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Why are some people f*cking scumbags

54 replies

SpottyDoll · 15/09/2023 22:20

I was in work all week long and surrounded by people who came into work, sick. Various different levels of sick. Many colds and one person even had the scutters.

Friday night, in time for the weekend and I am now ill. My only exposure of illness was from work.

Is it a right of passage just to pass on their infection diseases to anyone.

This stuff has to be banned outright from work places unless if you work in healthcare. It should be made illigal for work places to allow sick people in.

I went into work to work and to earn a wage not to get sick.

OP posts:
BranchGold · 15/09/2023 22:25

I went into work to work and to earn a wage

theres your answer.

Throwncrumbs · 15/09/2023 22:26

So people who work in healthcare should go into work when they are sick? Really?

readbooksdrinktea · 15/09/2023 22:27

If I didn't show up to the office while working in England, I wasn't paid. Same for many colleagues. So, we went in with colds. There was rent to pay. I suspect that's even more relevant in this economy.

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transformandriseup · 15/09/2023 22:28

Does your workplace pay sick pay or just SSP?

MrsTerryPratchett · 15/09/2023 22:29

Where do you draw the line. One of my staff takes a week off with a sniffle. Because he's lazy.

Woush · 15/09/2023 22:32

People who go to work with a cold are scumbags? Urm.... O Kayyyy

Someone (full time Mon-Fri) in my work has most Thursdays off ill and a large proportion of Fridays. That's just lazy and taking the piss.

Backtowork11 · 15/09/2023 22:33

Nah, sorry. People can't confine themselves to their homes for days on end every time they're sick. A cough or cold can last weeks. People need to leave their homes to survive. They need to work to pay bills, shop to eat, etc. Spreading illness is inevitable, sadly.

Tiredmum100 · 15/09/2023 22:33

So, health care workers should be the only ones who go to work when ill? Health care workers who work with sick and vulnerable people? But it's not ok to go into an office if you're unwell with (mainly) healthy adults? 🤔

SweetBirdsong · 15/09/2023 22:34
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Pleaseme · 15/09/2023 22:34

Throwncrumbs · 15/09/2023 22:26

So people who work in healthcare should go into work when they are sick? Really?

I think they mean the sick patients are the exception.

vodkaredbullgirl · 15/09/2023 22:36

🤔wouldn't get paid if I didn't go into work, can't afford to be sick.

Yellowshirt · 15/09/2023 22:38

Just take a couple of paracetamol and drink fluids. Stop moaning and being miserable.
People have bills to pay.

Occasionalsnaccident · 15/09/2023 22:46

What are the scutters?

MaidOfSteel · 15/09/2023 22:47

Blimey. If I'd taken a couple of days off every time I felt a bit crummy, or had a runny nose/cough etc, I'd be booted out on capability grounds very quickly! Every period of sickness was cumulative and counted against the staff in every job I've ever had.

illiterato · 15/09/2023 22:47

Occasionalsnaccident · 15/09/2023 22:46

What are the scutters?

The shits I think

RockAndRollerskate · 15/09/2023 22:55

I’d be on warnings by now if I took time off every time I was unwell. I have two small kids and catch whatever they catch.

I appreciate your frustration, but you can’t expect people not to work

HRTQueen · 15/09/2023 22:56

Because people need to earn money and even if they receive sick pay they are concerned about being pushed out of work

you can take time off with a cold if you wish to maybe the above doesn’t concern you

HowardKirksConscience · 15/09/2023 23:01

A rite of passage isn’t what you think it is

(not spelt ‘right’ either)

PyongyangKipperbang · 15/09/2023 23:01

I speak only for me, but I am on about the lowest contract hours you can get without being zero hours. Company makes a big deal about not giving zero hours contracts but.......

If I call in sick then I will not get any "overtime" for the next two to three weeks. If I get ill, I will go to work and hope like hell that they send me home because then its on them.

Hawkins0009 · 15/09/2023 23:01

@SpottyDoll
do you take multi vitamins to help prevent colds etc ?
plus the bugs could take days to incubate in your system

Hawkins0009 · 15/09/2023 23:02

the issue is how companies handle staff sick levels etc, bills still need paying

Rubiconmango · 15/09/2023 23:02

Charming.

It's called the real world. You know the one in which we have to pay rent and bills? That world.

I'm all for the rant, but I think you lost support at calling us scumbags!

And food for thought... 'I'm really ill, but can stay home for days or even weeks on end, get a full salary, everytime I'm ill, and no consequences, but I'll just pop into work because I love my job'... said no person ever! WE ALL WANT TO CALL IN SICK.

OnAFrolicOfMyOwn · 15/09/2023 23:03

Blame the culture of presenteeism, not the victims of it.

Ineedanewmoniker · 15/09/2023 23:08

Sat on the tube today and a woman opposite me was coughing constantly. Covid is back again, flu season is upon us. Selfish.

Chickpea17 · 15/09/2023 23:11

Good grief get a grip.