Do y'all do big jobs sick or injured

[AvantGarde]

Not minor stuff but really shouldn't be at work.

I as a HO would rather the installer wait until he's ready than to come in maybe not do the best job.

I ask this b/c I've a cousin that's be-otching to me about an install that shoulda happened mid-week (Tue-Wed) and has been put on hold 'til the installer can get over a stomach virus and dehyration.

[the dangling wrangler]

Do we really need to answer that question? Nobody wants to work when they're sick. If you can wait, then do so. What's your cousin got to do with any of this? Unless he's paying the invoice, it really isn't any of his business.

[zzonko]

Do we really need to answer that question? Nobody wants to work when they're sick. If you can wait, then do so. What's your cousin got to do with any of this? Unless he's paying the invoice, it really isn't any of his business.


cousin/spouse?

[hvaclover]

Don't know about anybody else, but all my HVAC friends and Biz owners
do work sick or injured. T

he Biz Owners have no choice if they are a one man show.

MY friends who work for companies would rather work than stay home while sick or injured, but their bosses have the final say.

One time I was hospitalized and had a friend cover a furnace install for me.
I was not very happy when I saw it.

The drawbacks of being a one man shop. But I have gone to work with broken arms, legs, stitches, blown disc (I Had pain meds).

For some guys its a badge of honor to work injured cause that's just the way their culture's work ethic is>

Just to show you how extreme it is to some people, when I was a rookie 30 years ago I was working part time for a Greek guy from the Old Country who was teaching me low temp stuff.

He got a good jolt of 460v and hospitalized for observation. I Was visiting him and his pager went off. We only had answering services than, The message was a ten ton freezer was out. He signed out of the hospital and grabbed by the scruff of the neck to help with the call.

Seven hours later he signed back in to the hospital. Now I was a young person than and am also Greek. I followed that guys example to this day.

[gcastillo]

I work under many conditions sick or not. I have worked through stomach flu, diarrhea, vomiting, and other illnesses or ailments. I fell off a ladder from about 12 ft and took about 15 minutes to see if anything was broken and got back to work. I just take a break to run to a restroom to relieve myself but get back to work. Babying yourself doesn't pay the bills and you're going to be sick working or sitting at home so I'd rather be sick while working making money. To each his own work ethic. As a service tech I don't need to work with others on installs just run service calls by myself.

[m kilgore]

Somtimes it just can't be helped. I wouldn't want a system installed by someone with the flue. I also wouldn't want the flue brought into my home.

Unless its a emergency I would rather wait.

[gcastillo]

If I show up and get turned away then that's another story but it's not because I am taking the easy way out. This is just the way I have been taught to work. You gotta work hard to play hard. May not apply to others but I was in the military and got taught that jobs need to be done wether you are sick or not.

[coolwhip]

Work smart, not hard.

[bmathews]

The only things that stop me is if I'm taking medication that can affect my driving, which is not often at all. If I feel like complete crap or have a bad case of the doo doo's. If I'm dropping a deuce every 15 minutes, I ain't leaving the house.

[mechanicalgsxr]

my dad cut off half his thumb pulling a crankshaft out of an 06e on the job...after he said **** he said hand me a 9/16 wrench... my coworker forced him to go to the hospital and he was back on the job 2 hours later

[hvaclover]

my dad cut off half his thumb pulling a crankshaft out of an 06e on the job...after he said **** he said hand me a 9/16 wrench... my coworker forced him to go to the hospital and he was back on the job 2 hours later

Thats a Texan for you. i think they and my fellow Greeks were seperated at birth.:rolleyes:

[tinner73]

what's a big job to you?