What's The Worst Shape You've Been In And Still Went To Work?

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hellionthesagereborn · Accepted Answer

Well one time I went to work so sick that I woke up and got so dizzy I literally FELL back into my bed, passed out, managed to then crawl out of bed stumbled to work (I mean stumble, I couldn't stand straight let alone walk), got cussed out for being late and in mid cuss out they stopped to ask what is wrong as I had to grab a table to try and catch myself from falling at which point they told me to go prep everything and then I could go home (I worked in a restraunt by the way and yes, this is normal for restraunts don't be delusional in thinking they send sick people home (they didn't even let a sick guy stay home during covid. Do you know what vomit looks like shooting out of a face mask? I do. I do.)). So after a few hours of trying not to cut off fingres while swaying back and forth and seeing double (no easy feat) I was led to a table and written up for being late while nearly falling out of the chair, then I went home and slept for 30 plus hours straight, woke up and went to the bathroom, ate some food, then after about being up for two hours, passed out for another 14.

The lessoned I learned is. . . don't ever fucking come in to work sick, you will be miserable and they will treat you like shit because you are a robot in their eyes and your not allowed to be sick, but if you call in thanks to employee manual guarentees you do get to call in sick without them ever being able to do anything to you (So long as you follow the rules in the manual).

coachTanthony · Accepted Answer

--------Stayed up with a buddy of mine until 4 am drinking and carrying on. My flight left at 530 am. Didn't get any sleep and had a layover in chicago for 4 hours before flying to my final destination. No where to sleep in the airport. Was nauseous the entire time. Didn't get to my hotel room until 7pm which then I had a work dinner to attend. You can say I never did anything that foolish again. Big learning lesson. Don't drink the day before a travel day.

"A hangover is just your body reminding you that you are an idiot."
~Coach T Anthony @thedatecoach IG

DeeDeeDeVour · Accepted Answer

After staying awake nearly 72 hours straight working with disaster relief teams to aid calamity victims in typhoon-stricken Philippines, my body started to weaken alarmingly due to extreme fatigue. Though I didn't collapse, I felt like I nearly did. My boyfriend then (husband now) rushed me back to base camp which, unfortunately, wasn't nearby and being continuously battered by the passing super typhoon. He was also dead tired & fatigued. We found shelter in a tent already filled with suffering victims.

Just when we finally started to fall into much-needed deep sleep, our tent was ripped by the strong winds and blown away. With whatever little re-charge we got from our nap & food rations, we immediately went back to work aiding the victims that were also sharing our tent.

It took another 10 hours before we were relieved by another team of volunteers.

hannahjo022 · Accepted Answer

I have epilepsy and I had a seizure while I was up getting ready for work. I woke up in my bed confused how I got in my bed and was wearing my work clothes ready for work. Realized I had a seizure and went to work that day. That day was so awful and felt like crap the entire day at work. Couldn't keep my eyes open, so sleepy, my head was so foggy, my head hurt like hell, and that day I did not remember anything at work. When you have a seizure all you want to do is sleep and when I got out of work that's what I did for the rest of the day when I got home.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

When I was a Middle School and Senior High School. I was on a diet that I ate just a little bit of food plus I would exercise and that was the worst thing I could ever do
I developed low blood sugar / I had to eat more food to bring my sugar up/ I loss over 100 lbs but as these symptoms went on, after graduation, I slowly gained it all back then I developed mental health illnesses at age 21, by the time I reached my 30's I was weighing over 300 lbs, then I was diagnosed with Low T, Diabetes, High Blood pressure, and Sinus Tachycardia but since all of that I once again lost 100 lbs again and now I want to reach 60 lbs to reach my goal.. Life was a battle with parents arguments., my dad and his drinking, bullies from School

hearvoices · Answer

About 12 years ago I got hit with a flu virus that rendered me bedridden for nearly a week. But I tried to work on that first day and I made through half a shift and then I was done. I didn't leave voluntarily though. My boss ordered me to go home and come back when I felt better. I tried to argue, but she was firm. I must have looked like shit. Sure felt like it. The shakes, the vomiting, the aches were more intense than any flu I ever had. It's the sickest I've ever been. I lost over 10 pounds. It took me over a week after I felt better to regain all of my energy.

