“For goodness sake, just go home,” my boss implored. “People are complaining and don’t want to catch your disgusting germs!”
My protests of “it’s just a cold – I don’t feel that bad” fell on deaf ears and I had to admit defeat gracefully rather than being frogmarched out of the newsroom.
While I wasn’t feeling 100%, in my mind I certainly wasn’t poorly enough to justify spending an afternoon under a duvet.
But forget Brexit – nothing seemed to divide my friends, colleagues and random social media posters more than the thorny question of whether you should call in sick with the sniffles.
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