I am glad you are taking hour asthma medicine and doing what you can. It is hard to concentrate. I've been finding it hard to concentrate too. My team leader is really good but I don't think she understood when she'd ask how things are going in our morning meetings (ust before we went into full lockdown) & I'd say I was having a hard time concentrating with everything going on. I was relieved when we did go into lock-down because it was one less unknown that was distracting me.
I still get easily distracted but I am trying to get better at focusing since I've gotten more accustomed to the new norm.
I agree with you about people coming into work sick. I am very very lucky to work where I have paid sick leave, but even then have in the past been in the position of being told that I had "too much" paid sick leave (even though it was genuine --it was a bad year for me and I had dr notes) & that there was the chance I'd not be paid for any more. That led to me (and some other people) coming in sick and leaving it to the last possible "can barely move" symptoms before taking time off sick.
I hope this makes at least some employers & some people consider staying home when they are sick. I know that in my own area about early Feb, before we had our 1st case & all this went sideways, one of the people in the team next to me came in when she wasn't feeling well. She isn't under my team leader but is under our team leader's manager. I overheard our manager telling her if she wasn't well she should go home. My team leader is pregnant & has really bad asthma. I couldn't hear clearly but the colleague was trying to say she didn't feel that bad, had work to do, that kind of thing. Our manager was insistent that she take her device home and work from home if she felt well enough to work and had stuff to do but that basically it was not ok that she was in the office if she didn't feel well. It made me feel good to know that she was looking after all of us.
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Date: 2020-04-04 12:53 am (UTC)I still get easily distracted but I am trying to get better at focusing since I've gotten more accustomed to the new norm.
I agree with you about people coming into work sick. I am very very lucky to work where I have paid sick leave, but even then have in the past been in the position of being told that I had "too much" paid sick leave (even though it was genuine --it was a bad year for me and I had dr notes) & that there was the chance I'd not be paid for any more. That led to me (and some other people) coming in sick and leaving it to the last possible "can barely move" symptoms before taking time off sick.
I hope this makes at least some employers & some people consider staying home when they are sick. I know that in my own area about early Feb, before we had our 1st case & all this went sideways, one of the people in the team next to me came in when she wasn't feeling well. She isn't under my team leader but is under our team leader's manager. I overheard our manager telling her if she wasn't well she should go home. My team leader is pregnant & has really bad asthma. I couldn't hear clearly but the colleague was trying to say she didn't feel that bad, had work to do, that kind of thing. Our manager was insistent that she take her device home and work from home if she felt well enough to work and had stuff to do but that basically it was not ok that she was in the office if she didn't feel well. It made me feel good to know that she was looking after all of us.
Hugs. Take care.