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Ok... my whole office is sick.

And I mean, my WHOLE office.  My boss is sick.  My 3 team members are sick.  People in the next two rows of cubes are sick.  Almost deathly ill as far as I'm concerned.  All I hear is constant hacking (with serious chest congestion sounds mixed in) and at least one good, loud, *SNUCK* of inhaled snot every 30 seconds or so.

It's driving me crazy - it's been this way all week.  At least one of the people was like this LAST week before I left for Daytona on Wednesday.  I don't understand why people are coughing and hacking and are STILL SHOWING UP TO WORK.  Sheesh people - GO HOME, GET BETTER, and QUIT SPREADING IT AROUND!!!

I'm going to wind up calling in "healthy" and staying home the rest of the week so I *don't* get sick!!!

I'm not sick. Haven't been for over 4 years. No colds, no flu, no bronchitis. Eat right, excercise, get enough sleep and ferpetesake, wash your hands!

I'd call in healthy if I were you. I used to work at a place where I got sick alot. It was a chemical plant, and guess what? I'm chemical sensitive. That, and the boss kept coming in sick. Gee thanks. I got fired. The best thing to ever happen to my health. ;) ;D

I feel for you mang. Man that crap gets on my nerves. I was complaining about this same damn thing a month or so ago.

I'm not sick either....   ;D

Aww crap, hey Jim I think the Winghouse made me sick...or maybe just coming home to this lousy weather.

Quoteferpetesake, wash your hands!

You speak da trut woman!!

VERY few people wash their hands, much less wash them often enough.  On top of that, most people don't wash their hands properly!

You have to generate a lather.  At that point start the count.  ANd ya gotta wash the back of your hands too!  Most people I see washing their hands practically rinse the soap out of their hands as soon as they squirt it in their hands.

We'll have a lesson on propoer scrub up and asceptic technique later.
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What?  Doesn't everyone perform a 15 minute scrub before entering the garage to perform "surgery" on their bike(s)?

Dr. H. is in the hizzzouse!!!

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I actually wash my hands alot dealing with all the well worn leather. Not to mention the adhesives and other products.

I have a thing against these anti-bacterial soaps, though. They are contributing to a wholesale rampant generation of super germs. Regular ordinary soap is more than sufficient when used properly. If you're not sure, hit it with some alcohol. That actually kills the little nasties outright. They have no defense against that form of chem warfare.  ;D

I am NOT sick.  Everyone, and I mean everyone, here at the library is or was sick and everyone at the gym is or was sick.  Those are the only two places I go these days so I can't believe I havent' managed the flu or that terrible sinus crud.  Yuck.

I don't get sick much either.  Last year at RA was the first time in years and I didn't know I was that sick until I got home.  I thought I just lost my voice.  But, I survived!

Heather

I take that back.

I was sick last night during 2 Wheel Tuesday when the best they could come up with during bike week was a story on Aaron Gobert's back pack!!!!!!!!   >:(

Next week, a riveting demonstration with Roger Lee Hayden's shovel.  

Quote Sheesh people - GO HOME, GET BETTER, and QUIT SPREADING IT AROUND!!!

Common sense would dictate that, but ya know if they called in sick when they were fine but just didnt want to work before. It was that way at Geneva Vans when I was tehre. People constantly coming in sick. Our shop fought with it for 2 months one year because some moron wouldnt just stay home when he had the flu.

So far so good for me this year.  I changed my eating habits (more fresh fruit & veggies, less junk) and have been training for triathlons, so hopefully my immune system has been staying pretty strong.  In the fall of last year I was starting to feel a cold coming on, so I took that Airborne stuff and never got full-blown sick.

There was a freaking plague going around the dealer show at Indy.  Most of the people I talked to afterwards were wiped out for 3-5 days, starting 1-2 days after the show.  I got laid out as well, spending Saturday through Wednesday in bed.  Not fun.

It has literally run the gamut of my house.  I'm finally over it (3 weeks), but the wife & kids are still finishing it off.  

It sucked...

Right again Alexa!

Ya know, some folk are also trying to "game" the work system by showing up sick.  If you report to work and get sent home, you're supposed to be paid for the full day as a regular work day not a sick/CTO day.  Calling in would deplete your sick/CTO bank.

I guess it either is backfiring on them or they have managers who are either too scared to send someone home or don't know enough to do so (short of a lung being coughed up).

QuoteThere was a freaking plague going around the dealer show at Indy.  Most of the people I talked to afterwards were wiped out for 3-5 days, starting 1-2 days after the show.  I got laid out as well, spending Saturday through Wednesday in bed.  Not fun.

Ah HA!!! So THAT is where Dan got it from!

He was sick the first few days we were down in Daytona.

QuoteAww crap, hey Jim I think the Winghouse made me sick...or maybe just coming home to this lousy weather.

LOL yeah I'd blame the weather too... but I'm not sick - YET.  Between the weather and this office I figure I'll be down for the count by Friday.

I'm SOOOO freakin sick of this PA weather!!  :'( :( I wanta go back to daytona!!! ;D 8)

Everyone at work as been sick (some of them twice), my girlfriend, my whole family, my teammates and even my mechainc. Oddly enough I haven't gotten the real deal yet, only a sore throat. Normally I would have been the first one sick - I am allergic  to everthing from fruits to sun light to grass and dust, along with the fact that I have a very low white blood cell count which means my immune system can't fight of infection very well. So I have to take five different prescribed medicines each morning and get two allergy shots every Friday. I'm leaving to go to the Kevin Schwantz School @ Road Atlanta this Saturday so i'm hoping I can fight it till then.....

Quote. . .I'm leaving to go to the Kevin Schwantz School @ Road Atlanta this Saturday so i'm hoping I can fight it till then.....

Wow! The Schwantz school?! Have fun and good luck on staying well.

I haven't been sick at all (knock on wood) this year. I also have OCD and wash my hands about 50 times a day. . . followed by some antibacterial hand cleanser. . . and million and one excuses not to shake hands. Did I mention my obsessive
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My teammate took Schwantz School last year and loved it!

QuoteI also have OCD and wash my hands about 50 times a day.

While I won't exactly say I'm an ob-com (maybe that'sjust denial), but I'm like you.  I refer to it as "Lady MacBeth Syndrome."

Even in the warmer months.

I'm not. Thanks for asking.  ;)

(Okay, I was, but I got better.)

No more smoking, no more bronchitis!. Yeah!!

Smoking. Yeah. Just don't do it. My mom used to yell at me cuz I would go outside with my hair all wet. I'd get sick, you know. Well, I did get tonsillitis once or twice a year, almost like clockwork. Did I mention both my parents smoked like feinds?

Well, after I moved out, I stopped getting tosillitis. It was only much later that I understood that being in an environment with no ciggy smoke helped me avoid illness. Oh, and I still go outside with my hair wet, even when it's 15 below zero.

So it's the hippie lifestyle for me. Avoid smoky places like the plague, eat organic whenever possible, and get educated about what really causes illness; more importantly, what boosts immunity and will support wellness.

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QuoteThere was a freaking plague going around the dealer show at Indy.  Most of the people I talked to afterwards were wiped out for 3-5 days, starting 1-2 days after the show.  I got laid out as well, spending Saturday through Wednesday in bed.  Not fun.

I started feeling it on the way back on Monday.  By Tuesday night I was "done".  Fortunately, there is a prescription available (Tamiflu) that will actually fight the virus if you start taking it within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms.  Between that and the prescription cough medicine, I only missed 2-1/2 days of work.