People coming to work sick. Oh yes- that's been a pet peeve of mine for a few years now. Being stuck in an overheated, unventilated office is bad enough but with people bravely struggling on sick seriously annoys me.

Why don't they make it policy that anyone who has a cough or cold should stay at home from the start and not come back till they're totally better. Ok - so you might get a few people pulling a fast one, but when you consider an office of maybe 50 people, all getting sick, all dropping in productivity and quality of work, it must cost companies millions.

Veronica - you have my sympathy being stuck in a classroom full of sicky kids. When you started out teaching did you find you caugh everything going? My aunt who's a teacher found that after a few years she started to get immune to most things and only got struck by the real lurgies.