Your job outside of fighting?

[mmaman123]

For those of you who fight or even spar hard, what do you do about your job outside of training. Like if you get black eyes or broken noses and have to go into work. Do you just say "yeah it happened in training" and your boss is fine with it or do you have ways around it or what?

 

[pox]

My office is fairly small and most of the interactions are over the phone with counter partys so there no real issue coming in with blackeyes and shuch.. just maybe a bit of tessing thats it. Also I live in Canada, so if I want to hide what happend to visator I can just say Hockey and most people will not care after that.

 

[Steakeater**]

I usually get cut lips and I tell people that I peeled off the skin

 

[TheLeo]

When someone asks me about a bruise or a cut I look them right in the eyes and say: "The first rule is you don't talk about fight club."

There are no questions after that. :icon_chee

 

[mmaman123]

Nice...although I can imagine saying that to my boss and them saying: "ha ha.....But seriously why is your face like that"....awkward.

Its at this point id pull out a flying knee.

 

[Endo]

I usually get cut lips and I tell people that I peeled off the skin

Lulz... that just makes you sound crazy.

 

[thirteen]

When my legs are cramped up because too many leg kicks got through and I'm hobbling around people laugh and ask how training went. lol

 

[mmaman123]

I suppose like I work in an office and everythings quite official and i dont know how to explain a black eye. Like im sure if i say it happened while at MT they'll say how coming into work like that is inappropriate and I was wondering if anyone else is in the same boat?

 

[TheLeo]

Seriously, the only ugly injury I had to wear to work was a nasty busted knuckle I got when I was shadowboxing at home and hit a wall (yes, alcohol was probably involved...)

I had to explain to like a dozen people in the office why I had this big bandage on my knuckle. As embarrassing as the truth was I told it anyways and no one said anything negative about it, at least not to my face.

I've worked in HR and if you're concerned about this affecting your work I'd do the following: (Note: Outside the US these rules might not apply)

1) Don't let it affect your work. As long as you don't deal with customers/clients/business partners face-to-face you should be okay.
2) Don't make a big deal out of it. If there's a problem make sure it's someone else's problem and not yours. You're just a guy who trains in Muay Thai and this is just a part of training, like runners getting shin splints. Not a big deal.
3) If the boss has a problem that the two of you can't work out talk to someone in HR (if you have an HR department). As long as your injuries aren't affecting your work this should get swept under the rug.

The only issues I could see besides this is if you are consistently coming in with a face that looks like raw hamburger and it's bothering other people. That might lead to you getting terminated, just to keep the peace.

Or if you start having excessive health-insurance claims that might become an issue to.

In any case if you end up getting terminated for sports-related injuries you will be able to get unemployment compensation, and you might still get a good reference to.

 

[Rulk]

I deliver newspapers from 2am-6am... so, I really don't see to many people.

 

[theSkeptiks]

I have my own office and am on the phone most of the day so not too many people see me, but everyone I work with, even clients out-of-state know I fight so they don't think anything of it if I have to travel and see them, other then thinking I'm crazy for doing it.

 

[noobsterish]

i work at a car wash, usually just say "u should see the other guy"

 

[Karysk]

Managerial Accounting/Business administration major (Senior)
Nothing better than working on consolidation worksheets, then fighting the next day:icon_lol:

Generally my injuries are hidden by clothing, so the limp is easy to hide. But if I get a black eye I just explain that I need to learn to keep my hands up better. Makes all the students freaked out, which is very entertaining.

 

[sethk]

I work in sports medicine...so I'm surrounded by athletes all day...Most of them know I train and if I have any visible damage they usually just go "whats the other guy looks like". If they don't know then most are interested when they find out that's what I'm into

 

[panamaican]

My business partner is a kempo blackbelt and he's usually more bruised than me.

 

[Marvin Covar]

I work as an editorial assistant for a men's magazine. I've told them right off the bat that I train and compete, so they don't give me shit when it comes to coming to work with cuts and bruises.

 

[jimBoSlice]

i work under assets protection at best buy. i havent had a black eye/broken nose or any other major visible injuries yet, besides maybe some minor tweaks in my knee.*knock on wood*

 

[element0]

Software eng. I don't fight to compete though, during tough leg kicking days I'd come in limping. I'd tell them I did heavy squats so I'll be limping the whole week. Really don't want people to know just coz I don't want to have to explain the sport or why I like it. Doing purely boxing now but coach haven't really made me spar with someone yet so no bruises or bloody nose for now.

 

[mmaman123]

Software eng. I don't fight to compete though, during tough leg kicking days I'd come in limping. I'd tell them I did heavy squats so I'll be limping the whole week. Really don't want people to know just coz I don't want to have to explain the sport or why I like it.QUOTE]


You see thats interesting to me. I think I feel like that too but i dont know why. Its strange that we still feel the need to cover it up a bit and say something like "oh it happened in hockey or football". There is still a type of taboo around it. Either that or your work would be annoyed that you are going out intentionally getting hit and then coming in to work with a raw ham face.

 

[welts]

IT support

Black eyes and limping.

I just say 'training injury' and people usually can tell from my tone i dont want to elaborate and leave it be.