Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 17:42     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
Anonymous wrote:Say you have a mild illness - coughing and congestion. Feel fine to work but obviously don’t want to be in an office setting. Fed and no telework allowed since Trump. Just take sick leave for a week until the cough clears??


Share the wealth like in the old days,obviously.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 17:40     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am the OP. I took sick leave the first two days but cough is lingering and I feel guilty coughing in my cube but I guess that’s what we are doing now? Was wondering how everyone feels about this situation. To be clear, I want to work, I have a lot to do and feel fine otherwise.


Why would you feel guilty about taking sick days? That's what sick leave is for--RTO is irrelevant. You should feel guilty about coming into office and coughing all over the place. No one wants your germs.


I literally said “I feel guilty coughing in my cube”? I think you misunderstood me - we said the same thing.


Then stay home. I really hate it when obviously sick coworkers come in. If you have some sort of life and death job, fine. But if you're a run of the mill office worker, you're not so important that you should be spreading your illness in your office.


Right so back to my question. For how long? What if I am coughing for a week or more?


OP are you an adult? Not sure why you’re crowdsourcing this? Are you feeling poorly or just coughing? Have you seen a doctor? I had a lingering cough last year and went to a nifty professional location called the doctor’s office and got some medicine that got rid of it.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 17:37     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
I would take sick leave for the worst if it, then go in with a mask.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 17:27     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
sick day.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 17:25     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
Depends. If it's just an inconvenience to me and I feel like I can be somewhat comfortable with meds, I go in. If not - if I'm coughing up a lung - I stay home.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 16:50     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
You should go in and make everyone sick. They want feds to quit and this might make them quit.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 16:19     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
Anonymous wrote:I go to work. I’m a teacher with very little sick leave. I have no choice.



Another veteran teacher. Unless you are saving up time for maternity leave or if you have kids, use your sick days. I have well over 100 sick days because I pushed myself for no reason. Now I’m using them but I shouldn’t have forced myself to go into work really sick.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 16:19     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
Anonymous wrote:Say you have a mild illness - coughing and congestion. Feel fine to work but obviously don’t want to be in an office setting. Fed and no telework allowed since Trump. Just take sick leave for a week until the cough clears??


I resigned (fork) but my DH now stays home. Where he and I would’ve simply continued working for all a or part of the day, no longer. Not sorry.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 15:52     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
OP, a related question:

If your child has a cough that last two weeks, would you consider keeping them home from school?
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 15:03     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
Unfortunately, I would or have to go back into the office after a week and just cough my head off for the next few weeks, since that's how long it usually takes me to recover from a head cold.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 14:41     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am the OP. I took sick leave the first two days but cough is lingering and I feel guilty coughing in my cube but I guess that’s what we are doing now? Was wondering how everyone feels about this situation. To be clear, I want to work, I have a lot to do and feel fine otherwise.


Why would you feel guilty about taking sick days? That's what sick leave is for--RTO is irrelevant. You should feel guilty about coming into office and coughing all over the place. No one wants your germs.


I literally said “I feel guilty coughing in my cube”? I think you misunderstood me - we said the same thing.


Then stay home. I really hate it when obviously sick coworkers come in. If you have some sort of life and death job, fine. But if you're a run of the mill office worker, you're not so important that you should be spreading your illness in your office.


Right so back to my question. For how long? What if I am coughing for a week or more?
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 14:39     Subject: Re:So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
I stay home.

I also plan all my doctors appointment appointments around 12 o’clock and take the whole day.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 14:37     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am the OP. I took sick leave the first two days but cough is lingering and I feel guilty coughing in my cube but I guess that’s what we are doing now? Was wondering how everyone feels about this situation. To be clear, I want to work, I have a lot to do and feel fine otherwise.


Why would you feel guilty about taking sick days? That's what sick leave is for--RTO is irrelevant. You should feel guilty about coming into office and coughing all over the place. No one wants your germs.


I literally said “I feel guilty coughing in my cube”? I think you misunderstood me - we said the same thing.


Then stay home. I really hate it when obviously sick coworkers come in. If you have some sort of life and death job, fine. But if you're a run of the mill office worker, you're not so important that you should be spreading your illness in your office.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 13:40     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
I now take sick leave, since I have it.

If I had to ration sick leave I would go to work.

This is one of the reasons I still wear a mask at work-i know a lot of people are sick and don't have the leave to stay home.
Anonymous
Post 08/04/2025 13:39     Subject: So what is everyone doing when you have a head cold and no telework?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am the OP. I took sick leave the first two days but cough is lingering and I feel guilty coughing in my cube but I guess that’s what we are doing now? Was wondering how everyone feels about this situation. To be clear, I want to work, I have a lot to do and feel fine otherwise.


Why would you feel guilty about taking sick days? That's what sick leave is for--RTO is irrelevant. You should feel guilty about coming into office and coughing all over the place. No one wants your germs.


I literally said “I feel guilty coughing in my cube”? I think you misunderstood me - we said the same thing.