How Sick Do You Let Yourself Get Before Taking Time Off?
This season more than any in recent memory, coming to work while sick is nothing to sneeze at.
With the spread of the H1N1 virus, we’re seeing doctor’s offices with masks for those in the waiting area, public transit stations equipped with anti-bacterial gel and public health warnings against showing up at the office while ill.
And this week we learned that Akerman Senterfitt isn’t forcing employees to take leave time if they need to be away from the office because of the flu.
This made us wonder how far you regularly push yourself when you have the sniffles and your body temp rises.
So tell us…
How sick do you have to be before you’ll take a day or two off work to recuperate? Do you stick it out unless you have a fever or worse? Or are your feet up with the first aches and pains?
And what, if anything, is your office doing to prevent the spread of the flu.
Answer in the comments below.
Read answers to last week’s question: What’s the Weirdest Evidence You’ve Seen Presented in Court?
Featured Answers:
Posted by Elizabeth, “In my criminal procedure class, the professor would take out a photo from one of his cases as a prosecutor - the victim had been shot and had written in his own blood, on the hood of the car, who did it.”
Posted by Rich Leng, “In a criminal perjury trial, the elderly defense attorney sought to introduce a picture of himself taken in WWII aboard ship, shirtless, holding a sextant. When asked the relevancy, he replied ‘It shows what a good looking guy I was.’ The exhibit was admitted without objection. His client was convicted.”
