Until and unless you can meet your basic needs, such as providing food and shelter for yourself and your family, it’s not possible to care for others. Such is life, and all your name calling and demonizing others isn’t going to change that.
Simply good business. You really dont want sick workers coming in and infecting other workers, infecting clients, or you. Also sick workers tend to be more accident prone (note the warnings on many "cold medicines’) and if they get hurt, you’ll have to pay out.
If you provide insurance more sick workers mean more claims.
Whose pocket is being picked on Christmas Day?
Ebenezer Scrooge’s. It’s a reference to an obscure literary work…
Got it, thanks.
Oh, I agree that it’s good business.
I just don’t think it should be mandated by government.
Regardless of either statement, people who come to work sick are jerks.
Bolding mine. To fight ignorance of contagions, gloves, latex or otherwise will not ptotect others from your germs unless you change them everytime you touch, rub, or have hand contact with the germs/virii you are shedding. Gloves are meant to protect the wearer from themselves being ‘exposed’ by remobing and wqashing after each contact with a patient/person.
If you wear gloves thinking it ptotects others, you have to keep them from getting the goop in the first place. Same as with bare hands, right? Following the line of thought there, I hope.
Best thing for reducing germy transmission to others by hand contact is to wash them and/or use the sanitizing gel-stuff. Period 
Plus, cover mouth nose with something at every sneeze/cough that happens, and wash/sanitize hands yet again. Or else you will leave infectious goo on doorknobs, toulet handles, sink areas or any other thing you touch that others share contact with - because others may/will touch said area(s) at some close point in time. BAM - they will probably touch/rub/scratch an itch of their own noses/lips/mouth and become sick from someone else’s lack of attention to detail of preventing spread of respiratory illness (and other types, too, of course).
Just sayin’ - no offense meant, I prromise, Broomstick! Good to know you have reasonable precautionary stuff available (sani-gel - use it often) and doing what you can to minimize volume of contagions.
I’m certain other folks, particularly folk like** Qadgop the Mercotan** and other experienced/knowledgable ‘medical’ workers share the same approach to what I described above re: gloving up your hands and wearing same gloves ‘all day’. Doesn’t work quite like it appears you think…and wanted to help spread the proper way of prevention.
My wife went to the doctor on Monday about some back problems. When she walked up to the desk, the receptionista was telling someone else behind the counter: “I really feel horrible; I think I’m going to go home.” Then she hands my wife a clipboard :smack: :mad: :rolleyes:
My niece (a nurse) just posted to FB that she’s down with the flu, and that yes, she had gotten the flu shot. One of her idiot friends posted back: “That’s why I never get a flu shot; it’s a crap shoot.” Yeah, that’s why I never wear a seat belt, cuz you never know.
Well, Flu season is coming up, so I am going to resurrect this.
If you have a contagious disease- stay the fuck home.
Dont take a crappy OTC symptom reliever and go into work to infect your coworkers and friends.
Preach it!
Ooooh, a resurrection.
And guess what? You’re still a fucking idiot!
You’re still a selfish pig that doesnt care about anyone else but yourself.
Can we bitch about selfish customers who won’t stay the fuck home when they’re sick? “I called in sick to work, but my wife sent me out to buy some groceries.” **ACHOO! **>sneearrk!< cough Holy fuck, people, if you’ve called in sick to work because you’re actually sick STAY THE FUCK HOME!
I only get extremely mild symptoms with my colds. Initially, they’re indistinguishable from allergy flareups. Should I stay home if I sneeze for any reason at all?
Also, I live alone. I do not necessarily have enough food stocked for a few days of illness. Should I starve?
Or, I have a cold but have to get the kids to school, and one of them is in Prep which means that I have to wait around with all the other kids and parents in the yard until the school bell rings (you’re not allowed to drop them off and leave). Do I keep the kids home with me until I feel better?
Or, my kitteh has been knocked by a car and I need to get her to the vet urgently, which means sitting in the waiting room for some time until attended. But OH NO!! I HAVE A SNIFFLE…should I wait with my injured kitteh at home until I’m certified lurgy-free?
A close relative dies, funeral is tomorrow. I feel OK, albeit with a cough and a snotty nose…:dubious:
C’mon man, there are so many scenarios that make it damned near impossible for people to just ‘stay home’ when they’re under the weather. Life nowadays just doesn’t WORK that way!
And as I mentioned in an earlier part of the thread, when I was office based, we didn’t have the luxury of sick pay (or any other leave entitlements) so if I didn’t work, my kids didn’t eat.
Or I have been to the doctor, and he agrees that what I have is indeed bacterial, and I am coughing up a lung because I am also asthmatic, and even though my asthma is quite well-controlled the vast majority of the time and requires no maintenance drugs or special measures of any kind, whenever I get an upper respiratory bug it pretty much means that I will start hacking my lungs up. He has prescribed an antibiotic and a steroid to calm the worst of the bronchiospasms.
Should I go to the pharmacy and fill it, or make my husband come home from work so he can fill it for me and have him miss a day of work too? Or since the Costco pharmacy is on the way home from the doctor’s office, and I don’t want to wait all day hacking my lungs up and prefer to let the drugs do their thing, should I stop by Costco on the way home, and maybe pick up some juice and chicken soup as long as I’m there anyway?
The people I mind the most on this issue are the ones who simultaneously don’t think paid sick time is needed AND think minimum wage employees should stay home if sick AND think it’s okay for them to be fired if they do.
These seem to mostly fall on one side of the aisle, FWIW.
No one on Earth wants to work while they’re sick. I am self employed and can take off work for myself or to watch my two children when they are ill. Many cannot afford that.
This Pitting should be for employers who disregard the health and well being of their company and their employees.
Fallacy of the excluded middle.
For sure.