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AIBU to cancel interview due to COVID?

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Sexisthairdressers · 24/04/2025 07:21

I have a job interview this morning but have COVID. Didn't sleep. Work up feeling crap and did a test. Just emailed to cancel. Feel terrible that it's last minute and really want the job. Have asked to reschedule. Did I do the right thing? AIBU? For info, it was a 4 hour interview (tests etc then face to face interview - just don't think I could have got through it - quite apart from not wanting to infect everyone).

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ilovesooty · 24/04/2025 11:22

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 09:32

haha rude, so anyone who challenges people and encourages them to think is rude?

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That's what I meant to quote. You are rude.

Calliopespa · 24/04/2025 11:19

ilovesooty · 24/04/2025 11:16

The rude people on this thread are you and the poster who delightfully referred to "covid bedwetters".

Apologies @Theunamedcat .i meant to agree with you that @Lanzarotelady is indeed rude and have quoted the wrong post.

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The batshit comment was unnecessarily aggressive too.

PhatGurlSlim · 24/04/2025 11:17

MrsSkylerWhite · 24/04/2025 10:59

People who have consideration for others less robust than themselves.

Most high street pharmacies carry them.

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I agree. I still test for COVID when I feel very ill. I think it's important.

Some people are so selfish.

ilovesooty · 24/04/2025 11:16

Theunamedcat · 24/04/2025 09:42

No one owes you access to medical records someone died and your "making them think" how fucking rude are you? were you dragged up or raised correctly are you going to start using the word "sheeple" next because someone somewhere has the audacity to believe a doctor

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The rude people on this thread are you and the poster who delightfully referred to "covid bedwetters".

Apologies @Theunamedcat .i meant to agree with you that @Lanzarotelady is indeed rude and have quoted the wrong post.

PhatGurlSlim · 24/04/2025 11:16

bigvig · 24/04/2025 07:24

You won't get the job. I'd think you were flaky OP.

She's got covid!!!

feelingbleh · 24/04/2025 11:07

Widowerwouldyou · 24/04/2025 11:02

It’s probably a good time to stop selling them to the public in pharmacies and only test in medical facilities if it really is clinically necessary, so that people who feel like a day off work don’t have that as an excuse.

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Covid gives me really bad breathlessness and really effects my asthma if I hadn't of tested for covid I would of assumed something bad is going on and gone to the drs and sat in a waiting room with lots of vulnerable people. Testing meant I didn't have to do this. It would be like saying you can no longer do pregnancy tests at home or test your blood sugars. Drs don't have time for this stuff when people can check themselves

Over40Overdating · 24/04/2025 11:05

That you think mine and any others direct experience with the long term impact of Covid is brainwashed hysteria @Mumoftwo52 doesn’t prove you to be the freedom fighting voice of sanity you clearly think you are.

Quite the opposite.

NestOfWipers · 24/04/2025 11:04

Calliopespa · 24/04/2025 10:41

I hope it’s not a biology essay.

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I agree with both of you!!

NestOfWipers · 24/04/2025 11:04

Azureshores · 24/04/2025 10:57

Who the HELL is still testing for covid? Where do you even get the tests?? 😂

If you had bothered to read the thread, you'd know the answer to both of those stupid questions.

Widowerwouldyou · 24/04/2025 11:02

It’s probably a good time to stop selling them to the public in pharmacies and only test in medical facilities if it really is clinically necessary, so that people who feel like a day off work don’t have that as an excuse.

NestOfWipers · 24/04/2025 11:02

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 10:18

What does taking your temperature tell you, does it make you feel better or worse, if it was normal, would that make you feel better?

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oh do stop pretending to be a nurse.

Given your comments, it's just not credible.

MrsSkylerWhite · 24/04/2025 11:00

Coastingtohell25 · 24/04/2025 10:50

My daughter ( 11 ) march 9th just gone.

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How is she doing?

Calliopespa · 24/04/2025 11:00

lunaswand · 24/04/2025 10:58

I do if i'm feeling particularly bad, out of interest as much as anything else & because I have a few boxes of old tests left in the cupboard

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I think you’d actually have to have a profound lack of basic curiosity not to test in those circumstances.

MrsSkylerWhite · 24/04/2025 10:59

Azureshores · 24/04/2025 10:57

Who the HELL is still testing for covid? Where do you even get the tests?? 😂

People who have consideration for others less robust than themselves.

Most high street pharmacies carry them.

lunaswand · 24/04/2025 10:58

HelenWheels · 24/04/2025 07:28

i often wonder in what circumstances people test

I do if i'm feeling particularly bad, out of interest as much as anything else & because I have a few boxes of old tests left in the cupboard

Magnastorm · 24/04/2025 10:57

You absolutely did the right thing. I would be far more annoyed with someone coming for a meeting or interview who was visibly ill than with someone who has the good manners to let me know.

Interviews can be rescheduled and any decent organisation will have no issue in doing so.

Azureshores · 24/04/2025 10:57

Who the HELL is still testing for covid? Where do you even get the tests?? 😂

LoveMeLoveMyDawg · 24/04/2025 10:54

RampantIvy · 24/04/2025 07:41

I'm sorry, but you are wrong. Two people I know have just had covid and both were very seriously unwell with it.

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Yes, my DP came down with “something” first week in February… he’s still suffering with “something” now! It’s been 12 weeks!

Not like him at all, he’s now constantly tired, snuffly, headachey, and got no energy at all. Doctors aren’t interested, so he just carries on🤷‍♀️
There is still some sort of virus around.

MrsSkylerWhite · 24/04/2025 10:52

My husband was in hospital twice earlier this year, 6 weeks in total. Covid was running rife among staff and patients alike (hospital was testing patients who required admission).

Coastingtohell25 · 24/04/2025 10:50

ARichtGoodDram · 24/04/2025 10:50

When was the last time someone was hospitalised for covid?

February for my Dd.

My daughter ( 11 ) march 9th just gone.

Coastingtohell25 · 24/04/2025 10:50

Lanzarotelady · 24/04/2025 08:04

But what happens if flu comes in?
What if you give your mother flu?
Does your mum not go out at all?
Flu can and does still kill!

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Ridiculous comment if you have the flu you also stay away from people 🤣🤣🤣

We can’t stop every risk but knowingly spreading is different

ARichtGoodDram · 24/04/2025 10:50

When was the last time someone was hospitalised for covid?

February for my Dd.

DefinitelyMaybe92 · 24/04/2025 10:49

Dotjones · 24/04/2025 10:40

79 people died in the week to 4th April here.

People still get hospitalised with Covid. People still die with Covid. It hasn't gone away, it's just it's not newsworthy now.

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Agreed. Not to mention that Covid and Flu can progress to pneumonia or other complications, depending on the individual, so the deaths would be recorded as the end state/complication, but could easily be as a result of having Covid in the first place. I just don’t know why anyone would want to go out into the world with ANY type of contagious illness and risk making others unwell too.

Hoppinggreen · 24/04/2025 10:42

You probably did the right thing but as an interviewer if I had strong candidates who did interview on the day I probably wouldn't take the time to interview you later.
Its often a time things, days allocated for interviews and tricky to do them at another time, especially if it takes a whole day to do it.

NestOfWipers · 24/04/2025 10:42

Over40Overdating · 24/04/2025 09:17

And I thought the self-centred ableists too thick & selfish to grasp how deadly Covid can still be for some people would be long gone or at least educated by decency if not by intelligence. Evidently not.

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No, evidently not, unfortunately

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