AIBU to cancel interview due to COVID?

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I have a job interview this morning but have COVID. Didn't sleep. Work up feeling crap and did a test. Just emailed to cancel. Feel terrible that it's last minute and really want the job. Have asked to reschedule. Did I do the right thing? AIBU? For info, it was a 4 hour interview (tests etc then face to face interview - just don't think I could have got through it - quite apart from not wanting to infect everyone).

I've given up reading all the comments.Thanks to those who offered supportive words. This really wasn't about COVID, per se. Or wasn't meant to be. It was about cancelling when I was sick. Signing off now (to recover!) and awaiting the result of the poll.

Thanks. I don’t think I’ll take advice from a stranger on the internet and instead use common sense.

80% YANBU, don't worry about some comments.

I think it would have been better to email and ask if they’d still like you to go in having tested positive

Despite knowing all there is to know about Covid, you are not capable of placing Covid + Parkinson's into a search engine... Your poor Dad.

Those concerns were all valid - and to be honest I suspect they are the distress that lies behind most of the scathing attitudes to people who worry about Covid testing/ spreading if to others etc.

But with respect it’s an irrational emotional response because people testing and being careful isn’t going to make any of those things happen; it’s more likely to prevent them. What’s it to you if someone else tests and stays home?

I suspect it just makes you feel guilty.

Instead of saying well I personally can’t be bothered, and refuse to cramp my style, you opt to sneer at them.

And whatever the inconveniences, it’s never fair to just say I couldn’t care less about the vulnerable - just as it isn’t fair to dismiss the mental health issues of those who struggled with a lockdown. But there isn’t a lockdown now: people being careful is doing you no harm whatsoever.

And here’s me thinking we left the reductive hysterical ignorant whatsboutery back in 2021 …. Sadly not it seems.

I wouldn't hire someone who called in sick to the interview. But then we always get lots of excellent candidates to choose from for roles when they come up. Not worth the risk of ending up with someone flaky.

I’m sure everyone cared about all the people you mentioned, but why should people stop caring now that there are no restrictions in place? The worst of the pandemic has clearly been over for some time but that doesn’t mean that Covid has gone and is not still killing people, making some people very ill, and causing long term health issues.

I care just as much about the people who are very unwell with the virus now, or losing loved ones, as I did during the height of the pandemic, and I think I have as much of a moral duty to do what I reasonably and easily can to avoid spreading Covid if I think I’ve got it (which includes using one of the tests from Amazon which were £7 for a box of 10 so hardly expensive or difficult to obtain). The difference now is that we know a lot more about the virus and to most people it isn’t as frightening to catch it now as it was in 2020. Of course it’s no more than a light cold to some people but it is still much much more to a significant proportion of the population and I think everyone owes it to people they come into contact with to take a test if they really think they may have Covid.

If you care so much about women giving birth, babies/children and the elderly then you must agree that it’s best to stay away from them when you have any type of contagious virus/infection, right?

Jesus people still test for Covid! CRAZY!

I would be glad you didn’t come in poorly but would think you were mad doing a Covid test!

I wouldn't hire someone who knowingly gave me covid

I have a box. Bought some last time I felt awful and yes it was Covid so I stayed out of the office .

Jesus! People still more vulnerable to covid than the common cold - crazy!

Don't you think that a prospective employer would be more understanding about a no show at an interview due to covid instead of a cold?

The lack of emotional intelligence demonstrated on this thread from a handful of posters is mind boggling.

But – what if someone’s – sick?

Do you assume employees are lying when they’re ill or do you just think being ill is a made up thing?

But wouldn’t that be the case for many viruses? Vulnerable people are able to stay at home as are people who feel too unwell to go out. Some people can’t stay home with a sniffle

Same I bought a box of 5 the other day as I was breathless and felt crap so it was either covid or I'd need to go to drs because my asthma is playing up. It came back positive so it answered my question and I didn't need to waste the drs time and infect vulnerable people in a gp waiting room.

How long do the vulnerable people stay home for then? Forever?
Theres always people posting they can’t possibly ly stay home with chicken pox for a week or covid but yet they say vulnerable people can

its crazy sometimes. You wouldn’t go and visit someone with cancer if you had Covid but it’s like people don’t expect people with cancer to be out and about

You think all vulnerable people should just stay at home, as if they don’t also have work/commitments/lives too? I’m pregnant and would be very annoyed if someone came into an interview I was holding ill, as I do still have to go into the world and work. The onus is on the person who is ill to keep themselves away from others.

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Yes, lots of viruses and other bugs germs are bad as well, but we don't have the testing facility for them & Covid is worse than mini for some of us.

oh, we can just stay home can we? Who is going to pay our mortgage who is going to pay our bills?

People that are unwell need to stay home and not pass whatever bugs they have onto other people.

Why do people get so angry that some people are still testing for Covid? My dad has cancer and recently had an operation that required a pre op Covid test. It is not the same as a cold. You can also buy flu tests in Tesco.

Anyway, as an employer I’d reschedule the interview if a candidate was too unwell to attend and they would be scored in the same way so no impact on whether they’re hired.

Agh I hate it when people go out when they’re ill. It’s so f*ing selfish! Especially the ones who think they’re heroes for being such a trooper 🙄

There were sniffling coughers at two different yoga classes I went to this week, one at each.

Thanks arseholes, now the rest of us will probably catch it too. Particularly great if you’re self-employed or have caring responsibilities.

Vulnerable people need to go to dr, pharmacy, buy food.

The people who get angry about other people testing and protecting themselves and others are usually the ones struggling the most with the fear of covid it's much easier for them to live in denial so they will always argue it's existence, so whenever people mention it they will fight against it

I just find it odd. I don’t test (although having had it twice I certainly recognised it the second time - definitely wipes me out whereas for dh it is just a bad cold). But I can’t get cross about people being curious and testing. I did find it interesting the hospital needed my dad to test before his op.