GET YOUR LAZY REAR ENDS TO WORK!!!
I have had it with everyone calling out sick! I guess no one wants to work these days. In my day, we didn’t call in sick. We called in dead! If we got a cold, we went to work. If we got the flu, there we were, ready to work long hours. The thought of abandoning our coworkers and those who depend on us? How horrible. If we got a GI bug, we came to work and threw up somewhere inconspicuous. Pneumonia? We huffed and puffed but there we were, ready to serve. Polio? We gimped along and certainly didn’t imagine asking for days off! Smallpox? It didn’t stop the pioneers of this great nation and it certainly didn’t stop us! We didn’t let a little rash stop us from our life-saving responsibilities. Leprosy? Of course, we were there, lending a hand… or maybe some fingers or whatever else might fall off… but we were there!
SO don’t whine about “I need to QUARANTINE because I might have COVID.”
Put on your big boy and big girl pants and get your lazy rear ends to work. You have a job to do. Make me proud and keep America great.
Anyway, that’s what we did in my day and we were happier, too!
I laughed my head off as it is so true. I don’t think I ever took a day off in five and a half years in residency nor in my 31 years of practice. I would have bowed out temporarily if I was really sick but I was lucky. No puking or fevers. Oh man, puking would knock me out as would a 100 degree temp but that didn’t happen while I was practicing. I lucked out. Kurt (happily retired now)
Thank you.
Reminds me of my first month of Internship. I got a 102 temp at work. I took my temperature and showed my resident. Without missing a beat, he asked me, “What do you want, a lollipop?”
I hear this all the time. People have the sniffles and they don’t go to work.
They might stub their toe and not go to work.
I keep hearing about all the job openings in the economy. Yet when you try to go someplace to a restaurant, locally owned business and they’ve got their hours cut back because nobody shows up.
Walmart and those big box stores have replaced cashiers with self check out. Yet many expect and think they deserve more money.
I’m not sure what people think especially the younger generations. Get up go to work; get two jobs if you have to, get up and go to work!!!
I have nurse ‘friends’ that call in ‘sick’. But they don’t stay at home. They instead work a COVID shot clinic or testing clinic where they’re paid twice as much for easy work, funded by the federal government.
Nurses finally come back once they’re ‘well’.
Everyone knows what’s really going on, but nothing is done because we need them so bad.
I can understand being tempted by the easy money, but to abandon friends and patients, it’s just not good enough.