The skipping work/social thing is slightly more complicated for me. I work in an open-plan office with a small groups of people in fairly close contact so I can generally assume that whatever I have others will have it before I become very symtomatic so staying home to prevent them catching it isn't going to work. However I will work from home in order to avoid exposing my collegues to my sniffing, coughing, sneezing and generally being mucussy at them.
Working from home is also a good halfway house when I'm well enough to do a few hours of work, but not well enough to face the commute, the office or the lack of convenient duvet.
I try to go in if at all possible if I feel physically and mentally up to it, but if I know I'll just be pitiful I'll stay home. I've no idea how my average of sick days compares to a "normal person", but I feel that for my overall levels of health (i.e. no chronic problems to deal with) I stay the right side of taking the piss.
I also have a "too ill for work = too ill for social" rule, unless either I'm feeling a hell of a lot better or if it's a once-a-year event. I've never had the situation where I've been ill at the same time as a social event I organised, so I don't yet have a rule for that. A couple more for the list...
When I have a cold or other minor illness, I usually:
* Avoiding drinking beer or wine * Make up huge mugs of strange homebrew hot drinks. The current one has honey, ginger, cinnamon, some weird powdered apple drink thing, hot water and a small quantity of butterscotch schnapps (somewhat counterintuitive to the above point, I know). Apparently you can smell it all the way through the house. * Increase the quantity of garlic I use by a factor of 3. * Whine. Sulk.
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Date: 2007-10-18 09:21 pm (UTC)The skipping work/social thing is slightly more complicated for me. I work in an open-plan office with a small groups of people in fairly close contact so I can generally assume that whatever I have others will have it before I become very symtomatic so staying home to prevent them catching it isn't going to work. However I will work from home in order to avoid exposing my collegues to my sniffing, coughing, sneezing and generally being mucussy at them.
Working from home is also a good halfway house when I'm well enough to do a few hours of work, but not well enough to face the commute, the office or the lack of convenient duvet.
I try to go in if at all possible if I feel physically and mentally up to it, but if I know I'll just be pitiful I'll stay home. I've no idea how my average of sick days compares to a "normal person", but I feel that for my overall levels of health (i.e. no chronic problems to deal with) I stay the right side of taking the piss.
I also have a "too ill for work = too ill for social" rule, unless either I'm feeling a hell of a lot better or if it's a once-a-year event. I've never had the situation where I've been ill at the same time as a social event I organised, so I don't yet have a rule for that.
A couple more for the list...
When I have a cold or other minor illness, I usually:
* Avoiding drinking beer or wine
* Make up huge mugs of strange homebrew hot drinks. The current one has honey, ginger, cinnamon, some weird powdered apple drink thing, hot water and a small quantity of butterscotch schnapps (somewhat counterintuitive to the above point, I know). Apparently you can smell it all the way through the house.
* Increase the quantity of garlic I use by a factor of 3.
* Whine. Sulk.