If you had a very important meeting in work ...

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Infact if you had two very important meeting this week, one that included flying to Ireland to meet a client but you were sick, would you feel bad about phoning in sick?

How do other people deal with being ill when you are senior in your job and flights and hotels have been booked in advance for weeks?

I prop myself up with meditation and I carry on. Obviously if I couldn't do that I wouldn't but I usually give 100% to the job.

Guess again. I have words with people who bring visible illness in to the office. If they don't leave of their own accord I have previously approached management and asked for them to be sent home. (Unfortunately by that time, they had already managed to infect half the staff team, who were off for over a week)

Keeping contagious illness out of the workplace is actually part of our health and safety policy. We're equipped to work remotely so people need to do it.

If I were that ill and didn’t have a deputy, I wouldn’t travel but would do the meeting on Teams.

This is why in the teams that I run, we always make sure at least 2 people are across every area in case we need to swap around. And I make sure I hire people who are better than me.

You go in unless you are strapped to a hospital bed, of infectious in the extreme!

Depends on how sick.
An organisation which doesn't have back ups and cover is very vulnerable. ( No one should be irreplaceable- what if someone is knocked over by a bus?)

I'm very rarely sick. I have had 1 shift off for a miscarriage in 8 years which is fairly unusual in my role and the level of exposure to infectious disease.

However if you husband has the actual flu which is rife right now and flooring people for 2 weeks i qould expect him to stay in his bed and not put others at risk. I put a patient in their 30s with no comorbidities up to ICU to be intubated on Christmas week because of the flu. I think it's really selfish to dope yourself up with paracetamol and carry on.

I refused a supplier few years ago and went with another because the rep who came was sniffly, congested and coughing.
It was food business ffs.

Absolutely hate people trotting everywhere for presenteerism sake sick and spreading the sickness.

Of course you should always do your best to fulfil obligations but I would find it deeply unprofessional if anyone showed up at a meeting clearly unwell and contagious. It would really piss me off that we had all been subjected to the bug when if we’re honest, it’s not exactly a life and death situation.

He has the flu. It’s contagious, and it really knocks people over, going back to early will jeopardise his recovery - post viral extended weakness was not only discovered with long covid. He should not catch a plane or go to a meeting!! He should have told them as soon as he knew it was the flu.

ive been a consultant and I’ve been in a client meeting where our sniffy snotty coughy miserable team lead was sent home by them, they wouldn’t even sit next to him and I thought thank Christ for that. Not the flu, and pre Covid too. Imagine if he gave them all the flu and hospitalised their child or grandma, there goes the client relationship.

If he's genuinely got flu and not just a cold then he won't physically be able to get out of bed and go.
I've had it over Xmas and could just about drag myself between bed and the bathroom (I had the shits with it) otherwise lying there in and out of consciousness with a 39 degree fever. I'm usually pretty good at cracking on but I wouldn't have been physically capable of packing let alone getting on a plane.

You do know I’m not the OP’s partner right?

I mean we can continue this weird hypothetical make believe if you like, but I’m not sure it serves a modicum of purpose.

In my previous international role as a senior manager in the real world, if someone rocked up clearly germ ridden to a meeting yes I would be LIVID.

And whatever you are selling, I ain’t buying it.

Ok?

Of course I know

its funny how women who haven’t been in the workplace for a while always have such firm ideas about all the things that happen in them.

Also incorrect, but crack on.

So???? Did he go?! Desperate to know 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Surely that depends on the meeting?

no one wants a sales pitch from someone obviously sick but there are numerous reasons why an in person meeting might be business critical and the consequences of a no show could be catastrophic.