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).

Or people with limited critical thinking skills.

How utterly ridiculous 😂

No-on on this thread is ‘angry’ at people testing-just bemused that they want to.

If its not through fear why would it bother someone if others test, stay home or wear masks. Why would someone need to argue with someone over this. How does this effect others. If it's not fear why would this stuff matter to other people. If people genuinely wasn't bothered about it they wouldn't even have an opinion so the fact it sparks such a strong reaction from some is very telling.

You don't think calling people bedwetters and claiming to be a nurse when the poster clearly isn't. Isn't an extreme response to a thread. It's comments like these that show how bothered some people really are.

Because they lack critical thinking skills. Just because covid in 2025 isn't the same as it was 5 years ago we still have vulnerable people for whom it would be extremely serious.

Yeah, completely selfish and absolutely arseholes!!

They should stay home instead of spreading it around, absolutely no excuse to go to a yoga class!!

These threads do remind you how many selfish and stupid people surround us though, it's worrying!!

I thought you were taking yourself out of this thread...

I don't want to test.

I don't know anyone that tests just because. The vast majority of people who test do so because they have someone vulnerable in their lives.

I'd love my youngest daughter to be a fit and healthy child. But she's not. She's a kid that's been in ICU multiple times due to Covid.

Testing gives us a better chance of treating her quickly and knowing what we are dealing with and means we get to keep her alive for longer.

Yes, isn't it delightful that in some areas there are 100+ applicants for one entry level job and eye-wateringly high levels of unemployment and poverty. If it was the first job interview after weeks of searching and you needed a job to feed your DCs and keep your home you would do the same.

I work at the hospital and they don’t seem to care about Covid! I don’t know anyone who tests. If a Dr is positive, they can still perform ops etc (I mean they’d have to test to know!) but this tells me all I need to know!

I think it’s a mixture of things.

For some it’s simply they don’t want to pay for a test or stay home if it’s inconvenient. So it’s easier to ridicule those that do than to feel guilty.

For others it’s misdirected trauma from lockdown. Some people struggled more than others and attribute negative consequences to people worrying about it, rather than the situation itself. Anything related to or reminding them is triggering, even if it actually doesn’t affect them . A kind of denial and diversion of blame.

Then I think others actually can’t bear to confront the idea it’s a danger as it would be too style cramping/ worrying etc and it’s simply “ pretend it isn’t a problem.” Like the child who crossly shouts “there’s no such thing as monsters” Because they work in a place they are constantly exposed etc, it’s easier to manage the stress by denial than balancing precautions.

But I always notice the lack of logic in their rage. It’s just rage. Why shouldn’t someone test themselves to see what is going on in their own body? We have home pregnancy tests, home BV kits etc.

I think for some it's also seen as a bit of a luxury to be able to care about Covid. Some managers/bosses are ruthless about absence and in many professions there is the very real prospect of losing your job or being scheduled less hours if you are seen as fickle. For many people life has had to move on and if you are able to isolate yourself for what many will see as being like a cold you are very privileged.

People are fatigued at being called selfish granny killers when they are in survival mode themselves.

Yes I can see that too - and it’s a fair point.

But I wonder why they don’t just be honest rather than ridiculing and scoffing. They’d probably get less push back and no one would be as inclined to say those things.

Also you can still go to work but make the effort to wear a mask. It doesn’t stop transmission entirely but at least it’s a barrier if you know you have it.

well said

I'm in a customer facing role and I didn't meet my sales targets when I wore a mask. I think people generally prefer to see a whole person's face. Those with the best sales targets were given the desirable shifts and more overtime.

Even if you are honest, some people will still call you a selfish granny killer.

Yanbu to cancel an interview if you were too unwell to attend.
I am surprised that people are still testing themselves for covid. Hospital admissions are extremely low in numbers now and it's rare to become critically ill or die because of it.

This thread demonstrates nicely why it’s hard to get employment if you are immunosuppressed and have a chronic illness. People saying they won’t employ ‘flaky’ people.
At the same time media is constantly stigmatising people who aren’t working.
I test so I can get antivirals which help make Covid less severe as I can’t make antibodies to the virus from vaccines

@bigvig, @Drivingmissmaisie COVID hasn’t gone away, you know! I’ve just had 6 weeks Of being signed off work, with it, and complications following it.
Just because you’re clearly lucky enough not to have contracted it recently doesn’t mean it’s not around, nor that it isn’t as or more deadly than it was during lockdown.
FWIW, I had COVID a couple of times during lockdown, and it wasn’t anywhere near as severe as this time - AND I’d had the vaccine within the last 6 months, too!

But you only need to wear it when you’ve got it.

I am not sure what your role is within your hospital but any surgeon will be scrubbed and in full PPE, as standard , when operating .

When I had an operation a few months ago, I had to do a Covid test every day for three days before the surgery, as well as using that horrible hibiscrub for my body and hair for three days.

She is doing okay, but 7 weeks on and still breaking out in hives and white blood counts still too low.
her first bout of Covid ended up in her tonsils being removed as an emergency 🙈