Being Sick

Several of my blogging colleagues have written about the flu and going to work sick.  You can read a couple of them here and here.  But, that’s not the focus of today’s post.  I’d like to think any reasonably intelligent human being understands if they’re sick and/or contagious, they should not go to work.  No matter what time of year.  It just seems logical.

So when I hear reports of people going to work and coughing / hacking / sneezing / wheezing all over their co-workers and office surroundings…I think, something is terribly wrong.  The question is…what is it?  Why would people subject themselves to being at work when they’re miserable (and make everyone around them miserable)?  So far, I’ve only come up with two reasons:

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