You give me fever

What annoys me about staying home sick, aside from the symptom list, is that being too sick to work is also too sick to do anything even remotely amusing. Also, we've lost the thermometer at some point, so while I know I'm feverish, I have no solid data on *how* feverish. But while I used to work through everything up to and including pneumonia, I tackle this stuff proactively now so I don't infect the people I work with. Amazing what  miracles can happen when you 1. have time off 2. are encouraged to use it.

I still feel a little like a slacker calling in, but after a few years at this place I know that it's my own damage talking. I can say that it's both mentally and physically one of the healthiest places I've ever worked, exactly because of this attitude of "stay home, get better, you're not doing us any favors coming in" that's backed by leadership modeling that same behavior. So you don't look dedicated dragging yourself through your tasks looking like crap, you look inconsiderate and your boss looks like they can't manage since they can't arrange coverage. And lo, we don't experience the same vector effect where you can trace a virus through the organization--we get clusters, two or three in a row, but rarely.

Normally when my head hurts like this I apply ice, but even the thought makes me shiver more. Ugh.