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).

Why test for Covid? It's irrelevant.

If you are really unwell then of course you email and ask to reschedule.

As the interviewer I'd be ok with it but just a bit 🤔about why you felt you needed to say it was covid.

That really says more about you than it does about OP.

I have done what OP has done and still got the job. The interview I rescheduled was on Zoom, so there was no risk of infection. However, I felt so awful and out of it that I knew I couldn't do a good interview.

Please try to consider the people who are impacted before making those unfunny flippant quips.

Also you don’t actually have to be “ dropping dead” to be very unwell.

It is different though isn’t it? I know of two otherwise healthy 40 year old men who died from heart attacks resulting from Covid complications. They just went to bed and didn’t wake up again. One was 2024 and the other 2023 so not peak pandemic time either.
haven’t met a single otherwise healthy adult who has ever died from a cold or a regular flu.

I would see you as organised and efficient under these circumstances and I would re-schedule without a second thought.

Interesting thread on the psychological defense mechanisms of those who downplay the risks of covid: Psychological defense mechanisms Although I doubt the downplayers on here will be able to muster up the courage to read this or the previous info I posted. Having few symptoms with an acute infection does not mean you didn't incur long term damage.

Do you think about how triggering it can be for people to still obsess about Covid 5 years on? We’re sick of hearing about it. It’s time to move on.

Ah! This is a properly presented version of what I was trying to say above.

I hadn’t realised there was research on it, but it’s how it often strikes me when people get very sneering and defensive about the risks.

Quite, I stopped testing myself at least 3 years ago.

Profile pic wearing a mask. Sigh

Turning up for an interview sick is very poor form. You've done the right thing. make sure you chase them up for a new date.

Yes. That’s a good enough reason not to read it in itself . 🙄

As the interviewer I'd be ok with it but just a bit 🤔about why you felt you needed to say it was covid.

Because Covid is more contagious than a common cold so more of a reason why you needed to cancel an interview.

Brilliantly illustrating his points 😆

Do you have full access to their medical records, the inquest, there could be other reasons at play.

So your experience trumps actual data does it? Covid has a fatality rate of less than 1%. And that is including cases where Covid was cited as the cause of death on death certificates when they had preexisting cancer / heart issues etc etc. Lots of viruses could potentially kill someone who’s otherwise ill.

@Justsaynonow you’re wasting your time sadly. When the full picture of what damage even a mild case of Covid can do to even healthy people, much least repeated exposure, because ‘who cares if I spread it, it’s just a cold’ becomes clearer, these will be the same people doing daily mail sad face ‘but now it’s impacting me, everyone should care’.

We are still only scratching the surface of understanding the long term health implications of covid and why it decimates some more than others but hey, as long as ‘nurses’ and ‘pragmatists’ like those on this thread never have to give a shit about anyone else or be triggered by someone testing or wearing a mask, who cares about the ‘bedwetters’.

Why are you so fucking rude

Ah well that’s a great reason to go ahead and give them a virus then. 🙄

Actual medical evidence, from peer reviewed papers, with evidence and statistics, or just one persons opinion?

haha rude, so anyone who challenges people and encourages them to think is rude?

You can of course cancel an interview at any time.

You can't expect a company/organisation to reschedule a date for you. They will have arranged a day for interviewing, people will have rescheduled their diaries, meeting rooms will be booked etc etc.

People drop out of interviews all the time. It'd be an exception for any one candidate to be rescheduled. Possibly if you'd been specifically head hunted.

Sounds like you are the one in denial? We now know 5 years on that Covid isn’t as serious as everyone thought it was. We’re all trying to move on, but seems that lots of people wish we were all in a constant state of fear still.

How do you build immunity then?

Ah yes, all people who have become disabled due to covid, who have health conditions that could mean covid further disables or kills them, people who don’t want to pass it to vulnerable members of then family or friends, just ‘move on’.

Being thick and selfish is one thing, being thick and selfish and demanding other people risk their health so you don’t want to think about anyone but yourself is quite another.