Andres77 · Answer

Last trip to Afghanistan, working in the ops center. There were weeks that we had multiple teams running missions. I'd go two days up, 6-7 hours sleep and two days up and 6-7 hours sleep. I'd do that 3 or 3 times, sleep normal for a day then go back to that.
That's when the ticking in my ears started. It's a form of tinnitus but it's not ringing, it's ticking. Like the sound of the Aswang.
I've also got a sleep disorder that started after that trip. I need Ritalin to stay awake if I'm ever sitting and doing paperwork. If I'm on my feet All day I'm fine.
I don't have trouble sleeping at night, unlike many of the guys I worked with.

aintnocandle · Answer

I had my nose done a week before I started a new job in IT programming. I recently had my stitches removed (around each nostril), and I couldn’t touch or clean the area so I had black crust outlining my entire nose and inside my nostrils... just filled with black and red crusted blood in chunks and scabs. First week at my new job and I had to take my ID photo and go out to lunch and meet my new team. I looked disgusting lmao

MrJMM · Answer

Well in my situation since I'm still in high school but here we go. I had a midterms week and I didn't study for my biology midterm so my body panicked. I was vomiting, had a migraine, had dizziness and my body refused to work. So the midterm started I took a shower, took medicine, took a lot of sips of an electrolyte drink. It was late 7 minutes because an idiot decided it was a good idea to fucking drive into me and the driver took the head of the window and yelled “fuck you bitch ass niggah!!!” and I panicked because the driver was fucking driving into me! I went in and I had a panic attack. I took meds later it was ok, I did the midterm I scored a 96%. But it was just terrifying and miserable I wished like 37 times that I was dead.

MotorcycleMan · Answer

Well, besides the obvious times I went in with what felt like a Category V hangover and a full-body sprain, I have gone to work heavily concussed after a car accident and also went back to work on a Monday following surgery on Friday (usual recuperation time 30 days).

Lliam · Answer

I worked for a great company for 30 years. I had lots of paid sick leave. So I tended to call in sick when I wasn't feeling well.
I did have a kidney stone once. It went on for quite a while. It was very painful to the point of sometimes being nauseous, but didn't incapacitate me so I had to work. It finally passed.

ohshee · Answer

For me I think it was when I was a triangle you know how hard it is to get into a car being a triangle. Yeah I'm hard it was to walk so I started eating a lot but then I became a square for a few days I couldn't fit through the fucking door of my house I kept hitting the door frame every time I would try to leave or come back home so I started eating more Donuts no I'm round now I can just roll around any place I want to go. I don't even have to use the car anymore

Slartybartfast · Answer

Went out on new years eve, I'm in a different city.

I'm supposed to be off and not in call.

I get called in because of a network outage. I was a wan engineer for a major Telco interchange between several networks (sprint, at&t, PAC bell, bell south etc)

I've got most of a fifth of vodka in me. I have to take a taxi ($250 ride lol) I come in , hardly able to stand but I got the network up and running, passed out on an old as400 system because it was warm in the cold room.

exitseven · Answer

I turned my ankle on a slippery storm grate. I could feel it pop so I knew it was bad. I still had to go to work because I had no sick time. I spent the whole day on my feet. I kept a pair of high top sneakers in my office so I didn;'t have to wear boots all day. By the end of the day it was so swollen I couldn't get my boot back on. When I got home my wife took my socks off and looked at it. It was all purple, even my toes were purple. I had it x-rayed but fortunately it was just a bad sprain.

_bunny_ · Answer

This was earlier this year I've found out my husband cheated on me and have been trying to cheat on me with several other women and I also found out he had a porn addiction and had seen way too much porn and I was fucked in the head I slapped a smile onto my face and went to work

natured · Answer

Years ago : With 1 hour sleep, hangover, broken heart because my ex broke up with me, and periods all within 24 hours.. worse day ever and when I got home i found my new dress that i had to wear the next day for my best friends wedding ripped and ruined completely because i forgot it hanging in my room and my cats used it as a scratch tower... ...
I had all gods against me that day
- sight -

PaynefulPleasures · Answer

The night my husband passed away sickness flooded me. The next day I had papers to sign, viewed his body, more waves of sickness, luckily the deacon of the church was very helpful. An evening & day I never want to experience again 😞💔🥀

aWes0MeNeSs · Answer

It's hard to say! I try really hard not to miss work if I don't absolutely have to. I've been to work feeling like shit several times. The worst has probably been when I've been injured or pulled something pretty badly, though.

