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

Every year there 2 or 3 rounds of "heavy cold" that go around - in general your going to get it - through work, kids or just being out and about.
 
If you can get in, get in. If you give the sniffles to a colleague I expect the same from them.

No-one can be 100% all of the time.
 
I always get a cold this time of year due to my daughter going back to school. Invariably my house ends up as a breeding ground for every germ known to man. I felt dreadful last week, but still went to work. If I'm going to feel like crap, I damn well want to be getting paid for it :)
 
Gilly said:
If you can get in, get in. If you give the sniffles to a colleague I expect the same from them.

No-one can be 100% all of the time.
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This pretty much. If you're vomiting or it's coming out the other end, fair enough, but if you've got a cold or a cough, take some medicine and man up.

I'm lucky I have a good immune system though, as working in a school it's pretty much a walking disease factory most of the year.
 
Davey_Pitch said:
This pretty much. If you're vomiting or it's coming out the other end, fair enough, but if you've got a cold or a cough, take some medicine and man up.

I'm lucky I have a good immune system though, as working in a school it's pretty much a walking disease factory most of the year.
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Exactly. Girling one off because you have a bit of a cough is pretty weak.
 
A cold is a cold though, that's not being proper sick is it, you can still get up and do everything with a cold.

I go into work with a cold, but not with anything which actually makes me feel unwell (not just run down).

If I didn't go into work every time I was run down or suffering some minor health complaint I'd probably never be in work.
 
Spunkey said:
If I'm going to feel like crap, I damn well want to be getting paid for it :)
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this works for me, but i don't get ill that often anyway, i think it's because i work with lots of GPS (general public scum) i've built a pretty good immune system.

get out there and level up that immune system. :/
 
Angilion said:
Your predicate is wrong and your conclusion is therefore wrong (and doesn't follow from the predicate anyway).

In other words, you're talking rubbish.

People who are ill don't get the same quantity and quality of work done. Illness also makes a workplace more unpleasant, which has some adverse effect on work, but that's harder to quantify.

Say, for example, someone comes into work with a highly infectious disease. It's not a particularly bad disease (e.g. a cold), but it reduces their effectiveness. In some jobs it would reduce it quite a bit, in other jobs less so. They'll be a bit slower physically and a bit slower mentally and a bit distracted by the sneezing and the mucous dripping out of their nose and the discomfort. It's far from crippling, but it has some effect. They'll have to spend some time dealing with the symptoms - not much time in any one go, but little bits of time quite frequently. Overall, in terms of quantity and quality of work, maybe they're at about 80% of normal.

So if they come in, their employer gets 80% of normal work for their wages. Which is obviously better for the employer than paying them in full to stay home and therefore getting no work for their wages...but while at work they infect 2 other people, who in turn infect 5 other people and now the employer has 8 people working at 80%, a loss of 160% of the work of one person, i.e. more of a loss than the original 1 person staying at home on full sick pay.

In short, it's not obvious and clear-cut which course of action is a smaller cost to the employer.

I'd say that a cold is probably not enough illness to justify time off sick, but I wouldn't completely rule out the possibility that it might be a lesser cost for the employer and it's better for other employees.
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Flawless logic...

...if you ignore the fact the other 7 people that got it would almost certainly get it themselves in due course and you were probably already contagious before you started to show symptoms anyway. All that happens is you get 8 people off there game in the space of a week or 2 instead of 8 people taking a day or 2 off work over the course of maybe a month. Efficiency wise, 8 people giving 640% for a few days is better than 8 people giving 0% but staggered.
 
I try and stay clear of people with infectious germs but it can't be helped sometimes and catching their bugs is going to happen.

I've always thought better to get most cold/flu germs younger and let the immune system deal with the various strains of alternating contagious virus. In the long run when you get older and your body has sampled a strain of something nasty then you're response will be stronger and put you in a better position for treatment medically. Might not seem like a good virus at the time but in the future you never know.

Always wash hands when you can or have some hand sanitizer product.

And as the weather gets colder its a good excuse for gloves for hand/germ protection in public.
 
In my place you are allowed upto 3 days sick leave per annum before you forfeit salary increments. If you take 6 days sick leave per annum (or more) it is at the discretion of your Line Manager whether or not you should be downgraded.
 
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you got cold? hit the gym it will warm your muscle up and get rid of the virus. make sure your hit the treadmill... i heard its a virus terminator machine.
 
i would always come in if it's just a cold. some people won't have the choice though as they would not be paid

i'd agree someone sneezing and coughing is not desirable to be around though! :p
 
Paracetamol generally floors any cold I get...and it costs like 27p a box.

It's still no excuse for the idiots who hack and cough and sneeze into the communal air and don't wash their hands.

I remember some total scumbag sneezed directly onto the back of my neck once in a lecture when I was at university...two days later I had a cold.

Sneeze into your elbow.
 
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