AIBU if you have a cold, stay at home...

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... and don't bring tour germs into work. Everyone at my DHs office has caught a cold and are sneezing and coughing. My three month old DS has caught it. :(

apologies for the typos

@LadyBunnysWig I hope the bride isn't full of cold on her honeymoon!

To be honest, look at what you just said. Nearly everyone in your office has one, so do they all stay off and the office is closed? I absolutely loathe it when people are coughing and spluttering on the bus near me, but I realise it's not practical to stay off just for a cold.

Everyone's always sick st my work, well to be more accurate all the smokers are sick all the time. I use antibacterial wipes after touching things like door knobs.

If they all stayed home nothing would ever get done.

Leigha3
It is smokers isn’t it. My boss is always spluttering over everything dropping dirty tissues on the floor. She’s been ill since October gross. She thinks we’re judging cause she smokes and has a little one. But that doesn’t concern us (her child after all), it’s the fact she brings those germs in and her immunity is less due to smoking. It’s not a pretty sight.

I do take 1-2 days off if I have a bad cold (lucky workplace is quite reasonable) but colds last for a lot longer than that. Coughing and runny nose usually lasts for at least a week, if not two, and can be up to 3-4 weeks. Then sometimes you get two colds, one comes on as the other is going so you have symptoms for a month or more. No boss is that reasonable!

And ime nhs workers don't get a non patient position if they are sick. You would have 20 nurses doing paperwork and one on the ward. There wouldn't be enough paper work to go around.

Although I have seen a fellow nurse cough down on to a patients face as the patient lay flat immobilised in a spinal collar! That was grim! It was an accident but still.

Rubbish I don't smoke and always have a cold