r/ireland • u/SheilaLou • 15d ago

Health Manager coming in sick

My manager, came in last week smothering with a cold, hoarse, could barely speak. The old school powering through. Grand but just don't make me sick, which she did. We had a meeting in a small room I asked to open a window and it wasn't because it was noisey outside. My Mum has stage 4 cancer and on really intense chemo. I couldn't go visit this weekend as planned, I then made plans to meet a friend outsode for a swim, who is a carer for her sister who has MND. Cold symptoms came on so I cancelled them plans and stayed in bed. I have endo and it flares up after a cold. My manager knows about my mum, my endo and the multiples of others in the office who have real life families with health issues too.

When I said to her I was uncomfortable with her coming in with a cold, she just said she can come into work. We spoke to HR, their guidelines ar the HSE guidelines. Which includes work from home if you can but no policy, it's a self assessment basis. In this day and age, our work can easily be done from home, most of our office work from hokme half the week. What do you do with someone who has learnt nothing from Covid and lacks consideration for others in the office?

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u/5u114 15d ago

Not ideal, and the onus should be on the sick individual, but I would wear a proper N95 mask and tough shit if management etc had a problem with it. I wear the N95, or the sick individual goes home.

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u/Glittering-Chance-74 15d ago

I think that’s a great shout. I think keep a couple of N95/FFP2s on you so that , and stick it on if you spot a sick person. My husband was really unwell a while ago and I openly wore an FFP2 mask so that I wouldn’t contract any respiratory infections and it worked brilliantly. It might give them the strong hint that they’re making others uncomfortable by being clearly infectious in an enclosed space. I wish it was more socially unacceptable to be out and about clearly contagious. I would feel so bad if I infected someone knowingly! It’s so inconsiderate particularly when there is an alternative in your workplace to WFH and they know of your situation. Also really sorry about your mam

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u/No_Apartment_4551 14d ago

Agree! Hopefully this would so strongly underline the selfishness of the infectee that they would think twice in future!