I really screwed up my back this weekend. It is really hurting so this morning I thought I might call in sick and try and rest it. I am not a call in sick guy. I think I have only taken one this year so far. So every time I am sick I feel kind of guilty about calling in. I play the what does it mean to the rest of my team if I do game in my head. It isn’t like I am coughing or contagious. I just might have to use a walker, but I could make it.  So just when I decided to call in the emails started rolling in. My team has one person on vacation and now someone else called in sick. Then I start to waiver this will mean a lot of shuffling of work around. Well, I am the manager, I don’t actually do the work so I could sit on the couch and do what I have to. Then another manager of another group emails that he is sick and staying home. I start to falter, someone has to be there if only for moral support, right? Then the dagger, one of our systems is down. That is it, if it takes a stretcher to get there I can’t stay home now. I am a sucker, but I can take ibuprofen and muddle through. Even if I get nothing done today I have to be in my seat, that is just how I role.