There are different reasons people have for retiring, but one big reason is, IMO that is, when a co-worker comes to work with a "contagious" type sickness. Yes, spending 8 hours a day in an office area with a young lady that has a Viral Throat Infection can't be good. "Viral" means it's a virus that can be spread. Her doctor told her what she had, but apparently didn't tell her to stay at home for a day or two. I wonder about this doctor also. Anyway, wife calls me from work yesterday and told me about the girl. The girl isn't acting really sick, but still. Concerned about her health, my wife told the supervisor about the girl. The supervisor said "ok" and that was it. First thing my wife done when she got home last night was take a cold pill. She said her throat felt scratchy. I ended up sucking a throat lozenge. This morning we both seen to be fine. BTW, we both had our flu shots. So, let's see, who's to blame for this "health hazard" thing........the girl for going to work, her doctor for letting her or the supervisor for not sending her home? Yes, another reason for retiring.........not having to be around a sick/contagious person at work for 8 hours!
Another good thing to do, but only works when you first notice symptoms, is the swab-like Zicam because it has zinc in it (it must be the nose-swab kind). But even that will not cure it, only lessen it's length to 3 days. So is your wife going to retire?
@Cody Fousnaugh it's very annoying if you have to work closely with someone who has a viral infection...but then we can catch infections like that just by commuting, holding onto a handrail someone who is infected on the tube or the train, you don't always have to spend much time in anyone's company for long necessarily ...not a lot we can do about it unless we're already taking as much care of ourselves as possible to try and ensure our immune systems are as strong as they can be... if the girl was very sick, and by your wife's own admission, she really wasn't displaying any kind of sickness , apart from a sore throat.. she clearly didn't feel she was ill enough to take a any time off work...or if indeed her doctor even thought she was ill enough not to go to work. Would she have got paid if she'd taken some sick time..?..sometimes people just can't afford to take the time off, and everyone else suffers...yes I agree definitely not fair , on everyone!!
No, she isn't going to retire, but definitely lets me know when someone at work tells her and others when they have a sickness. One lady came to work last month coughing like mad and told everyone she had some pneumonia. Supervisor didn't make her leave, but she didn't come back for the rest of the week (3 days). My question was "why did she come to work on the first place and spread her germs around?? She had Sick Days on the books.
Holly, the girl's doctor told her that she had Viral Throat Infection, of which I just read online......"accompany the flu or a cold. The virus involved with this is highly contagious." I was told by my doctor that getting a Senior "Double Dose" Flu Shot and Pneumonia Shot does not stop a person from getting the flu or pneumonia. The shots, however, are highly recommended, as a preventive measure from getting either. Yes, a person can get this virus from anywhere, but when people have to sit in an office for 8 hours with someone who has this virus, it has to be easier to get it. The girl was with the company before my wife started, so it would seem likely that she would have sick days on the books. Some years ago, my wife worked for a company, thru a Temp Agency. She had medical insurance with the Agency, but no Sick Days. She got a fairly bad cold, took OTC cold medication (almost the entire box) and had to go to work. Everyone in the office could see that she had a bad cold, but the Supervisor never talked to her/ask her to leave. Nobody in the office complained about her cough, but I think the younger generation doesn't care. Heck, they will walk in the rain without an umbrella and go outside in shorts when the temp is 50 degrees! We see it here all the time. Wife and I just wish that those employee's who have Sick Days on the books would use them when they are sick.
I hear you Cody…sheesh…some people. I worked in at a hospital and we didn't even get "sick leave". We weren't allowed to stay home when sick either or we would receive a disciplinary action (if it was snowing and we didn't show up we'd just get fired). If we had a doctor's note requesting time off for us then that was granted but still had to use our own PDO for that. No one wanted to use their PDO because you get those hours earned paid back to you if you don't use them. So it just encouraged sick people to come to work.
That's just an old wives take Cody, you don't get sick being outside in shorts in 50 degrees. My grandson wears shorts to school all year and some mornings it's colder than that in the winter. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/25/cold-wet-hair-germs_n_6739144.html
Companies that care provide free health cards to their employees. And an added protection is to disallow a sick employee from coming to work when there is the probability of spreading a communicable disease. We have no cases like that now but my father-in-law once told us of an anecdote when he had contracted TB sometime in the 1960s. It's fortunate that there was already a cure for tuberculosis at the time when he was confined. And their company - Manila Times, the largest newspaper in circulation - gave him another 60 days of rest after being released from the hospital. The free vacation with pay is not really for his recovery but more for not spreading the disease.
Companies that care ? Companies that care about money, or money, or money ? Or more money ? A local jail (or prison) had sick people every day, average three to five per day, for years. What can they do ? It's not like they can let the inmates "go home"! They are already "home" for the duration of their term. Stay tuned (or not) for "more of the story"... what they did do.