Sick People At Work

Ok, so here is the deal; I am a coop student, so I do not have the right to sick days, being days for which I am not at work, but am payed for. The reason sick days were created, was to ensure that people who were actually sick did not come in to work and infect others, or perform work unsafely or improperly due to their sickness.

Since I am not entitled to sick days, I must try my best not to get sick, because a single missed day of work will cost me ~$110 net (after taxes), and I do not want to lose that kind of cash. This means that should I get sick, I will basically stumble in to work anyway, and do crappy work and get everyone else sick. This is understandable, however, since I am a dog and don't have the human right to be sick.

But what about all the people walking around my work hacking away. Why have they come in? Thye have sick days, and this is february, so clearly they have not run out of their sick day quota. Moreover, many of them do not have a daily function that must be performed. For instance, I could understand a secretary coming in sick, because someone needs to do that job every day. But what about the manager? Managing is not required in the same manner, you could catch up on some of it when you got back, or even try to do some from home.

So, many of the people hacking their viral filled phlegm at me, do not need to be at work, they are payed to think and manage, and so could take a day off, or at the very least they could stay in their offices with a gas mask on, and not throw their crap at me.

I would of course feel completely different if I had sick days, because then I would not care so much if I got sick, since I know that I am healthy enough that I would never exceed my sick days, so it would be like a break. Of course, of I was naturally unhealthy, then I would still be angry at all these damned sick people.

So far my friday night with a sick Aimee and sick Natalie, followed the next weekend by a 3 hour drive in the car with a sick Natalie and sick dad, have not resulted in me getting sick (knock on wood), but I feel that it is only a matter of time, and have decided not the trim my nose hairs for the duration of the winter, just so that I have maximum sheilding against airborne infectious materials.