Do you call in sick if hungover?

[GilaMinumBeer]

Drink on the job and have the hangover at home.

 

[DarthMalt]

I've done it once or twice; certainly nothing to make a habit of. If you don't feel well enough to work, you're sick IMO. Of course, it really depends on your work ethic...

 

[david_42]

Never in 38 years. On occasion, I've been asked to come in for emergencies after a hard night. But they can't expect one to be sober all the time!

 

[thepartsmancometh]

Drink on the job and have the hangover at home.

This is the same reasoning I use when i get drunk on Sunday afternoons. I sleep through the hangover, and I'm fine for work Monday!

 

[duckredbeard]

I work in aviation maintenance. If someone smells of alcohol (even a hangover smell) the local police administer a breathalyzer within minutes of suspicion. Showing up hungover is NOT acceptable. I certainly feel impaired when hungover, wouldn't want to do my job in a daze.

 

[mjdonnelly68]

I'd never call in hungover.

I decided early on that if I ever had to call in sick to work because of drinking I'd have to give it up and I'm WAY too young to retire...

 

[H-ost]

i'd never call in hungover.

I decided early on that if i ever had to call in sick to work because of drinking i'd have to give it up and i'm way too young to retire...

Ha CLASSIC!

 

[CBXBob]

For a while (in my 30's) my day job was motorcycle sales, night job bar tender at a rock n roll night club. Bar closed at 2am, clean up and a few with the crew. Head home as the sun rose, one or two hours sleep. At the bike shop 9am. Off at 5pm, back at bar 7pm. Repeat. Did that for 2 years, I turn 65 in November, have no idea how I've made it this far. So yes, worked hung over, and called in sick a few times. I worked for that motorcycle dealership for 13 years. I've worked maybe 5 jobs after the motorcycle dealership, and can remember calling in sick (hungover) only once. So I guess you could say I've slowed down a bit. I quit working about a year ago, now everyday is a sick day

 

[landshark]

I've only been hungover twice or 3 times going to work. Have never called in sick because of it. Typically by 11:00 I'm feeling better and am back to being constructive.

 

[kaboom505]

Never in 38 years. On occasion, I've been asked to come in for emergencies after a hard night. But they can't expect one to be sober all the time!

Not all of us can manage that. Blowing anything measurable brings all sorts of misery from my benevolent overlords.

Not worth a sick day though - best used for catching up on training and literature reviews _from home_. Or at least I understand that's what my peers do when feeling a little off...

 

[alpha224]

I have called off once for being hungover, told my manager that I had caught some kind of stomach flu that would probably last for 24 hrs... Went out one night with some friends and had to work the next morning @6, woke up still (but slightly less as) drunk from the night before and thought it was the worst hangover ever... Until I became hungover, learned my lesson that night.

 

[kh54s10]

In my younger days I had a job where I could tell them that I'd be late because I was hung over. A few times I went in feeling all right then had to go home and sleep it off.

Then I grew up. I don't put myself in that position anymore.