When to go back to work?

[cjsmith]

If you have a cold and you feel not-100%-rotten but not-100%-healthy, when do you decide it's time to go back to work?

I'd been thinking that as soon as I don't have a fever any more, it's reasonable to go back. 99.6 this morning, so by that standard I'm still home.

Rob saw his doctor this morning & randomly asked about "the cold with a lot of coughing" that's going around. The doctor said "Yeah, I've had that for two months."

Comments

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

After one or at most two days off, because I don't have enough sick days to cover any more than that since I get sick every month and a half like clockwork. :-(

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh yuck! (Me, I get sick every two years like clockwork, and it lasts a month or more.)

Most places I've worked have been somewhat flexible about sick days. They'd rather have me work at home (even if I'm not as productive) than infect the whole office.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Yeah...unfortunately I don't have the option of working from home because I have to be available on my desk phone. What sucks is, the frequent illnesses have only been since I started the job.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh that's no good. Icky stressful job, perhaps? Or is something vilely unhealthful floating around in the air at your office?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I reckon it's probably not so much that the job is stressful as that having anything taking up so much more of my energy than I'd been used to is hard on my immune system. I still haven't quite adjusted to waking up before 10 every day.