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Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:20 pm  |
This really pisses me off. Why do people do this. What are they thinking. They really could care less about getting others sick and spreading it to others.
My inlaws - husbands parents, who I obligatorily had to hang out with and see for 2 days because they came into town to go on some cheesy cruise. Then on their way back from the cruise they set up their flight to have a 7-8 hour delay so they were like, why don't you guys pick us up from the airport so we can hang out before our flight and then drop us back off at the airport.
My husband totally forgot about the day. I did as well. And then they call and call this morning so we had to get up early and rush out to get them. Then as soon as we pick them up and they get in the car, they start coughing and talking about how they have such a bad cold and were in their cabin in bed on the cruise for most of the past 2 days. Can we stop at the store to pick up cold medicine cause he's coughing so much. Gee, thanks. Then they start talking about how everyone's getting this cold, and so and so on the boat was sick too, and their son back home is sick.
So, it's like, come pick us up. We're bored and have a super surprise going away gift we want to give you, instead of waiting a couple hours at the airport to spare you guys of this torturous cold. Not only did they not care it is a work day and we have employees here and work to get done, but they wanted to get our whole office sick. They act as though it's not a contagious thing, or they are not putting you at risk. Are people really that dumb? We introduced them to some to some of the people and the guy was like coughing, oh give me 3 ft distance, I'm sick - cough cough! Like there was any distance in the car right next to them, or like that matters. Ahhh! They could of warned us! |
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Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:33 pm |
....Hehe... I am with you when it comes to people's consideration (or lack of it) when they have a cold, or flu. I tend to think that when people are that sick, whoosy and weak in energy, they feel it's natural for others to sympathise and worse, expect to have relatives to come to their aid at the drop of a hat. It is like they can't reason normally, and the fact that it may be going out of your way or unreasonable doesn't seem to gel.  Unfortunately, being linked by blood, or in your case by marriage, (and I guess it also depends on what backgrounds you're from).. but being 'family' you are obligated to this kind of call. It happens to me all the time, the airport thing. 
But one of my pet hates is people who knowingly bring themselves to work, infecting other people, when they're as sick as a dog. I am not talking about just a sniffle or cold, but a DEATH COUGH and fluey. If you've got a headcold you're hardly going to give 100 percent, let alone 20%. To soldier on when you're that sick is not on when you bring down the people in the area around you !!! I used to cringe everytime someone who looks like death warmed up turns up at work, coughing and wheezing and I try to serreptitiously cover up my face with a tissue (as if that helps with the air borne bacteria floating around)  ...but now I just say half-jokingly-half-seriously "I don't want to get infected. I will seriously get the *beep* if I am knocked down with this flu".
It usually works.  Just be direct, speak up. Silence fails. |
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