JSmuve · Answer

I was 19. Went out drinking the night before and woke up hungover. I didn't have anything to eat before I went to work and was super dehydrated throughout the day. I honestly thought I was gonna throw up. Keep in mind that I stocked shelves for my job and was always on my feet moving stuff, so not eating and being dehydrated just destroyed me. I was so weak and barely made it though the day. Didn't do that again.

bannacookies · Answer

I got super sick a few years back. I was baby sitting a kid whose mother said had a little cold. Well, two days later I ran 103, got strep and then Epstein barr. And that lasted a month (though no longer contiguous) I still was subbing for dance instructors then... probably why it took me so long to recover.

Jenngirl00 · Answer

I had pneumonia, but I had No idea. It had been going around work and I could not figure out why I could not breath. I have also had it where I had a seizure the day before and could barely move and still worked

DarkCarousel · Answer

I went to work feeling miserable and later found out that I had strep-throat and a double ear infection.  I’ve been at work during horrible periods and also totally lacking sleep.

Wiredone · Answer

I had a thick pipe fall off the rafters in a barn. It hit me in the head and gave me a concussion. I was throwing up, had a severe headache and blurry vision. I still finished out the day.

Another time I was using a rachet hole punch to make a hole in a metal panel. I was using my chest as leverage against the panel. I ended up breaking 3 ribs. It hurt to breathe, laugh, twist, sneeze and cough. I wrapped duct tape around my chest so I can finish the job.

kinkyguy45 · Answer

I’ve left the ER and reported to work after IV pain killers. I’ve had extreme vomiting and dysentery and ran several times from the job site. I’ve walked off the job and into the ER For a multiple day stay with a life threatening heart condition only cause I was almost blacking out. I’ve been afflicted with mind blowing kidney stone pain for months and came to work... I’ve gone days without sleep and been hallucinating at work... I don’t know which is the worst to be honest...

DocJones · Answer

It was definitely in my early 20's when going out with friends and drinking all night then going to work hung over. I remember one night in particular when we played some stupid drinking game and I tried to leave at about midnight and got talked in to "one more game". It's never one more game and I felt like absolute dog sh! t the next day. Drink a dozen beers, a dozen shots and sleep for about an hour before heading off to work. 🤢

DJB72 · Answer

I worked at a call centre and had to put a client on hold while I threw up, then the next caller I actually passed out.

20 minutes later I was back on the lines. 20 minutes after that I was sent home for passing out again.

Bricealan · Answer

I went to work one day, and the next day was in Emergency at Hoag Hospital. I had contracted C-dificile, probably at the gym. Was hospitalized for 45 days. If you know what C-dificile is you know how sick I was

JackSmy · Answer

LOL! Nobody will ever know!!
A "Secret" remedy, and in a half hour, even half-assing it, I am 200% beyond most of the others in my group!
Nobody is going to know, because I am not that whiner, that takes a "sick day" because they might be hung over, after St. Patrick's Day, or whatever!

A_Bell · Answer

Not work, but school. I was in second grade and had such a high fever that I had extreme vertigo. It felt like the classroom was moving in waves and that I was going up and down. I ended up projectile vomiting due to the nausea.

humanearth · Answer

I was still drunk from the night before and smelled like it to

I forced myself to go, because back then I was short on rent again. So what did I do, went drinking. My mind set in my 20s was not always the brighest.

hahahmm · Answer

Had a flu and didn't want to miss the 1st day of a new job. Took 2 weeks to recover because I wasn't getting rest. Normally it would've only taken 1 week.

Leavesbound · Answer

Up 72 hours binge writing and noticed the sun rise and realized I'd worked all night and decided to go to bed and then realized it wasn't Saturday morning but Monday morning.

wingattebaby16 · Answer

Migraine while having my period. and kinda hung over as well.

HawkPerception · Answer

No sleep and sick to the point I couldn't stop sneezing or coughing. And it was painful to eat, drink and even breathe. I'm amazed they let me work that day.

Floppy2112 · Answer

I am not sure the statute of limitations are up yet, hence I cannot say. I can say I can function rather well in some very altered realities. Nobody ever caught on to the fact I was off. It may just be nobody pays attention to me.

