> Also a good way to ensure sick people heroically come to work and infect everyone else. There will always be people who'll do that, some out of sheer disrega

> Also a good way to ensure sick people heroically come to work and infect everyone else. There will always be people who'll do that, some out of sheer disregard for others and feelings of being a superhero by not letting a "little" thing like a 'flu stop them, but there are some really bad employers out there who discourage sick days through bad planning and poor decisions. I just worked two days with someone who has a 'flu bad enough that he has a fever. He shouldn't have been there because he's infectious, and something of a hazard to himself. The only reason he came in is because the employer refuses to train backup staff, and holds each of us responsible for our jobs to the point of stupidity. (What do I mean by that? Old equipment fails, it's marked on the sheet as "operator error." Last week, a script generated incorrect job numbers and we had to restart production well into the run as a result of it - that wasn't accepted by management as an error, because it would never happen. Stupidity on the order of "that printout attached isn't proof of it, it comes from a printer and anybody can do that.")