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Regardless of how long you've worked there, if you're ill, you're ill. Adding my voice to the chorus saying stay home and get better! Xx2
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Yes, bed is the place @KajiKita. You'll take so much longer to recover if you go in! Chloe can nurse you. Love Humdinger xx2
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I'm agreeing with everyone else you need to stay home and recover 🤗
Wishing you a full and speedy recovery.Fashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
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Totally agree with the others. No one should be sharing germs in the workplace!Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!3 -
Hope you are feeling much better today definitely a day for snuggling up with Chloe x1
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Mr M hopes that you are cuddled up with Chloe 🤗

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@f0xh0les, not sure if it’s Covid but it’s definitely my boss’s bug! @greenbee, don’t see any point doing a Covid test, after all you can’t isolate etc any more. The advice in most employment settings is if you feel too ill stay home, otherwise come in. 🤷♀️
Thanks @Brewerspride, @beanielou (and Mr M ❤️), @PennysIntoPounds, @Cheery_Daff, @Humdinger1, @Baileys_Babe, @Watty1 😊
I went into work briefly this morning - my boss took one look at / listen to me, and said ‘You’ve got my bug!’ He told me to go home. Everyone else backed away from me - fair enough! I sound like an old ghost ship wind harp and I’m pale like a ghost. 😉 I prepped for and chaired the one critical meeting and then did go home with my laptop. I was home by 9.30am. I should be writing up minutes, but my head is mush! 😉 They can wait. Monitoring emails and letting myself off the rest. One (very small, but important to me) reason for going in - the two younglings in the front sales office were setting up the Christmas tree in reception this morning, in Christmas jumpers and with Christmas Muzak going full bore - I stopped and said well done and smiled. They really appreciated that as *everyone* else was grinching at them … 🤷♀️
I think I might be recovering a little bit - the hot and cold spells are becoming less intense. But my guts are an accident waiting to overcome me! 😳 TBH, my criteria for returning to work will be less about the cough and fever and more about having stable guts!Chloe came in soaking wet, and I mean utterly saturated! when I got home. Demanded food. Went out. Tried to come back in with a corpse - I dissuaded her! Came back in again, demanded more food, went to sleep on Mr KK’s bed. Demanded more food when I made myself a little lunch (I’ve eaten so little over the weekend I’m really not sure what it is my body is ejecting any more! 😳) and THEN, finally sat on me whilst I finished watching the Japan version of civilisations on eye-player (really good series - I’ve binged the whole lot over this weekend).
Of course, as soon as I took this, I sneezed (it’s jet force atm) which was a complete affront to feline dignity, and she has gone out again in utter disgust! 😉😂❤️
I won’t be going back to work tomorrow. I don’t need to. Even if I feel well enough to do something, I can do it from here.
KKAs at 15.11.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £228,473
- OPs to mortgage = £12,822 Estd. interest saved = £6,166 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 77 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 13th December
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Get well soon ❤️🩹Emergency Fund- £717.772
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Do get well soon. I wish people would isolate because someone gave it to me at the end of September (before my jab was due) & I am still not right as it turned into a bad chest infection needing more antibios as the last lot didn't work. 5 days is never enough. I am sure it was the dentists yet again.2
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People aren’t allowed to or are supported in doing so. Sick pay (beyond statutory) is entirely at our GM’s discretion. Shop floor people are generally excluded unless it’s something very long term such as cancer 🤷♀️😢badmemory said:Do get well soon. I wish people would isolate because someone gave it to me at the end of September (before my jab was due) & I am still not right as it turned into a bad chest infection needing more antibios as the last lot didn't work. 5 days is never enough. I am sure it was the dentists yet again.
KKAs at 15.11.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £228,473
- OPs to mortgage = £12,822 Estd. interest saved = £6,166 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 77 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 13th December
Produce tracker: £447 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.4
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