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[ren2005]

Hey you guys...


Im at work today, and my friend who sits next to me comes in sick. She was complaining all morning that her stomach and head hurt and that she was cold. I told her to just go home. Shes like Why? Im like.. because you are sick and I certainly dont want to catch anything. Her daughter was sick last week with the bug and so I guess she is getting it now.


Anyway, yesterday after she left work I had to use her desk for awhile and touched her phone and pens. Oh great!! I hope I didnt pick up any germs... Anyway, she was really snotty with me when she was ready to leave.. she goes.. "are you happy that Im leaving now?' I was like.. Yes!!


I mean, why should she subject anyone else to getting sick???? Especially NOW at Christmas!


I am having my long distance boyfriend coming in tonite, and Im also afraid of him getting sick while here. I hope and pray that both of us stay healthy the time that he is here. So..now Im a nervous wreck about it all.


Please keep your fingers crossed that me and my boyfriend have a healthy holiday!!! lol

[liriodendron]

(In case you were wondering why so many people get sick each year)

[hippychick]

Thats a really helpful thing to say there! [img]smileys/smilies_05.gif[/img]You'll be fine babe, enjoy your boyfriends visit. She may even just have a cold, I get bellyache when I get a cold all the time, plus judging from the way she was with you she sounds like the type to be dramatic. Maybe she just wanted to leave early this close to christmas? I know I've done that hehe. Either way even IF she is ill with a stomach virus you still probably wouldn't catch it and yes sick people should stay home. Don't drag your ass in and share the germs!


Happy Holidays!


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[liriodendron]

Thats a really helpful thing to say there! [img]smileys/smilies_05.gif[/img]

What ?!

The dumb co-worker doesn't know things can be contagious? That's why so
many people get sick because they are either stupid or just don't know
any better.



I thought that would be more comforting than telling the poster that
everything will be ok. Especially since I'm sure the poster knows how
to stay healthy.

Edited by: liriodendron

[ren2005]

Well, yes.. my friend is VERY dramatic.. to the point where its annoying! She said to me "Im going to lick your keyboard" when I told her I didnt want to get sick from her. What a good friend she is.. right? Thank God she went home. If she didnt..I was seriously going to!

[californiagirl]

(In case you were wondering why so many people get sick each year)

That is sooooo true!!!!! And regarding your avatar as well, listen to this: I just got back from the grocery store and I am PI**ED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was this lady there with 2 kids, one of them looked very unhappy and the other, about 2 years old had a real phlemmy cough and red, runny nose, touching all over the cart. THEN, she stood up and started playing with that pen thingy on the credit card machine thing!!! I was in line behind her and heard while she felt the need to tell the cashier how her kids had been sick with earaches and colds! HELLO---------she ALLOWED that snotty toddler to touch stuff!!!!! My daughter and I gave her dirty looks, because the kid was also out of the cart and touching some of the candy on display. Now another person will grab that candy, touch the cart, touch the pen, and maybe get sick because the mother couldn't control her kids!!!!! I was so mad on the drive home at how irresponsible and ignorant people can be!!!!!!!! Anyone feel the same way??

[kellybean]

Liriodendron, I agree with you 150%. People who go out in public sick are the ones who contaminate everything. I think sickness would be cut down at least half, if sick poeple would just stay home.

[crimgoddess]

If I'm at a job that doesn't provide paid sick leave (which is usually the case), I drag my ass in, looking as sick as can be to prove a point (that, and because I literally can't afford to not show up).


And I do in the back of my mind in a perverse way kind of hope that everyone in the office gets sick and it shuts down productivity altogether - that'll learn 'em good for not having paid sick leave for employees who are genuinely sick (funny- I'm pretty sure management does).


*amber*

[liriodendron]

Charlene, you would have LOVED this one mother that I just overheard in Staples.

I had to go to staples just now for some paper and there was this mom
in there with a couple of kids and she said "Remember what we said
about touching things. Don't touch anything!"

And I was thinking to myself.... yeah keep those grubs off my paper!

LOL



Kellybean, the thing is that these people that go out into public seem
to be unaware that they are spreading germs. What planet are they
living on?



Amber, you have a point there. I think paid sick leave or some
alternative is a must for any sized business and if the business says
they can't afford it, then cut out a few positions to be able to afford
it. They will make up for it in lost productivity. When I owned a
business that employed a few people I'd tell them to stay home until
they are well and the work will be here for them when they come back.
If they come in sick, they will be sent home. So in essense they didn't
miss anything by staying home but I admit it's rare to be in a business
where things can usually wait.

[nicki]

I am with amber, I don't get sick pay, if i'm ill i go in, i have no choice. I am also completeing a uni course, if i miss more than a certain number of days i dont get the qualification, hence once again i drag myself in.


Do i think about who i might give it to? No. That may make me selfish. By going in i probably give it to half the kids in my classes (im a teacher) but I probably caught it off one of them in the first place. I have been unwell for the last month with a severe cold and chest infection. I didnt feel unable to do my job with it so i carried on as normal. There is no way on earth I could have managed financially if i took a month off.


If everybody stayed home anytime they felt under the weather just so they didnt spread it the world would come to a standstill.

[suze]

Nicki, seems an odd uni? Aren't you allowed to self-certify? Get a GP's note? I lecture at a Uni and we would never not award a qualification just because a student had been off ill. If they pass the exams then they get the award...and if there is medical evidence we often raise the marks a bit to refelct what they might have achieved had they been fit! Check the Uni regulations...take it from me, bad advice flies round everywhere, from students and staff...few of either actually know the rules!! Might be worth checking that's all.


I tend to go to work when I'm ill, unless it's stomach related. If I don't the nice people who I like end up being asked to cover for me and I hate putting on the nice ones who are already overworked.

[crimgoddess]

For my university you do have the option of getting a certificate from health services to get out of an exam/class where you get an attendance mark- but it states clearly on university guidelines that vomitting in and of itself does not warrant being excused (unless it is accompagnied by a high fever, or extreme dehydration)- neither does strep, colds, or any other forms of illnesses that are contagious. Yeah- it sucks, but as a TA I also know that many MANY students do try the fake-out, especially in the xmas exams (to try and get home early, it's their first semester at school and they really aren't prepared, etc.).


I'm selfish too Nicki I marked allmy papers (64 of them)- with the flu. And my hands were all over them. I feel bad if anyone got sick- but at the end of the day it was crunch time, and if I didn't do them I wouldn't have fulfilled the hours of my contract. The prof I TAed for was really nice- but is also very busy, and if I didn't mark them, they would have been dumped on her, which is problematic because the students needed them back for a certain day. So, catch-22, and sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet.


As for missing classes themselves- for most of my classes I didn't have attendance requirements- it was the students responsibility to show up. BUT- if you missed a class, it was your responsibility to collect the notes/catch up on what you missed- no matter how sick you are. I don't necessarily trust that others would take the same quality of notes that I did, so I would usually drag myself in. I know for profs at our university too- if you are sick and cancel many classes, students tend to complain, and if you are a sessional and get a bad rep you may not get another contract.


*amber*

[californiagirl]

Charlene, you would have LOVED this one mother that I just overheard in Staples.
I had to go to staples just now for some paper and there was this mom in there with a couple of kids and she said "Remember what we said about touching things. Don't touch anything!"
And I was thinking to myself.... yeah keep those grubs off my paper!
LOL

Yeah!!!!! You tell 'em !!!!!!![img]smileys/smilies_01.gif[/img]