To call in sick to work when you’re sick

I think your colleague sounds like an utter loser

She’d soon be moaning if you went to work ill and gave whatever you had to her … along with everyone else.
Why be a “super spreader” … ridiculous.

I loathe people who come in to work coughing and spluttering and spreading their germs all over the place.

If you're ill stay at home. If you're well enough to work but you're still a bit coughy nd sniffly, work from home if that's possible.

Just keep your bloody bacteria and viruses away from me.

You deserve (and are entitled to) sick days. Dont worry about others x

Whose colleagues are off sick for an average of 20 days per year? Where have you pulled that from?

This, and report her for this. If she's allowed to get away with her behaviour, one days she'll try it on someone who is very vulnerable, with serious consequences. Make sure you pursue it as far as you can, so it stops other people behaving this way.
Horrible ableist, if you can walk you can work! She needs sensitivity training too-many people who can't walk do work!

People do love being a martyr don’t they? I think they think companies will like them more if they trudge in everyday they’re poorly (and spread it about). I fully appreciate having to cover people being off especially if you’re starting to come down with it, but that’s where you also then go home. I’ve been there and stayed and does you no favours.

happily I think I’m starting perimenopause as I don’t give a sh8t now and just tell people they’re being an arse and feel no remorse about it. Years ago I would have possibly got upset or played on my mind. Not now, I’m up for a battle. Just tell her with a wink maybe next year she’ll get a gold medal and then have a good giggle. Or if you would prefer to be serious just say well that’s your decision, now can you change the subject I’m bored.

You don't think it would be strenge for your colleagues to be off sick an average of 20 days per year.

We had one never a day off he fell asleep at lunchtime because he was fucked.
Never had a day off blah blah
He was a gossip of the highest order
I reckoned he never took a day off incase he missed something.

I think a lot of it depends on what job you do.

I do 2 different roles for the same employer. One is a hybrid role so if I don’t feel well I can work from home no problem. I won’t infect anyone else and if I need a lie down I could take one and have my laptop with me. Not the end of the world.

In my other role road safety could very well be severely compromised if I wasn’t well enough. So I potentially would have to take a day off from the role but not from my other one.

In almost 11yrs I have only been off 3 times. Two of those was when my slipped disc meant I couldn’t stand, let alone walk and it was taking 90 minutes to crawl to the toilet (en suite!) and back. There was no way I could get in and out of vehicles all day. I was only doing the second role at the time so couldn’t work from home.

I am lucky that I don’t tend to be poorly very often.

On the other side of the coin we all know the people who take a week off every time they sneeze or miraculously are poorly the day after their birthday, or a night out etc. The ones you can plan your diary around them suddenly needing another 6 months off on full pay……

I used to work with a woman who always came into work when she was sick to ‘soldier on’, take ages to dhake the illness and then infect everyone elsewho then did take sick days and recover much quicker. It is so selfish to go into work when you are unwell, sick days exist for a reason.

that colleague got bollocked when she soldiered into work with the flu (!) and our pregnant manager would not go near her and told her to go home.

your colleague just wants to be the martyr, take it she has no issue when you cover her days when she is on holiday?

What’s odd about it? What point are you trying to make?

I agree.

I’d say she obviously wasn’t as sick as you then.

I don’t want people coming into the office when they’re ill.

Sometimes people can’t help it but that’s how you get half the team off sick or feeling miserable and it has a massive knock on effect.

I really liked Covid - if you were sick, stay home and isolate.
No one made you feel guilty as it was policy.

She might feel unwell but she is well enough to be able to get in to work, which you weren't.

Presenteeism pisses me off. I pay people for 100% effort not 60% and whinging. If you're sick, stay home and rest. You will get better faster and won't make the rest of the team sick.

Can't stand these work martyr types. They need to realise 'The Man' doesn't give a shit about them, and would drop them like hot coals if the need arose. If you're sick your priority is to you. Not work.

If I am sick I stay home until I m better.
if any of my team come in sick, I send them home.

Tell her she probably made you ill, coming in with her germs; and if she wouldn’t do that again that would be great.
guarantee she will shush

OP turn it around. Say "well if I'm ill I prefer ro be thoughtful enough not to come into work and pass it onto my colleagues"

“If you have serious complaints about having to do my work while I was ill, I suggest you take them to our manager. I will come with you if you like. Hang on. I’ll just grab my doctor’s certificates”

Please ignore the “I’ve never taken a sick day” biohazard freaks. Every work place has them and they would definitely come into work if they had been bitten by a zombie, causing the fall of the workplace.

When I was 16 I worked with this bloody woman who came into work with a broken leg… that wasn’t fair on the team but she wanted the bragging rights of never being off sick. She just got in the way and hobbled about, and the worst part is it wasn’t a money thing.. her husband was loaded and she had a good pension. I think she just came into to terrorise us and feed off our youth. She was a total vampire.

If you are ill you are ill. Why would you go into work and spread it around just to look like a hero?

As far as I am concerned I am not paid anywhere near enough to go into work when I am sick.

Isn't there a doctor's saying: "If you think you have the flu, then you have a cold. If you think you're dying, you have the flu."

Yes, it's also true that some people call in sick when they don't need to.