by MIA FREEDMAN
Baby it’s cold outside. Winter. Sniffles. Coughing. Illness. I have always been a bit germ-phobic but I get particularly snitty (not to be confused with snotty) about it at this time of year. Nobody likes being sick but after you have kids, it becomes a whole new level of punishing.
Not only do your kids not allow you to stay in bed and moan like the poor wounded animal you are, but invariably they catch it. So just when you rejoin the land of the healthy, they crash. And then you have to take MORE time off work to tend to them and make chicken soup. Or make it from a packet.
So.
Sick people. Can I take a moment to send many many virtual germs to whoever came up with the ‘soldier on’ campaign for whatever form of cold and flu medication they were trying to sell. DO NOT SOLDIER ON, PEOPLE. STAND DOWN, SOLDIER & PUT YOUR GERMY WEAPONS AWAY.
At many workplaces and schools, there is a tradition of ‘sickies’. Pretending to be sick so you can have a day off. At Mamamia, we have something I have dubbed “healthies” – where sick people PRETEND to be healthy so they can come to work.
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I wish all work places felt this way about people being sick. I've had jobs where they insisted you stayed home if you were sick and I've had other jobs where unless you were hospitalized, you were made to feel really bad about calling in sick. When you returning, they would "punish" you by piling work up onto your desk, it was awful. Didn't stay long at this place!
Trying not to count down the hours to Monday morning. Wondering if it's a bad thing to want to ditch a job because it's "all too hard" or suck it up. I used to love going to work. Somehow, i've become the person who can do no right, even though I'm approved by the boss in one-on-one meetings but then admonished in groups. I'd happily give my boss what he wanted if only he could communicate clearly exactly what that is... Anyone been there?