I’m home
sick today ….. THIRD illness in the last 2 months … ugh it
needs to go away! It is really the fault
of people and people like me. You know the “dedicated” ones that go to work
when they are sick!
It
started with one of the other engineer’s in the office trying to negotiate closeouts
with meetings …. Probably with other sickies ……. before the unspoken “holiday
break” ….. I swear NO ONE works in Construction from mid-December to the
beginning of January …… She was in the office coughing, snotting, barely
able to even speak AND she looked absolutely horrible. There was no hiding her
sickie sign indicators. By Friday, I was dizzy, sore throat and feverish late afternoon so I had allll weekend ….. the
week before Christmas yet ….. to stay
home on the couch to recover.
Finally,
I went on my “Christmas break” …. Otherwise
known as using up all my left over vacation days I purposely saved so I could
take off the last 2 weeks of the year ………. I thought I was safe from all the
office germs BUT, I was wrong. Daughters were out there working Christmas retail jobs coming
into contact with … yes you guessed it ….. sickies who came out to shop and infect the
rest of the population! By New Year’s Eve my nose would only stop running with the
help of a box of tissues shoved up it. SIDE NOTE: GOO had that cold spray you spritz in
your mouth that is supposed to ward off the onset of the cold. Daughters tried
it and it worked! Me …. Not so much ……
On my
return to the office January 2nd, I was
getting the “Why don’t you go home?” looks. I just came back from vacation dam
it! …. I'm gonna stay here for a little while. However, the anonymous placement of the “Hazard”
tape across my office door finally made me realize I was not wanted. So I went
home Thursday afternoon not to return till Monday.
I've been
doing good the last 2 weeks and then it happen ……. I could hear it from the
other office: the undeniable sounds of another sickie. Yes, now it was my boss turn
and of course he was working half days last week. Apparently he had a theory that if
you only work half days you do not contaminate as many of your co-workers, hmmmmm ....... maybe I’ll only
be half as sick!!!
