How to avoid getting sick when everyone at work is sick
Working while constantly surrounded by sick students and teachers makes it easy to catch every bug that goes around. This leaves people with weak immune systems searching for remedies and elixirs to avoid falling ill on the job.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Trying to delegate tasks to existing employees
- 2Attempting to continue working through severe illness
- 3Putting the business into hibernation or slow mode
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I'm suffering from severe depression and almost completely unable to work. My business depends on me.”source ↗
“I will be hospitalized.”source ↗
“Today after lunch I started feeling lousy. There are 5 teachers out sick and a bunch of students.”source ↗
“I was curious if you have a go-to elixir, powder, or what have you that helps your immune system? Mine is not very good, unfortunately.”source ↗
“There are certain things I need to do in my business no one else can - and that's the main issue.”source ↗
“This is my only source of income. Without it I am homeless.”source ↗
Where this came up
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