Sick note during internship?

Hello first of all.

I'm 18 and currently doing a two-week internship at a large production company. My health hasn't been the best for weeks, but for the past few days, it's been unbearable. I have stabbing headaches and abdominal pain, and I almost fall asleep when I stand, if I even have the strength to stand. I'm on my break right now and I regret coming here today because I feel absolutely terrible. I want to go to the doctor tomorrow to get checked out and ideally get a doctor's note for today, but I'm not sure how it will look to my "employer" if I'm absent during my internship.

Last week, I had to attend an important meeting and ended up arriving a little late for work (which was, of course, cleared up), so now I feel like I'm taking things to the extreme by calling in sick. I still have three days of my internship left, but I really need a day off; Otherwise, I won't get anything done and I might even collapse. All this heat isn't making things any better.

Would it be okay to take a day off or could the company refuse to give me an internship certificate at the end of the internship on the grounds that I wasn't there the whole time?

I don't mean that because I don't feel like working here, but really just because I can't stand being at work in this state and I realize that I'm making things worse.

Best regards ^^

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MaryLynn87
1 year ago

How important is the internship to you?

You've been putting up with it for weeks and haven't done anything yet…so it can't have been that bad after all. Could it be that you're not being completely honest and are just looking for an excuse to cut the internship short?