Who wants to use personal days when you are actually sick? I save them for nice/work days on a vehicle or for lounging on a Friday.
Then again, if the management want's people to use sick time when they are sick, they shouldn't give us a bonus for not using it.
Haha. I am very thankful for my office, where I can just close myself off to the world.
But true statements, every one of them.
I have no choice. Showing up sick to work is still way less worse then what I get exposed to on a daily basis working in a hospital ER.
i knew the first four words of the post would be "stay the berkeley home". do i win anything?
There is a marketing campaign here in PA telling sick people to stay home.
Sick people are just boosting your immune systems you pansies! 
Don't waste your breath. The people your message is aimed at will continue to ignore it. For some reason when I was driving the great unwashed around I was sick all the time, from wicked colds to something my doctor couldn't identify that caused all the skin on my hands to itch and peel off. I carried purell and rubber gloves on my belt. Now I haven't had so much as a sniffle in four years.
if everyone stayed home every time they had the sniffles, nothing would ever get done and everyone would be looking for new jobs all the time for using up all their sick time.
I understand going out with the sniffles but I used to get people that belonged in a cemetary. If you can't keep most of your fluids to yourself you shouldn't be around people.
Why be home and miserable when you can be at work miserable. 
Seriously though, up until the job I have now I never really had sick leave. In the army you always have to go in and go on sick call to see a doc to tell you that you were sick and go home then after seeing the doc and getting the written form telling you to go home you had to take that to the admin office before going home, half a day used up. When I retired and started work as a contractor they didn't offer sick leave so you had to use your 2 weeks vacation time for sick, not happening. I'll go to work sick and cordone myself off and post a sign saying sick stay away. Now that I got myself a gubmint job that includes sick leave, I've only used it to take care of sick family members and/or take them to the dr. Saving it up to retire early or when I have a heart attack, whichever is first.
Aww, someone is scared of bacteria! Adorable.
I work at a hospital too, so typically my immune system gets built up and I infect SWMBO when I get home.
I'm all for saving my sick days until I want to use them, after all, work ain't much fun on the best of days. 
I've even been known to stroll around here in those Tokyo style infection masks when I have a bad cold. Actually got a positive reaction out of the infection control lady and some brownie points with admin.
Wally wrote:
I understand going out with the sniffles but I used to get people that belonged in a cemetary. If you can't keep most of your fluids to yourself you shouldn't be around people.
by the time you show symptoms, you've already spread it to everyone else, anyways... and you probably got it from someone else at work. so really, staying home to try not to infect other people is kind of pointless.
T.J.
SuperDork
6/1/11 7:09 a.m.
Airplanes and churches are the places that I see this the most. There is always some sick clown on my flights. Coughing, sneezing, sniffling, etc. Hello, we are all breathing your infested air.
Church, I guess sick people figure they better attend and maybe a miracle will occur and they will be healed? They are always there though.
Wally wrote:
If you can't keep most of your fluids to yourself you shouldn't be around people.
Some fluids are meant for sharing.
T.J. wrote:
Airplanes and churches are the places that I see this the most. There is always some sick clown on my flights. Coughing, sneezing, sniffling, etc. Hello, we are all breathing your infested air.
You've discovered my evil plan.
I spend hundreds of dollars, weeks in advance of the flight, then I just go hang out in ER rooms across the county until I get sick.
If I don't get sick in time. I'll cancel the flight and try again.
and many are not.. especially at high speeds
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:
Wally wrote:
If you can't keep most of your fluids to yourself you shouldn't be around people.
Some fluids are meant for sharing.
And according to videos I've seen on the internet, on a city bus even!
My last job (admittedly, part time 25 hours per week) had no sick time. My boss would throw a fit when I asked for time off to recuperate/get better quicker. Ironically, I worked delivering pizzas.
I absolutely refuse to shake hands with someone who sneezes or coughs into their hands....and I'm amazed when these folks take it as some kind sleight when I won't.
dogbreath wrote:
Aww, someone is scared of bacteria! Adorable.
If puking and E36 M3ting your guts out is your idea of a good time, maybe you should be in some of those movies Corey's talking about.
As long as companies and bosses stygmatize and punish workers for going home sick, and reward workers for coming to work sick, nothing will change.
From stock piling sick leave for retirement to bonuses for people who take no sick leave in a year. Everything is stacked in favor of coming to work sick.
The problem is the people who go out sick are the people who think it's ok to sneeze. cough vomit ect on other people. (yes I have been thrown up on, three times by people who were sober) Turn away from people, cover your mouth, or atleast put a plastic bag over over your head and keep your germs to yourself. there is a
As long as companies and bosses stygmatize and punish workers for going home sick, and reward workers for coming to work sick, nothing will change.
From stock piling sick leave for retirement to bonuses for people who take no sick leave in a year. Everything is stacked in favor of coming to work sick.
Agreed. See my OP. I'm talking about motherberkeleyers with nothing better to do coming into my shop where I work on a freaking Tuesday (i.e., they have no job, or are not working that day,) sounding like their berkeleying tuberculosis ridden ass is on death's-door.
Vomit on them. When they retract in shock , shrug and say something flippant like, "You blew snot on me. I thought you'd be OK with this." Eventually, word will spread. It has too.
