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To stay off work with a common cold?

29 replies

VinegarTitsThePorker · 27/04/2009 14:24

All this talk of swine flu, Its making me feel guilty. It makes my slight (however, progressively worsening) cold feel like a big dose of hypercondria (sp?)

I work in and air conditioned open plan office, where my germs will spread like a dose of clap in a brothel. I dont see any point in infecting my colleagues, with my cold, that is, not the clap

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littlelamb · 27/04/2009 14:27

YANBU
Im my open plan, air conditioned office I was sat right under the vent. I used to get everything going and they used to wonder why
Better to be at home til you're better I'd say.

ThePhantomPooer · 27/04/2009 14:27

I also have a cold/hypochondria induced Swine Flu.

As a colleague i would be glad you stayed at home. Colds suck.

FrankMustard · 27/04/2009 14:32

YANBU.
Nothing worse than those martyrs who go into work, whatever they have, and pass it round.
Good for you, I say. Get well soon!

AMumInScotland · 27/04/2009 14:58

If you've got a grim cold, stay home and keep your germs to yourself!

willowthewispa · 27/04/2009 14:59

I've got a horrible cold and am at home today, as I'm working in the baby room of a nursery and don't want to make them all ill (though I probably caught it off a child in the first place ). YANBU.

Aida123 · 27/04/2009 15:10

I always feel guilty if I'm off work which is stupid really as nobody else there seems to care if they take time off.

ilikeyoursleeves · 27/04/2009 15:14

YANBU, I was off for two days the other week with the cold (though I am 6 months PG and knackered too and couldn't really take anything to help my thumping head).

cheshirekitty · 27/04/2009 19:49

YANBU. If you have a cold, you should stay home with plenty of hot drinks, some nice chocolate bars and some good magazines.

Cheshirekitty offers to do your housework for you and fluff up your pillows.

CountessDracula · 27/04/2009 19:50

can't you work from home?

QOD · 27/04/2009 19:50

ah well, I have a cold from hell, tummy ache, chesty leaning toward chest infection cough, wheeze and twinges in my ears. Definetely swine flu, and I haven't missed any work.... I end up not getting paid!

moondog · 27/04/2009 19:52

YABUR
Oc course you go to work with a cold.
It's not a life and death situation.
Everyone gets a cold.
Glad you don't work for me-you would be out on yer arse.

Numberfour · 27/04/2009 19:52

i had an horrific cold last week and felt grom beyond belief. so no, YANBU. i agree: stay at home and keep your germs to yourself.

those martyrs who go to work and spread all their snotty germs do my head in!!

TheFallenMadonna · 27/04/2009 20:01

I had a couple of days off work when I lost my voice. I'm a teacher, and a voice is pretty essential to the job (I know this because I did work for three days without it before I took the time off) and I was also woriied about doing some real and lasting damage with straining to be heard. And no, I couldn't work from home.

pointydog · 27/04/2009 20:03

This swine flu with be the death of this country due to all the people skiving in fear.

throckenholt · 27/04/2009 20:04

I think if you are too ill to be effective at work (and I at least can get like that with a cold) then there is no point in being there. Especially if you have to drive to get there - because driving when you are not concentrating because your head is bunged up endangers every one on your route.

I wish more people would stay at home for a day or two and recover more quickly because they rested. And you don't spread your bugs around so much.

SerendipitousHarlot · 27/04/2009 20:07

I don't really agree with people taking time off for a cold. If it's really bad, then fair enough. But just a cold that you can treat with Lemsip, I think YABU to stay off.

daisybaby · 27/04/2009 20:42

The thing is - some people have a cold and it barely registers with them, others have a cold and they feel really ill. It seems to me that neither camp understand the other, but FWIW, I think you should stay home and avoid passing it around.

cheshirekitty · 27/04/2009 20:48

Would any of the people who said go to work with a cold be ok with being nursed by someone who was sneezing all over them?

Not being bolshie, just interested in peoples views.

QOD · 27/04/2009 21:00

I worked fine, i just snotted and whinged, but as i am in telesales (someone has to do it!)

BigBellasBeerBelly · 27/04/2009 21:02

I've never worked anywhere where a cold was considered an acceptable reason for time off, unless it was one with a high temp attached.

laza222 · 27/04/2009 21:50

Well I had to go into work when I was ill the other week and couldn't speak but would rather have not! Certainly didn't feel up to it. Only in my first year, still on probation and had already had time off for a doctors appointment for it. So I felt I had to go in. As a result, I thought I had got rid of it and ended up ill all weekend again and still not 100% so in my opinion, YANBU to take the time off. Recover properly and then wrorry about work!

LolaTheShowgirl · 27/04/2009 22:29

moondog, we're all glad we don't work for you! you sound vicious! the female alan sugar! do you have your own business?

Salme101 · 27/04/2009 22:37

YANBU. I have every sympathy for people who are forced to struggle into work because they won't get paid or their jobs are really so essential they cannot be spared, but really, v few people fall into the latter category. As for self-important tossers bosses who bully staff into coming in when they are ill, they are a vast bore and add nothing to this country's poor productivity rates. I truly think England is a nation of Reggie Perrins, not a nation of CJs, thank gawd

pointydog · 27/04/2009 22:45

ach it's a cold. That ain't struggling

Salme101 · 27/04/2009 22:47

ach, it's just a job. Stay home and get better instead of being a martyr and making everyone else ill.

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