People coming into work when they're ill

Lorelli!

Goya wrote: »

This is the description though.

It's just one of my pet peeves because where I work, people are nightmares for coming in clearly too sick to be anywhere but bed, and then everyone else in the team gets sick, including sinus infections which are so difficult to shake for weeks.

It may be with the intention of not losing productivity but ultimately it's actually counter productive.

She may have been whiny about it which op describes as a "dying swan" but a lot of people moan when they are sick even with just a cold, usually just venting. It's annoying but maybe she was trying to figure out how bad she was and was confiding in her co workers. She was sneezing, coughing, pale and looked miserable, all symptoms of the common cold. She felt able to work so she did and then when she felt she couldn't, she went to the doctor. I don't see what she did wrong tbh?

Kashton Hundreds Laborer wrote: »

She is now out and on antibiotics, but a couple of other people who work in the same room as her are starting to feel shivery and one girl is getting a scratchy throat and generally people are annoyed that this woman didn't just stay at home out of people's way.

I wonder if the other co workers who have a "scratchy throat" and feel "shivery" and are now annoyed at the other woman for spreading it have left work immediately after seemingly diagnosing themself with same infection?

I just don't think these things are cut and dry so I wouldn't personally be judging someone who came into work sick and I've caught a really bad vomiting bug before from a coworker.

Robineen

Bambi985 wrote: »

I get sick -truly sick enough to be unable to work or do anything other than lie in bed convinced I'm dying - probably once or twice a decade. The flu last year where I couldn't eat or breathe properly and dropped a stone off my already slim frame. Took two days for that. Before that, probably tonsillitis around 2009. I'm not some super human either, I just don't succumb to a few sniffles and take the piss every other month.

Good for you. Others get genuinely sick more frequently than that.

Goya

Lorelli! wrote: »

She may have been whiny about it which op describes as a "dying swan" but a lot of people moan when they are sick even with just a cold, usually just venting. It's annoying but maybe she was trying to figure out how bad she was and was confiding in her co workers. She was sneezing, coughing, pale and looked miserable, all symptoms of the common cold. She felt able to work so she did and then when she felt she couldn't, she went to the doctor. I don't see what she did wrong tbh?



I wonder if the other co workers who have a "scratchy throat" and feel "shivery" and are now annoyed at the other woman for spreading it have left work immediately after seemingly diagnosing themself with same infection?

Maybe not immediately, because people are usually fine at the very start of an illness.

The woman described by the OP seemed ill enough to warrant staying in bed, in my opinion, but I guess we can agree to disagree.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Lorelli! wrote: »

But the OP said the girl came in for the "past couple of days" and then went to the doctor and stayed home sick.

It might take someone a few days to realise they have more than just a cold. She may have felt ok to work and then her symptoms got worse and she was figuring out whether or not it warranted a visit to the doctor and antibiotics.

No, she made it very clear that she was feeling very unwell. She was pale and miserable and obviously had more than a cold.

ChikiChiki

Bambi985 wrote: »

I don't get "sickie" people. The type that gets the flu and a chest infection and tonsillitis and a stomach bug every year without fail. And takes at least one sick day every month or two to deal with it all. And there's one of these in every office, and they grind everyone's gears for the strain they put on the whole team who have to pick up slack for them every other week.

I get sick -truly sick enough to be unable to work or do anything other than lie in bed convinced I'm dying - probably once or twice a decade. The flu last year where I couldn't eat or breathe properly and dropped a stone off my already slim frame. Took two days for that. Before that, probably tonsillitis around 2009. I'm not some super human either, I just don't succumb to a few sniffles and take the piss every other month.

I'd be more on your colleague's side tbh. The pisstaking "sickies" ruin it for the rest of us, who are ambitious and value how we're seen by our bosses and don't want to fracture trust just because there's another sick-day addict in the office who makes everyone automatically disbelieve they are actually ill.

Meh I'd actually recommend people taking the odd sick day off here or there just not take the piss completly. Everyone needs that odd duvet day now and again for some reason or another. Don't get so worked up about your job. You're only an asset to the company meaning your disposable. Even if you have ambitions you can still run the odd sickie believe it or not!


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learn_more

I'd go into work when I'm sick and throw a sickie when I wan't to go to a concert or something. Prevents anyone being too suspicious that way.

IvyTheTerrible

learn_more wrote: »

I'd go into work when I'm sick and throw a sickie when I wan't to go to a concert or something. Prevents anyone being too suspicious that way.

So you take the piss of the system, making it harder for genuinely sick people to take sick days, AND you go in to infect your colleagues? You sound lovely.