I've taken on covering the duty manager on the night shift where I work over the Christmas period (despite saying I'd never do nights again) and its killing me - I'm barely hanging on when my sleeping fits the pattern but slightest thing knocks my sleeping out - I've been up now since 2pm yesterday and would normally be sleeping but I'm wide awake.
Coming into work when ill?
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I've taken on covering the duty manager on the night shift where I work over the Christmas period (despite saying I'd never do nights again) and its killing me - I'm barely hanging on when my sleeping fits the pattern but slightest thing knocks my sleeping out - I've been up now since 2pm yesterday and would normally be sleeping but I'm wide awake.
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I feel your pain. Thing is once I am up with my lad I can't get back to sleep. Last night I finished at midnight, went o bed at 2:15 am back up at 7 this morning and back in work at 3pm and I can say it will be a late one as I have a weak team on, just 3 of us from 3pm. A big festive fayre booking of 29 (thats starters, main and puddings. I'll be doing it all as the other two staff will be doing other things), another 120+ booked in from 5pm till 8/9 pm. I think it will be a 9pm/9:30pm starting to clean time which will knock on the finishing time. I'm thinking a 1:30 finish tonight and again I will be up early if the wife is feeling a bit crappy.
Never ending
Edit: I will be glad when xmas is over and we can get back to finishing at 10:30-11pm and getting at least 6 hours sleep. Being over worked and tired is just as bad as actually being ill with the flu or other things
Never ending
Edit: I will be glad when xmas is over and we can get back to finishing at 10:30-11pm and getting at least 6 hours sleep. Being over worked and tired is just as bad as actually being ill with the flu or other things
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Jeez it's a common cold not Ebola, and anyway I thought most of you lot wanted to see us old `uns dead and buried, so giving us a cold or `flu might be a start
I probably have it way easier than you - no kids for a start and probably less responsibilities so more chance to catch some sleep at other times :s
I work in a health related job in a small highsteet shop and have appointments with people from all ages (the youngest child I've seen was around 8 months old and the oldest adult was 100!)...however my employers don't pay sick pay and if you take a day off it comes out of your annual leave (or unpaid). I'm not a mega earner (dreaming of getting to high rate tax although I doubt it'll happen) and so whilst logically it makes sense for me to take time off if ill there's obviously pressure not to do so.
How do you balance that equation? Come in to work knowing that you're working with people who are in the high risk groups for illness, or be selfless and not get paid whilst stirring ill will with your employers as a day of appointments gets cancelled? Ultimately everyone comes in to work and it's rare in the non-summer months for all the staff to be healthy. Everyone cross infects.
How do you balance that equation? Come in to work knowing that you're working with people who are in the high risk groups for illness, or be selfless and not get paid whilst stirring ill will with your employers as a day of appointments gets cancelled? Ultimately everyone comes in to work and it's rare in the non-summer months for all the staff to be healthy. Everyone cross infects.
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Hmm, I've never worked for a company that HASN'T paid more than SSP
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A lot of businesses don't offer sick pay as employees take the ****
This is the reason I take time off when ill rather than 'bravely' struggling in. If I've got a full on cold then my thinking is going to be muddied. Any work I actually get round to doing I'll only have to do again or check thoroughly when I feel better anyway. Also, a couple of days rest and I'm generally over it. If I stress my body out by traipsing into work then it takes far longer to get well.
I don't get sick pay as I'm self employed, but it also means I can work from home whenever I like, so if I'm ill, I'll avoid the office and just stay at home. I find it unfair when people come in coughing and sneezing everywhere when they are clearly quite poorly, case of the sniffles, fine but if you're really quite unwell then please stay at home.
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People come in because they think it makes them look or feel heroic whereas infact they're just a bloody nuisance!
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You're assuming that the virus only spreads once the infected signs begin. You've probably already given it to co workers when you start showing signs of having a cold.
May as well just go in.
May as well just go in.
I used to do this a lot and got in trouble (I work in naval defence) for it some 5 years ago. I had the same attitude that I didn't want to risk spreading my nasties around. After my manager had a word with me he stated that my absence record is more important as that is what HR looks at to determine if you're worth an annual salary raise (lol). I began looking after myself a lot better - washing my hands etc after the morning commute and hugely improving on the rate at which I caught colds.
It is so horribly easy to catch a cold if you use public transport for work, sometimes you just can't get away from it.
I have a load of direct reports in the office and if anyone comes in with a cold/flu I tell them to **** off and work from home as a) it’s stupid and b) they’ll spread it to everyone else.
If people can work from home (which mine can) I say do it. The macho bull **** “Just work through it” is counter productive in the long run.
