Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : Let me start off by saying that I've always been prone to illness since I was an infant. From grade school and on, I would routinely get sick every 2 or 3 months, and sometimes even as little as a month after my last bout of the flu/an aggressive cold/etc. The only period in my life were I was never sick was the last two years of my high school education which I completed from home online and away from other people.

I started my grocery store job 10 months ago, and since then I've probably missed around 9 or 10 days of work, one of which was a mental health day (I suffer from OCD. Particularly intrusive thoughts, which can sometimes cause me massive amounts of anxiety for long stretches of time) and 3 for a family emergency. Another 2 of those days, I was sent home by a manager. Once from puking on a register and another for nearly passing out while ringing up groceries. The rest I called in for due to being too sick to come in.

Anyways, I know that it's highly frowned upon to miss so much work. But my immune system is super fucking bad, and when I catch a cold or flu, it hits me like a truck. On Saturday I came down with the worst flu I've had in at least a decade. Lots of puking, sneezing bloody/almost black mucus, persistent nausea, almost unable to hold down liquids, extreme body aches and chills, etc. So I've called in the last two days and plan on calling in the next two as well, as well as taking my next 3 scheduled days off.

The store manager is a nice guy but he gets visibly (audibly?) pissed over the phone when I call in, and it always makes me feel like I'm being a baby/doing something wrong. I've come in without complaint when hungover, I've come in on days off to fill in for people who were sick or to cover the shift of someone who was fired, etc. But I feel like an asshole for missing so many days of work; an amount that is nearly unheard of from my understanding.

So tell me Reddit.. Am I the asshole? Should I just suck up and go anyway with a mask and gloves?