Tuesday - Man Flu

It's that time of year again. We have casualties across the office, lost to the latest bug to hit the building.

I look forward reading the self-certification notices when the staff return. It's always a viral infection or flu, never a cold. A cold just sounds as if you need to put on another layer of clothing, but the fact is, unless you're immobile for a week, it's a cold.

Of course I've been struggling in work with my own 'flu' this week, but I'm a team leader and I have to set an example and so I have to face down the calls from the team for me to go home because 'I'm spreading my germs,'

"I'm past the infectious stage," I told the team, knowingly quoting from my HR absence management course and then spluttering into my coffee.