It's cold outside...
Oct. 29th, 2008 07:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnrI have a cold. On Monday I was very bunged up, with a sore throat and feeling grim. On Tuesday I was snotty, blowing my nose every five minutes. Today I'm a bit less runny-nosed but coughing. I've had a mild headache on and off all week, and I'm knackered.
I don't have a fever and it's certainly not the flu. I get the impression quite a few people would go into work in this state: "it's only a cold". What do you think? [Poll #1287169]
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Date: 2008-10-29 03:03 pm (UTC)This week I have had similar symptoms to you, and strongly considered staying home, but did in the end go in, all stuffed up and runny-nosed, and swallowing decongestant, because I was the only person left to do some essential work. I think if we'd been less thin on the ground, I'd have stayed home. I'm wondering whether to go early today/stay home tomorrow anyway, now we're past the busiest bit of the week (I hope!).
Working from home because you're ill is very frowned on here: I've been explicitly told that if I'm too ill to come in, I should take sick leave and rest as much as possible. Also our remote access is very flakey from my Ubuntu box and I haven't yet managed to get it to work satisfactorily.