Quote Originally Posted by spindizzy View Post
And curses to people who go to work sick, take public transit and spew and cough and sneeze and then touch everything......
I love my job, really I do, the pay and bennies are great, my co-workers are great, I'm a teeny tiny itsy bitsy cog in a big company (I forget if it's Fortune 50 or 10) .... we have no sick time.

If I'm sick I call in sick, I'm paid while I'm off.

If I do that often or long enough I'm fired.

The formula for what is too often or too long is kept in an ivory tower guarded by dragons. With my 13 years of PERFECT attendance (except the one time I rode my bike off a cliff to avoid hitting a kid and took a day off) I don't know what it is. If I caught the bug or a bug I could/would stay home.

But we are the be-all-end all of presentee'ism. Coworkers mostly younger than me with kids all trying to come to work each day so they don't get fired for attendance. I can't count on anyone staying home because they or a family member had this bug.

As a member of the building's safety team I am trying to get prevention tips posted in every bathroom, every break room, at every sink in the building including the admonition to stay home if you or a family member are sick.

These are official corporate policy and memos. Can I get those printed and posted? Noooo. If I do can they stay up? Nooooo.

It gets taken down by management and all we have is sell-sell-sell rah rah c&^p posted. Even in the stalls

There is a corporate department that does flu shots. Can we get them to show up in our building? Nooooooo.

Knott, Eden and all, what year is it that I may have some immunity if born before then? I'm a 1956 era.