Has anyone else felt like the attitude about illness is even more fucked up then before?? I still feel like an absolute twat if I call in sick, even though my current job is fine. But this job and the one prior which was even worse for this has this odd double standard.
We all know that a human does not go from healthy to sick in the snap of your fingers. Sometimes we go to work and don't realize we are sick until after the day is over. My coworkers and managers are paranoid (not saying it's wrong to be) but the messaging confuses me
Myself and another coworker have been told by our manager to go home due to coughs. We also both, on separate occasions, the day preceding the one we were sent home, told to stay home again when we told her we still had the coughs (it was just a cough, never amounted to anything)
We do not feel these are sick days that we called out for as we both feel like we were being asked not to come in. My coworker was even asked if she could take cough suppressant which wouldn't even do anything of it was contagious other than mask the sound. My coworker said after a day and a half off that she is coming in and that she needs the hours and she shouldn't have to stay home over a cough. Manager agreed and then did it to me.
My other coworker will come in sick, call out when she wants but she will complain so much if someone seems “sick” and also if they call out
I hate working. Not even the work. The part where I'm unbelievably responsible for other adults feelings