Got a bad cold? DON'T GO INTO WORK YOU SELFISH ****

Hellsmk2 said:
Blame the companies that frown on it, or issue warnings for a certain number of sicknesses.

No brown-nosing involved - I value the money my job provides.
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I agree the nhs hospital i work has a sickness policies and they can actually dismiss you for too many sick days (its a long process for that.) so actually even 4 occasions of sickness in one year will start ringing alarm bells.


Telescopi said:
I very rarely get the office cold. If I do get ill I make sure I come into work, because it's always a good one and knocks out half the staff for weeks ;)
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lol please dont be a scrooge and give them colds you big meanie ;) (dont hurt me ill send cake :D)
 
I don't understand - did you swap man fluid in the mens toilet ?

MTFU and get the Whiskey out .

I have had a cold all week but have just done a 65 hour week with it.
 
Monserrat said:
Ahhh "man flu", one of my pet hates. It's either a cold or a flu. Cold = I go to work. Flu = floors you, don't go to work. Man flu = a hypochondriac with a cold trying to pass it off as being a flu.[..]
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The only time I have ever heard "man flu" mentioned is from people deriding men, i.e. pure sexism and nothing else. It's usually the first mention of the word "flu".

I have heard many people of both sexes referring to colds and flu as being the same thing, usually in the context of saying that someone with a cold is "all flu'd up". It's not sex-specific.

"man flu" is just sexist derision of men in general and men who are "weak" enough to be ill in particular. It's akin to the Victorian beliefs about women being hysterical and irrational, blah blah blah.
 
D.P. said:
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It is also a big myth that sneezing and coughing is some how spreading diseases.
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Do you have proof of that? Without evidence, I'll place more weight on the word of every medical body than I do on the word of one person I don't know.
 
My opinion on this is the whole making other people ill factor.

The close team I work in last year was 3 guys and myself. 1 got ill, came in and made another ill, then I got ill.. there was only 1 person who wasn't in. The rest of us were working from home or in the office and not that efficient.

In a building with air conditioning which just spreads the germs it isn't ideal.
 
You caught a cold from your co worker on Friday? Were you French kissing them? I had a cold that lasted a week and it took 3 more days after it ended for my girlfriend to show symptoms.
 
Bear said:
Many work places would frown at you for being off with a cold, sure its a pain to get it but it's hardly a big deal.
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Unless your sinuses are blocked and you end up feeling like the front of your face has been hit by a truck from the inside.

Cold's can make you feel pretty awful, however I will go to work if it's just a normal one.
 
Just be glad it's not Ebola or the black death and get on with it...


Unless it's manflu and then all you need is a young priest and an old priest to try and exorcise that evil and failing that perform last rights....
 
Given the draconian sick/absence policies of many firms these days, taking a day off just because you've got a cold simply isn't an option....many jobs you cannot choose to work from home or do not have sick pay schemes, and even those that do are often not paid for the initial three days. In many firms being off sick opens you up to disciplinary procedures, it's simply isn't worth it for a common cold.
 
D.P. said:
It is also a big myth that sneezing and coughing is some how spreading diseases. Many of your common colds are only spread through physical touch and then ingestion.
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O,rly!

Ohio State University said:
The common cold is highly contagious. It is often spread through airborne droplets that are coughed or sneezed into the air by the contagious person and then inhaled by another person. Colds can also be spread by hand-to-hand or hand-to-infected-surface contact, after which a person touches his or her face.
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http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/patien...ces/infectious_diseases/cold/Pages/index.aspx

Angilion said:
Do you have proof of that? Without evidence, I'll place more weight on the word of every medical body than I do on the word of one person I don't know.
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Its a combination of ways, primarily through the transference of bacteria through sneezing and coughing and the contamination of hands and surfaces thereof. DP has gotten it a little confused and separated the initial expulsion with the subsequent contamination leading to the spread of infection.
 
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Angilion said:
"man flu" is just sexist derision of men in general and men who are "weak" enough to be ill in particular. It's akin to the Victorian beliefs about women being hysterical and irrational, blah blah blah.
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Ahhh didn't know it was a sexist thing. Thought it was men just trying to make out that they have worse than a cold.
 
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