Go and lay on the couch and feel sorry for yourself, dammit!
Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 8:44PM On Tuesday I had a minor vent about our ninja office manager and how trying to keep the workplace running in her absence was virtually impossible.
Can I take that back? Floundering around, appearing like an idiot to clients, and spending an hour tracking down one single work order is INFINITELY preferable to listening to her wheeze and cough and attempt to convince people she isn't contagious.
Seriously - my biggest office pet peeve EVER. If you're sick - keep your disease-ridden carcass at home where it belongs, thankyouveryfuckingmuch. I don't need to quail at the sound of a ringing phone, wondering whether you answered it last and how big of a loogie you hawked up onto the receiver.
Also? If I bring home last month's pig-flu-du-jour because YOU "need to work", I'll be pissed.
I mean, at least make it something with some retro cool appeal, like the bubonic plague, or ergotism.
Or leprosy. Now there's a sexy disease.
I feel all headachey and tickly in my throat now. And my fingers feel perilously close to falling off.
Damn office ninjas.
Reader Comments (29)
Seriously! People think they're being all noble and stuff because they come in even when they don't feel good. Really? Pretty sure NO ONE wants your damn guts all over their shit.
Stay. Home.
I hope I didn't just catch something from reading this....now my eyeballs are twitchy.
I totally agree! Where I work we have canned/filtered/recycled air (why, I don't know...I suspect it is to prevent some sort of terrorist activity, like someone might put a can of anthrax outside our air vents??), plus we share desk spaces (as in you rarely get to sit at the same desk 2 days in a row) and it is my very biggest pet peeve that people come to work and cough and sneeze all over everything so their crappy germs get recycled over and over and make everyone else sick, and think it's okay.
That is followed closely by my 2nd pet peeve, which is people who call in sick when they aren't really, and then talk about their night at the skank bar the next day because they are too stupid to remember they called in sick.
Why, no, I don't have co-worker issues! Why do you ask?
I hate when people work sick. It's the worst thing ever.
Please just stay away. We will survive without you.
I had the same gripe when parents would send their kids to school, and they were obviously miserable. I wasn't as worried about getting sick (being exposed to a million germs daily makes my immune system pretty tough) but those poor kids! We usually ended up making a phone call home because their child was just miserable. We also didn't want the whole class to become infected! I know it's hard for parents to take off from work to stay home with sick kids. I will be in the same boat when my kids start school and I go back to work...I don't have someone to call to stay with my kids all day.
OK, I've rambled on long enough! Hope you don't catch whatever your manager has!
I have allergy induced asthma and its grass season. So, I am coughing and sneezing and generally look like a plague carrier. I love scaring people away. I tell them I am highly contagious, even though I am not. :)
All in your head! ;) Purell is your new best friend.
I hear you dude, that's the worst. We've had kids that bad show up at my kid's preschool too, must be the kids of sick parents who just don't have a fucking clue. You need a Michael Jackson mask, stat.
Follow her around with Clorox wipes. That'll piss her off enoough to at least let her know how you feel. Maybe she'll go home.
As for kids who go to school sick, uhm, some of us truly don't mean to send our kids to school sick. My kid usually feels better after a night sleep and then slowly goes down during the day. It's hard to know if he's still sick. Sorry.
That is the best kind of ninja, the one who incubates before striking.
I'm 100% positive that nobody has ever been upset with me for coming to work sick. I would NEVER do that. If I get an eyelash in my eye - I consider calling in.
I have issues when we get invited to family functions where my SILs kids are ALWAYS sick. Do we get a courtesy call ahead of time politey informing us of said germiness lurking ahead? Hell NO!! I've stopped going to some get togethers in the winter months because I KNOW what's going to happen. BUTTHEAD MORONS!! I hope you don't get sick!!!
then i guess you better go lay down too...
I saw your tweet this morning about the office ninja being in the hospital and I wondered what it was about. So, she was really sick. I hope it isn't like ebola or hepatitis. That would suck. For you.
Sick people should stay home.
The rude, snot nosed folks who go to work should be shot.
Nevermind the fact that they were probably contagious for 24-48 hours before they were snot nosed. And probably already infected the entire office.
I hate people that feel the need to come to the office even when they are obviously ill. Even more, I hate the companies that don't offer sufficient sick leave for their employees when they are sick so they are able to stay home and get well!
I don't get why some people insist on being all "heroic" and infecting the rest of us! Personally, I'm always looking for an excuse to keep my butt on the couch for the day.
It should be mandatory that if you're that sick and hawking up loogies into the phone receiver that other people have to use, you should stay home. Mandatory, I tellya! :)
Ooh... that's one of my pet peeves, too. But then again, I work in a hospital, so it's a no-win situation.
Yeah going into work sick is so not nice. I used to have a co-worker who would never miss work, even if one of her limbs were hanging off of her body. At least we all had private offices and she kept her door closed...but still. Now I work in an office all by myself so no more co-worker drama! Yay. It does however get old talking to myself. :(
Ugh. Hate that too. People really should just STAY HOME if they're sick.
Admittedly, I am really bad when it comes to this. I know it's wrong to come in sick but I usually pay dearly on the work end if I don't come in. Just one day out sick and, things fall apart, the work piles up and things get crazy and out of control. It BLOWS!
So I guess if I get someone sick, it's like payback for making my life a misery if I stay home one frickin' day.
Not good, I know.
Believe it or not, there was just a case of fatal bubonic plague in Mexico! Seriously!
going to work or school sick is very rude. hark! is this is a Canadian i don't like? wow - i didn't think that was possible.
I hate that too... honestly I think some people think it is admirable to work and tough it out when they are sick but it ticks me off and is totally irresponsible!
Really, if your son catches the ninja's pig-plague, you have every right to take a bat to her knee caps. See her try to be stealthy then.