Showing up to your own and others' detriment is almost never the right or good choice.
Sometimes you make it anyways, but that doesn't mean you should have to.
There were a few times, where half the workers were out sick at a job I had. Something like the flu or a cold went and hit a bunch of us, I assume it was transmitted via the air. If we went to work, and got the other half of the staff sick, then there would have been no workers.
A few of us, returned still suffering symptoms once we thought we weren't contagious though.
Admittedly, I'm not sure if I had the same thing as them because including me, only like 4 people lost their voice during that time. I couldn't be loud enough for my job for a week. After a few days, I could get whispers out, but I had a job where I already had trouble being heard without having my voice damaged by sickness, and it was a requirement to communicate. So I was out for a week, I wasn't the only one, and the other workers probably had a hell of a week. I felt a bit bad, but I couldn't do my job in that state. And even if I hadn't lost my voice, I was still sick, likely contagious, I felt like absulute shit. So I called out. Honestly it wasn't till I came back that anyone told me other had been out sick. The managers didn't try and pressure anyone to make it in despite knowing workloads were practically doubled for those who were left.
Admittedly, this was after covid so I might have been just lucky that my time there started after they were far more aware of people needing actually stay home sick. But I'll always be glad that they were reasonable about sick days.
Because I remember being in school and people being less reasonable about them. Like, you had more than like 8 sick days a year and you could fail the grade type of unreasonable. Well, unexcused absences. But I didn't have someone in my house with a car so I ever got to get doctor notes when I was sick. The only time my family considered bringing me to a hospital when I stayed home sick was because I had a fever of 104.? °F I've always had a lower than average body temp, as does the rest of my family, so our fevers start a bit earlier. It's like what 2 degrees above your average is a fever? Uh 98.6 to 100.4 is 1.8 I think. So yeah about 2 degrees reaches a low grade.
I'm usually at 97.4 ish so 104 is 6 degrees above my normal. Lol i can see why my family was worried now. Luckily with a whole lot of medicine my fever fell by like a degree or 2 in a day. I still had a fever for another day I two but I didn't have a severe one for very long.
God's I remember needing to note down my own sick days to keep count so I could pass the year. And I did go in sick more often to school than work. Because I had no way to get excused absences.
Then the covid years apparently school's partially had to ignore excessive absences due to the required time to stay out after having covid was like a week or so. Idk if they marked them as excused or what. But when over half a grade has more sickdays than allowed its kinda hard to just fail them all apparently lmao
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