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

I've never taken a day off work for sickness either! I'm just the kind of person you hate [smiley face]!

However, having said that, I would take a day off if it meant I would infect my colleagues. But there's also a balance between that and leaving them in the lurch if they're short staffed.
 
Personally, I agree with the OP. If you're ill, **** off. I don't want you making me (and the rest of the office) ill due to some misplaced feeling you're helping and 'being a trooper'. You're not. All you're doing is making it more likely that more people are going to go off sick, so you go from one person not being in to 1/2 the office calling in sick.
 
The OP is misleading.

A cold is not a valid reason to have a day off. You cannot also have a day off with flu.
I am 25 years old and have only had flu once, which was full blown fresher flu. I could barely get out of bed for a week and felt so **** I wish I had been in labs. One lab session I could not miss and standing up for two hours felt like an eternity.

I tend to think those who have time off with a cold are the lazy ones who just want to skive off for a few days.

What is not acceptable though is going to work with a cold and sneezing everywhere, as you can do it into a tissue and keep it to yourself. I work alongside hourly paid conractors who would be furious if I shared my germs with them as they get no sick pay.

As with the weather, the British love to complain about ailments and some people really do convince themselves they are ill.
 
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I hate going into work with a blazing cold but last winter I was determined to get there and help out. Work is 15 miles for me and the village was inaccessible by road because of the worst flooding in 150 years so I walked the last few miles in torrential rain and my shoes were letting water in. When I got there, I was greeted by the manager saying 'why do you look so ******* miserable? I've been here since 5am' (this was at 11.30). Gratitude. Gotta love it.

Thankfully the area manager appreicated the effort and I was offered a case of beer/cider of my choice as thanks which for my company is rather generous. Earned a drink that night :p

OpenToSuggestions said:
The OP is misleading.

A cold is not a valid reason to have a day off. You cannot also have a day off with flu.
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If you work around food like I do, then you really shouldn't work if you have either. If it's a sniffle then fine, don't play on it but if your nose is like a tap and you're sneezing every 10 seconds it's not only going to put customers off seeing that happening around their food but could pass it on to them too.
 
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A few lemsips and some airwaves, pack of tissues all you need.

By the time you realise you have a cold, the whole office has it anyway.
 
I send people home if they've got a cold. I don't want it anywhere near me or anyone else. Bosses who think its a good idea to have viruses in the workplace aren't really bosses or are acting like idiots.
 
If the op enters the Secret Santa this year and I draw him I'm going to get him some tampons :D

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Damn his postcount is too low
 
Lysander said:
Such an annoying expression.
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I agee, and it's probably the first time I've ever said it ;)

OpenToSuggestions said:
The OP is misleading.

What is not acceptable though is going to work with a cold and sneezing everywhere, as you can do it into a tissue and keep it to yourself. I work alongside hourly paid contractors who would be furious if I shared my germs with them as they get no sick pay.
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As one of the aforementioned hourly paid contractors, it's very high on my list of reasons I hate selfish idiots that come in to work infecting everyone in their path, although, to be fair, even when I was a full time employee I still hated them.
 
What about the parents who send their sick children in to school? Kids who are streaming with cold, or vomiting, or have chicken pox, or whatever.... they just send 'em to school as normal.
 
can't you carry an infection for up to a couple weeks before you actually get it? chances are if you caught it off someone, you've probably caught it before they have even shown symptoms.
 
Dolph said:
You need to work in the public sector, unnecessary absence is more acceptable there...
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I do. The policy actually encourages you to take more time off, than individual instances. (i.e. 3 days is the same as one day etc). The policy where I work has been pretty tough for the past two years.
 
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