Stay home when you are sick or not?

How about all your co-workers? Can they afford to lose a day? Because you are carrying all your germs to work to share with them. Everything you touch ends up with germs. Every time you sneeze, you spread germs. Every phone you talk on, spreads germs. How about any customers you wait on during the day? Can they afford to lose a day? Some people may be hit with worse things than the cold you have, simply because you shared all you germs with them. Maybe they will go into bronchitis or pneumonia, but that's okay, because you didn't miss a day at work. Sorry, I know times are hard for everyone right now, but being selfish enough to put everyone you come in contact with at work at risk is neither smart nor friendly. Stay home unless you are isolated in a separate building from the rest of the world.

It's a no win situation, isn't it. If you stay home, you miss work and that costs you money, and possibly the ire of a boss. But if you come to work, people are like, why are you around here and spreading your germs? A person just can't win. I hope you feel better.

Unfortunately in the time we're living, many people, like you, can't afford to stay home. I have a friend who was so sick last winter that she called in at work to take time off. Her idiot boss told her that if she didn't come to work, she would be fired. That's ridiculous. The problem with your situation is, the more you work, the less you rest and the longer it will take to recoup. The other problem, of course, is the risk you put others in of infecting them as well. I have another friend who has a very low immunity and when he's around someone who may have nothing more than a sniffle or a slight cold, he'll get so sick that he's out of commission for about 3 months. Doesn't seem fair to me. I have absolutely no problem at all staying home even if I only feel that I'm on the verge of getting something. I just wish that it was as easy for everyone else to do that as it is for me. You'd feel better faster and others won't be infected.

I felt this on my own many times. I went to work even very sick and I regret now. I realized that this made my suffering longer than usual and there are bad consequences now. Rest and treatment in case of cold for example, shorten the sickness period. That is you get better more quickly. Then if you don't rest you may look as if the sickness is gone, but it can come back stronger. Health is the most important element of life, that's for sure.

If you really cannot stay home to sleep it off, try making some soup with lots and lots of garlic. You cant do this at work so do this as soon as you get home. After taking all of this garlicky soup, take your asprin and sleep. Way to disguise the garlicky taste is Sautee the garlic with oil and add ready made chicken broth or any other broth you like. Do this whenever you start feeling sick with cold. i hope that it will work for you like it has worked for me who is a stay at home mom and got no medical leave whatso ever.

hello anetteh! althought you love to go for work because youll be losing your day salary, but think of your health situation first and those people who loves you and cares for you. if your sick and have colds with virus, better for you to stay at home. if you'll be working for the sake of money, think of yourself too. if you'll go to work you will only worsen everything, since you got a virus, some of your co worker can also get colds because of you. better to stay home, have rest, drink a lot of water, enough sleep, take the right medicine, and the next day youll be feeling fine., ready for another's day work. so dont feel regret to any cent that will be lose, think of yourself, worth a million of you. :)

I don't get sick that often so when I do get a cold I get a bad head cold. Running nose, watery eyes, stuffy nose and most cold medicine does not relieve or eliminate the symptoms. About the only thing that does relieve is Benedryl and even then sometime it does not work but makes me incredibly sleepy. So in answer to your question - I stay home. I work to closely with co-workers and the customers so it is uncomfortable when you feel and look like your nose is running off your face!

If a simple cold I think no need for us to stay at home. But if we suffer from flu and fever much better to stay at home for a little bit of rest.. Have a nice day!

I say stay at home. When you're sick, you wouldn't be as productive as you usually are when you're healthy. You tend to lose focus too, cause there are so many things going on around you and it's hard to do anything when you're sick. That's why I definitely think you should just stay home when you're sick, and when you're feeling better, make up for the work that you weren't able to do when you're sick.

I will take medicine and stay home to rest especially when I have flu, runny nose, and sneezing. because everyday I go to work by bus, walking and train. So if I still go to work that day, I won't only affect my work mates but also people in public, bus, and train. I work in a very famous and expensive cafe, my boss don't want anyone who have flu to be around until they get recovered. Because if the customer sees one of the stuff having flu, they won't even enter our cafe because they don't want to get affected and bring it back to their household.

The ideal option is to stay at home. Colds are caused by viruses. It's a very minor illness but it causes a lot of discomfort. The best way to treat a cold is to take a lot of fluids and a lot of rest. Working at the office with a headache, stuffy nose, watery eyes...is not productive at all. And if you force yourself to work when your body is telling you to rest, recuperation takes longer. Thus, it is better to miss 1 day off work than missing 2 or 3 days because your body could not recuperate well.

Well i preffer to stay at home when i am seriously sick or having a heavy headache or stomachache as it will bother me all the time if i go out. But if i have a light headache or anything like that then i would definitely go out and do what i do regularly.

If it's just a cough and runny nose I don't stay home because of it. Those can be handled. But if I have a fever and chills and sweating I can't go anywhere. Also if there is pain and fatigue I sometimes can't get myself to go outside. Even going to the doctor is a challenge, I can't really see myself getting anything done in that state anyway. It's better to rest it out than torture yourself for nothing and not get anything done anyways because you feel so bad.

Hello Anetteh! I understand your situation because I also experience that. For me if I can still manage to walk and do my work accurately and effectively then I opt to go to work so that my students won't miss any lessons for that day. But if Im experiencing runny nose, bad cold and cough I'd rather stay at home and take a rest so that the virus won't spread anymore to my students and colleagues and I can regain my strength.

Dear friend, I would stay at home, rest and make my self healthy so that the next days I may not take leave. I feel staying rest for that day would save our health and leave for coming days.

if it is possible then why not. a day of rest and drink a lot of liquids can make you better on the next day. if you will take a whole day rest it will make you get recharged, just like a cellphone har har har. so it is better to take a day rest and be back to work again tomorrow. that is if you are allowed to do so, i guess you can not work properly even you like to go to work.

Hi, When I am sick, I will opt to stay at home and have a good rest. Of course, if just a normal sickness like flu,cough,slight fever, I am still able to carry on with my daily activities. If the condition is getting worse, I will quickly rush to doctor for medication and will rest at home till I am fully recovered.

I'd stay home if i could. Rest is usually the key to faster recovery but most of the time there's too much work and i'll be flooded if i skip a day.

I have a great job and it comes with great benefits. I have 40 days paid sick leave (about 3 days every month), so money is not really going to be an issue. Whenever I feel really sick, I just tell my boss and then go back to bed. I would also call my doctor. I rarely get sick, so I wouldn't risk going to work especially if I feel like I've been hit BY a car.

Not feeling well also needs to rest, even if you feel you're okay you also need to take a rest and take medications for a fast recovery and you can go back to work immediately.Don't be to stressful to work to avoid sickness.