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Infectious people
I work at home now, but when I worked with outside the home with allot of people, I just hated it when someone came to work sick, knowing that they would infect so many of us co workers.
How do you feel about a co-worker showing up for work in spite of the fact they are very ill with a flu?
Is it a strong work ethic? Are you sympathetic at all and think that most must really need that full week of pay come payday or do you think it's just rude to come to work with something that could (and usually does) cause a workwide epidemic?
(I've read some research studies and such, that claim the infectious stage is a week or so before any symptoms appear and that it's during this incubation phase that a person is actually infectious, not while they are sick....but I really have a hard time believing that!)
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| December 11, 2007, 08:46 |
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Re: Infectious people
QUOTE (Chazzy @ December 11, 2007, 08:46)I work at home now, but when I worked with outside the home with allot of people, I just hated it when someone came to work sick, knowing that they would infect so many of us co workers.
How do you feel about a co-worker showing up for work in spite of the fact they are very ill with a flu?
Is it a strong work ethic? Are you sympathetic at all and think that most must really need that full week of pay come payday or do you think it's just rude to come to work with something that could (and usually does) cause a workwide epidemic?
(I've read some research studies and such, that claim the infectious stage is a week or so before any symptoms appear and that it's during this incubation phase that a person is actually infectious, not while they are sick....but I really have a hard time believing that!)
Well there are 2 sides to the coin:
1. If the person comes in being ill, just means he considers his work more than his body, which in some respects is admireable, but stupid at the same time. It's just the way some work places are I think. Work is hours and hours means a wage. Though you have an alotted time for "sick leave", it can be good, but sometimes those periods aren't paid for, and if ur family depend on you or even if they don't and you want every penny to count, those few days of sick leave will be worse for you. If your company does not allow sick leave, that means you have to take it out of your alotted holiday...which is limited as it is, something like 20days a year? and with that you have to give some weeks notice, if u want to be in the good books in the company.
So though people come in ill, it might not be because they are selfish, but because they have to and feel that it's best for both company and themselves in the long run.
In work situations where I have been, so long as there is a good cirulation of air about, ie opened windows for a short time in a day, then should be ok. In offices where there is Air con, no windows open, heat emitting from radiators, it would be natural to assume that if one is ill the rst will soon follow in a nasty cycle.
However the flip side of the coin:
2. The "sick leave" rule can be overdone, so easily. A person can have a slight sniffle, it's not life threatening, yet they get a "doctors note" and say they need so many days off work to make sure it's not contaminated.
Those people I do dispise, because it gives others who really ought to have a sick leave more difficult to get one, cause you need "x" number of people to be in work to do the necessary job.
So personally, if you do need to take a sick leave, then take a whole day out. Get the neccessary prescription and rest the day out with energy drinks, but as soon as u can look infront of you, without needing a support to get up, then in my eyes you're fit to work.
Alot of times you need strong will to get through an illness, instead of taking an excuse to get ill.
I mean let's face it, no-one really wants to work, and if u do, you want to work for as little time as possible and get a great reward for it. Some can slyly do that, but others need to work that out.
So...though I think it's a unfortunate thing that a person should or has to work when ill, butin unforuntely in this day and age, if u don't have work, no matter how ill you are, monety rules, and without money, you haven't got much else.
So though someone looks ill, maybe should wait to take a sick leave when really really run down, if it's just a cold or cough, there a different degrees to them all, but unless they are so bad that they need to see a doctor, then I think you shouldn't worry too much. I think it's more a sterotype of an ill person that can make someone not work as much, instead of the fact that a good collegue of yours is there with a cold.
Not sure if from all that blurb it answered your query, but personally I try to use will power to help fight the infection, before needing a day off work, if neccessary. 
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| December 11, 2007, 09:34 |
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Liberalwife
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Re: Infectious people
It didn't matter how ill any of us were, my ex-boss had a horrible way of making you feel like you were just faking it, and also terribly guilty for letting the team down.
(One of the many reasons why I told him to stick his job where the sun don't shine, lol!)
I think it makes perfect sense to stay clear of work when your ill. Its not very pleasant sat around people sniffling and sneezing, and spreading around germs that are very likely to be passed to you.
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| December 11, 2007, 10:42 |
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pookhabear
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port st lucie, Florida, US
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Re: Infectious people
People who worked with me , I would tell to go home. Me on the other hand was the stupid one, no matter how sick i was I would be in work. I missed 2 days in 15 yrs and thats because my dist. mgr made me go home. I fully admit I was stupid but i would do it all over again 
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| December 11, 2007, 13:01 |
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Re: Infectious people
I wish they'd stay home, becuase I hate listening to them sniff, cough and blow their noses.
But... earlier this year as the annual back-to-school cold was doing its rounds my whole team was down with it at some point, but only one guy took a day off, and we layed into him 
That's just the cold though, if they're coming in with leprosy or something that's different
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| December 11, 2007, 14:12 |
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funlovingpair
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Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Re: Infectious people
This is a double edged sword. If you come into work sick, everyone else will get sick. If you call in to work sick, then you chastised by upper management by using sick time, which means you will not get a good review which also results in not as good of a pay increase. So what does one do.  Kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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| December 13, 2007, 09:23 |
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Re: Infectious people
It is a tough one, flp....I've seen many a boss that will pressure and threaten their workers to show up and clock in...no matter what!
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| December 14, 2007, 23:47 |
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Re: Infectious people
Always problem at my work.I work as foreman on rr track gangs and this time year always sick people coming to work myself included.
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| December 15, 2007, 00:10 |
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funlovingpair
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Re: Infectious people
Not everyone gets sick time. Some people are temps and are not given sick time.
Ma
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| December 15, 2007, 09:30 |
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