… to be mad at ill colleague?

I would agree that a lot of people would typically be expected to work with a cold, but there are bog-standard colds and there are awful colds, and the OP's follow up posts suggest the employee has more than a bit of a sniffle. A cold can be three days of a snotty nose or it can be a week of fever, sinus pain, a painfully scabby throat, headache and a hacking cough.

The OP does say in her follow up posts that she understands people need to come in with a cold sometimes but it's more the lack of hygiene that's the problem. Yes, people might need to come in with a bit of a cold - but there's no excuse for leaving snotty tissues lying around and touching everything with hands you've just sneezed into, etc.

You're only being unreasonable not to raise it with your manager.

OP, when your own child starts nursery and brings home bug after bug, are you going to phone in sick every single time they pass it onto you?

How would your school manage if all teachers rang in with a cold?

You work in a school, surely lots of the kids have colds too.
Rank leaving snotty tissues everywhere though.

I don't blame you. My manager has three young kids and is constantly dragging their germs into the office. We are fed up
and most have resumed masking.

to be honest, most people can’t afford to not go into work when they have a cold. Where I work we don’t get paid sick at all so if you are off unwell your pay is docked unless you use holidays. I imagine it’s the same with a lot of places.

Rubbish, the OP does not know who she caught a cold from in a school with literally hundreds of people.

Having said that, the OP needs to report the snotty tissues etc being left around.

Get signed off for a few days next week, so you can fully recover.

All these MNetters who expect their colleagues not to come in with a cold when they can't work from home are quite strange.

Do they honestly think them not catching a cold is more important than their colleagues eventually losing their jobs, and possibly their homes?

Most employers are simply NOT ok with staff phoning in sick because they've got a cold.

Christ, if we all did that everything would grind to a halt and we'd all be out of work.

Yes, but if her colleague wasn't a complete twat she'd be pregnant and wouldn't have a cold, which I think we can all agree is preferable.

It's fucking annoying when someone else's unnecessary actions have a negative impact on other people, regardless of pregnancy.

You work in a school, there's infectious people everywhere with all sorts of things. Working in a school you'll know the impact of being off, funding and setting cover.

I don't blame you at all for being annoyed, but the real problem is management not enforcing guidelines, and then you get these martyr types trying to lord it over everyone else and acting as if the place of work falls apart without them!🙄
They are usually nowhere near as ill in themselves as they claim, but then spread everything to everyone else and some of us with weaker or compromised immune systems end up really ill!😡

I blamed my boss for giving me his cold.
We both WFH 12 miles apart 😃
In fact it was my teenager. He was wiped out for a couple of days. I'm on week 2 of the snots. Little sod.

That's gross and I would certainly tell them to put it in the bin.

Yuk! I hope you actually pulled them up on this?

If not, speak to your line manager and get them to send a reminder out.

No one should be going into work when badly ill. But a common cold doesn't usually render people unable to work.
That said, if you do go to work with a cold (like most of us do) then it's good practice to be extra vigilant with your hygiene. Leaving food and drink lying about is shabby, why are they doing that?

You are probably feeling it worse because you are pregnant (congratulations).

X posted, sorry.

Yes they should be more hygienic although I'm sure you also kept away from them and sanitized your hands and workspace, which didn't stop you catching it.

But I don't think you should be berating staff for going to work ill, when the SLT leaves them little choice.

You say it's wrecking your half-term.

Does this mean you're a teacher/TA?

Because if so, you literally could've caught it from anyone in that school and also, most SLTs don't take too kindly to their staff ringing in with a cold.

I can’t stand it when ill colleagues drag themselves into work and make everyone else sick, but more often than not it’s the result of a presenteeism office culture which demands staff come in unless they’re literally at death’s door and punishes them for being unwell with docked pay and/or disciplinary action. If yours isn’t one of those companies than YANBU.

YANBU and next time they do it you can ask them to keep their distance.

Coming in to work when sick is so, so selfish. The vast majority of us do not need to force ourselves into work at any cost when sick, the company will not implode. It's martyr-ish and self-absorbed. I especially can't stand when people seem to take a sort of pride in coming in sick, making comments like "if my legs work, I'm coming in to work". Like... good for you but what about everyone else who is now going to come into contact with your germs?! Illness affects people differently, too. What is mild and harmless for one person can be serious for another. So selfish.