Going to work with a sickness bug?

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My friend rang me tonight after work saying she didn't know how she's got through today with this sickness bug.
She went on to say she had been up all night vomiting and rushing to the toilet all day vomiting.
Aibu to think that's so selfish?
Risking passing it on to everyone.
Aibu to think you don't go to work with anything contagious?

YANBU!

If you're ill, stay at home! Don't spread it around. Easy.

Yabu, of course it’s fine to go to work and spread a sickness bug around!

Well obviously in an ideal world you stay home and don't spread it.

But sometines in reality, you don't go to work, you don't get paid, you don't eat. Easy.

Beyond selfish. I would not be impressed if this were my colleague

Yanbu.

Did no one notice?

If she was that ill no point been at work anyway before the infection control stuff.

I hate people who go to work sick

But sometines in reality, you don't go to work, you don't get paid, you don't eat.

To what, infect other people who then have to take time off and it affects their paycheck? Nice. Totally selfish.

And huh, not working for a day or two means you can't eat?

@AntMoon but it doesn't work that way with low paid jobs such as retail. You don't go in and you'll get sacked.

@Scifi101 there's no legislation to protect against unfair dismussal for sick days?

Scifi101 ~ what about low paid jobs that involve food prep/serving?

Worked in a food factory or two. Rules there are clear, any infection like that and you stay off. However if you do you don't get paid. Nothing. (Well, ssp). You then need to produce written confirmation from a doc that you are fit to return. You will not get a gp appointment around here in less than three weeks. I once effectively ordered a clearly very ill guy to go straight to the doc, turned out pneumonia. But it was perfectly understandably about the dough and the roof over his head. Difficult sometimes

Why would anyone deliberately risk spreading a bug around, just in time for Christmas, didn't anyone notice she was being sick all day and send her home.

I totally agree with you that sick people should not go to work but unfortunately the law is on employers side not the employees.

For example massive cuts to legal aid, fees to go to tribunal etc etc

One of my children has a compromised immune system so I wouldn't want to be near sickness but this is the reality.

No one thinks 'I've got D&v, best thing to do is to drag myself to work and sit there'. They've gone for a reason. Arse hole boss, taken too much sick leave already, on probation, etc.

Not necessarily good reasons, but understandable ones. And certainly not 'easy'.

My dd used to work in a food retail store. She was often pressured to go into work sick. Think flu or tonsillitis sickness bug etc. Manager kept calling her when she was lying in bed in between being horribly sick. I eventually answered her phone and told him NO SHE CAN'T COME IN SHE IS VOMITTING EVERY TEN MINUTES!!!!
It's a food shop ffs. With a lot of elderly customers
Who wants a sick girl serving their food?
Some managers need to get out of Victorian times. Yadnbu

When I was a student I worked in a supermarket and one year, on 23rd Dec my manager came in with a really bad, and still very “active” stomach bug. She was a manager but as it was Christmas and busy she was on the checkouts and on the shop floor helping restock shelves, handling all sorts of food, interacting with lots of customers etc. I guess you could call it an admirable work ethic but really she was probably just giving dozens of people a vomiting bug over Christmas.