Inexpensivefurniture · Answer

I finished my last two years of high school while recoving from liver failure. I missed 40% of my classes but managed to pass everything and graduate with the rest of my class

TacosRAwesome · Answer

Prior to getting on the pill, I used to have a day of pain on my first day of period. Pretty much blacked out a couple times due to heat and pain.

jamesgoldman · Answer

In the restaurant, really nothing because of food hygiene laws

In my own self-employment, I've been in a hospital bed hooked to a heart monitor and still checking eBay for deals and rebooking appointments with clients over email

Anonymous · Answer

Went to work on an hour of sleep and worked a 10 hour shift (I was a manager at the time). After work I literally fell asleep while driving but got extremely lucky that I snapped out of it, and was able to hit the breaks in time.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I mistook a food poisoning (Hepatitis) for a flu. Only when I went next to unconscious, a colleague thought it wise to get me a doctor. I plan to not repeat this.

Anonymous · Answer

Broke up with my ex and had to face work. I was devastated and everyone knew at work which made it worse. My co workers were toxic and talked about my business all the time

TommyMountainFigure · Answer

I am SO brave. One occasion I went to work even after sneezing.. not once but TWICE!!! :D

KatherineJ · Answer

I went with a severe migraine a few times. Miserable.

Jaximus-Lion · Answer

Lets just say it was really bad, don't wanna talk about it and that bitch is in prison now

najekim · Answer

There times when I was playing in a band in nightclubs and lounges 4 nights a week until 1:00AM then had to drive 200 miles to get to class the next morning. It wasn't fun and I sure as hell wasn't pretty when I dragged my tired ass into class.

Account · Answer

No sleep, fever, drunk, still went and puked 2 or 3 times.

Anonymous · Answer

My ex and his friends beat the hell out of me and I spent the night at the ER and walked straight into work with broken ribs, tears and bruises over most of my body above the knees and elbows.

Exterminatore · Answer

Worked for 3 days with a torn meniscus. Only stopped working when I basically couldn’t walk anymore. Didn’t know it was torn.

blondfrog · Answer

I had Covid last year and still worked. Didn't wanna miss all those potential pay days lol. I can be stubborn in other ways but then completely open minded in other ways.

Rennitenn · Answer

Nodding out so bad on heroin they had to beg me to go home cuz I thought I was all good.  I went home. It was my last day. It was actually a decent place to work too. Damn drugs.

pleasestopthis · Answer

The worst has been having bad cramps and diarrhea because of my period, or that one time when I had a bad sinus and eye infection at the same time... I never had anything too serious, thankfully

Surely · Answer

Went to work night tern after drinking too much rum right before work. Then I was given a extremely warm job in an elevated place!

michael1469 · Answer

I have been totally shitfaced at 230am Sunday night... slept an hour and still got to work by 4am... wishing it was Friday by 9am so i could do it all over again... that phase in life is way way over

Question_091 · Answer

Coming to work dehydrated and have to work in a 89 degree kitchen, busy and no time for a break.

Titanic1912 · Answer

Just barely surviving a car accident and going to work with a smashed face.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

I went to work on 3 hours of sleep one time. (That was when I was 22. Definitely couldn't get away with that these days!!)

KrakenAttackin · Answer

I had a horrible tooth abscess and still had to fly Beech Baron from Asheville to Orlando. That sucked.

Anonymous · Answer

I fought in a war with a 103 degree fever in the desert with a massive cut on my stomach and a broken ankle.

SwitchGirl · Answer

Combo of fever and being nauseous, was too shy to just tell my boss I needed to get home.

KatieCC · Answer

Straight up hallucinating, could not walk straight, and fainted. 😎  Boss said I should leave, I did not.  We on that GRIND 😤

jimmy2 · Answer

I care gave my wife from able body to only a shell of a person. I also work a full time job  My God was i wore out everyday for 7 years it almost took my life

Marhaban-1 · Answer

Well if we are talking about school I whent in whilst recovering from listeria and got sent home. I got it on holiday and ended up in hospital in lanzarotie

Snakeyes7 · Answer

I ended up having a fever of 100 and I didn't notice until I got home that day.

Diversity_Hire · Answer

Went to work, endured a full shift, having a massive gallbladder attack.

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