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I'm sorry but gonna have to have a pop at the Martyrs of this world (well one guy in my office in particular) who believe that by going into work with raging flu symptoms, sweating & coughing all over everybody and showering them with their germs as opposed to erm.. staying home, and then expecting tea and sympathy or worse still a pat on the back for making it in, well, to hell with you, I along with 7 other people in our office have now come down with your illness, merry fecking christmas to you too!


Well thats what I wished I could have said, but on account he is my boss there was not much doing, so I shall screech it into cyber space, (hoping he doesn't use this forum too!) ;-)

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I HATE people like that.

I work from home alot and am a biker so don't often get to mix with the great snivelling public on public transport, but today had to use the bus and about 15 people were coughing and sneezing and now I have a sore throat! Serves me right for wanting to drink, I s'pose (thus not using the bike!)

Well, if he really needed to be in, or was worried about getting the sack for taking sick time off, I would have kind of sympathised, he didn't need to be there, it was more a stab at heroism and a "look at how ill I am but I'm still here getting on with my job" kind of thing, the worse thing was he barely got anything done anyway, messed up on a few things then overheard me calling him John of Arc!!! so now we have the situation where instead of it just being him absent from work sick, there are going to be 8 people off and no-one to run the office between the xmas and new year period so he's basically shot himself in the foot, granted the germs could have been caught anywhere, but we have air conditioning in our small offices and no access to windows or fresh air so really he is going to be the obvious target for blame.


Just hoping it will pass quickly, had a temperature of 39.8 this morning, last time I had a temp that high was when I was a kid! hoping the worst of it passes before xmas

Told a recent survey found that 75% of sickies occur on a Monday or Friday as opposed to the 40% that it should be.

Funny Dat.

Having been a self-confessed mug and hardly taken a sickie in my first 15 years at work,I made sure I got my 8/10 days in per annum to supplement my meagre 6 weeks hols. towards the end:)

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote:

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> Told a recent survey found that 75% of sickies

> occur on a Monday or Friday as opposed to the 40%

> that it should be.

> Funny Dat.

> Having been a self-confessed mug and hardly taken

> a sickie in my first 15 years at work,I made sure

> I got my 8/10 days in per annum to supplement my

> meagre 6 weeks hols. towards the end:)


Seems a little rash there TLS, can you be sure that your boss at the Times Literary Supplement doesn't pop in here?

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote:

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> Told a recent survey found that 75% of sickies

> occur on a Monday or Friday as opposed to the 40%

> that it should be.

> Funny Dat.

> Having been a self-confessed mug and hardly taken

> a sickie in my first 15 years at work,I made sure

> I got my 8/10 days in per annum to supplement my

> meagre 6 weeks hols. towards the end:)


I've just started down the same road, had three days off in the last quarter and felt like a naughty schoolboy.

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