to think that someone who's been off work for the last two days with sickness shouldn't be in work today..

[harassedinherpants]

Especially when they're still looking decidedly ropey?? She hasn't eaten a thing and not even a cuppa as normal, just very weak mint tea.

Although her family haven't come down with it (yet!) she has the same symptoms as one of her friends who she was with at the weekend. She must have been rough as she hardly ever takes time off and soldiers on normally.

I really don't want it! Can't afford the time off work, dd doesn't need another bug and dh is self employed.

AIBU in think that the 48 hour rule should apply in work as it does in school?

I'm cringing every time she hands me something and sneakily using antibac gel.

I was joking about you being the carrier.

I'm not being rude but honestly? If I didn't get paid sick leave until I'd been off for 6 days (and I presume at that point it's SSP?) and I'd been off for 2 days WITHOUT PAY and I felt just about well enough to come in on the third day, you would be seeing me all up in your face. I couldn't afford to only earn for 2 working days for that week.

If I were you, I would be thinking that the company is at fault for having such shitty rules, not the poor dab whose had to come to work feeling like shoite.

I know you were .

And I do understand what you're saying, and normally yes I'd agree, but she looks soooo ill. There's no way she's over it. If it was a cold fair enough.....

Yes the company is at fault, but it's been like this for years, and we're actually pretty well paid in comparison to other companies around here, so it's swings and roundabouts. Can't be that bad here, we've both been here for flaming years. No it is, we just like the wages and flexibility .

I don't understand this. She would ahve had to come back at some point - at which point she would be back after X days off sick with sickness??

Meant to add it's not SSP after 5 working days, it's full pay for 8 weeks, the 50% until you've been off for 6 months. I think that bit's actually pretty generous?

If you're that worried about catching something, bearing in mind you'll probably have to stop breathing/touching anything ever again to do it properly, either don't go into work yourself or pay her wages so she can stay at home.

Usually only children have the luxury of going to bed/the world stopping if they're ill.

Right, so you can't afford to be off sick but you think she can?

It is pretty generous, and it's like it is to pervent people throwing short term non-descript 'sickies'.

Dr's don't sign notes before Day 8 of an illness - it's a 'self-cert' before then, so no company will risk paying sick pay on the first few days for fear of the piss being taken.

Sad, but true.

Well, I see your point, but you come into contact with all kinds of germs every day in public places - one of the hazards of leaving your own home.

She's obviously dedicated to her job, so I wouldn't hold it against her.

Are you sure she's not pregnant?

my employer recently changed our contracts we can get paid sick days once (wether its one day or one week doesnt matter if it is the same illness) we are, from that period of sickness, not paid sick again for 2 years.
i was off sick paid with swine flu 2 years ago last july so any time off ive had to take since has been unpaid until july of this year.
also most helpfully they also now have a deciplinary proceedure in place that states if a member of staff has more that 4 short unrelated periods of sickness in those two years, we get a written warning, and any sicknesses following that warning may result in dismissal.
i get paid £700 a month my husband gets no sickpay at all gets paid £850 a month our rent is £600 our bills about £500 then there is food and other stuff that comes with having a family of 4.
so when each sick day costs around £50 and possibly dismissal i absolutely bring my sicknesses to work, i work with the public and my daughter is at preschool, we get sick a fair bit, but what can i do? i make no apologies for my employer being heartless greedy bastards.

chipmonkey absolutely! She's had a hysterectomy 9ish years ago .

bubbub that's horrendous!!

We don't have any kind of disciplinary procedures here. Sometimes that's good, most of the time it's not. It's pretty backward (possibly illegal?) on that kind of thing.

we were all pretty shocked by it tbh, one woman who has been in the company for 15 years, very highly respected is in the middle of a disaplinary because of her sickness record! she has had a lot go on in recent years and suffers from pcos really badly but she is still having a written warning! its a massive company i work for in the health retail sector, one of the best 25 companies to work for in 2011!!! if we gots paid sick i could see the point of the disciplanary proceedures but is not like anyone is going to be taking the piss!