pay you&#8221; mindset.<\/p>\n<p>But, it makes me feel guilty. That guilt leads to semi-productiveness. And that semi-productiveness leads to me sending out emails and putting out as many fires as I can from the comfort of my home. I&#8217;m still getting rest. I have plenty of tissues at hand and I&#8217;m comfortable in my sweatpants.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I know people who don&#8217;t get (free, unlimited, or any) sick days. Are you one of those? Do you have a laptop you bring home? My suspicion is you don&#8217;t. You&#8217;re not doing guilty work at home like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;do you feel: Guilty like you&#8217;ve gone and selfishly removed a day&#8217;s worth of productivity Worried that you&#8217;ll have so much piled up when you come back Anxious because you are so essential people can&#8217;t get by without you Relaxed because you&#8217;re helping yourself get better Semi-productive because you end up crawling in bed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[585],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}