sick people are gross

one more reason to support universal healthcare and sick days:

This woman who works in the mailroom at work has been sick for days. Weeks even. Sneezing, runny nose, sore throat, everything. She looks disgusting. She sounds disgusting. I can hardly see how she manages to stand let alone run around the building all day. But of course she has a crappy health plan and no sick days. She should be home in bed getting better. Instead she is running around spreading whatever it is she has to the poor innocent healthy people in my office. I am not going to lie, unless you are a close friend, sick people really fucking gross me out. Fine. I'll admit it. Yes. I discriminate against sick people. Not people with Cancer or any kind of real illness, but the kind of sick people that have to cough up stuff and always end up sneezing all over everything. Just disgusting. I don't want to see them or have anything to do with them.

Jill is one of the few highlights of my day. She always has a smile on her face and nice words to say. But I can't look at her like this. She looks miserable. I am afraid to touch the mail she brings unless it has been sitting there long enough for it to have naturally disinfected, and even then I am convinced it will only lead to impending death. Every time she walks by I hold my breath so I don't accidentlly breathe in anything she breathed out. It is like I can feel my nose getting stuffy and a scratch in my throat when I hear her coming down that hall. I am afraid to talk to her because what if "her germs" manage to pass over the top of the cubical and then they become my germs! I certainly don't want to get what she has.

But at this point in the year if she takes a day off she gets docked pay. And when you don't make that much $ to begin with getting docked pay isn't really an option. I just don't understand these people that run these companies. Don't you want healthy employees so they can work hard for your millions while you sit on your ass drinking Margaritas or something? This is really a human rights issue. I'm not even kidding. Sick people running around getting sicker, spreading germs. If she had that damn bird flu I sure bet they would be on top of it. But what's the difference? Sick is sick. Sure I would rather have a cold than the bird flu (if only because of what people would think), but when you are at the depths of sickness even though you know you wont die of it, sometimes you wish you would. Sick is sick and I'm sorry if they would give you days off for the bird flu they should give you days off for whatever it is that is making her cough up phlegm at an alarming rate and sneeze all over the mail. Disgusting.

But it is clear that these people that run these companies don't give a rats ass about Jill or people resembling anything like Jill. I just don't understand what they don't understand. At the very least everybody has read the articles and heard the studies about corporations losing money because of sick people that come to work. You would think that losing money alone would be enough to get them to send her some chicken soup or something. If you don't care about Jill's well being or mine...fine. You don't owe us anything. You don't care about me, I don't care about you. But my god please give this woman a few days off if for no other reason then she is infecting the entire company!! I bet if they found out they were losing a million dollars a day for every person she has infected they would get her a pretty nice health plan. Maybe even dental?