Sick of Ill Workers

If anyone with sniffles, tissue boxes and medication dares to show up in our office, he/she is immediately sent home. Our group does not care if “their job is their identity” or they are “people who love their job” or have “money or a family situation” when our employees are sick (flu mainly). The rest of us who are healthy do not want the sick ones around. We will not tolerate downplaying or denial and collectively we put so much pressure on the sick one that he/she is glad to go home and rest in bed.

The people you mention in the article, actress Sherri Stoner and public relations executive John Weir, would not be permitted in our workplace. Stoner’s acting group should be aware that there are such things as understudies. Weir should be better organized so that in case he is sick, someone else can work for him.

GLORIA FILASTRE

Huntington Beach