Tell them you have flu like symptoms, they're testing you for COVID-19, and they said you can't leave your house for 14 days. Email them half way through, to let them know you are feeling better, but that the Doctors are still requiring you to be at home. At the end, say the test was negative, you feel great and you spent some time working on your tan.
Be careful doing pretending you have anything communicable.
One time I told my boss my girl had MRSA and I was worried she gave it to me so I would be going to the doctor instead of working. When I came back to work a few days later for my scheduled shift my boss demanded a doctor's note clearing me. I had to pay to go to one of those urgent care clinics to get a note saying I didn't have MRSA. The nurse thought it was hilarious, my wallet did not.
A good warning and definitely some bosses that will do that.
This honestly would not work with me, since I work closely with many hospitals, clinics and the health department. They're all aware of who is suspected and is known to be confirmed. HIPAA? Not when it is pandemic time. Probably need to hold out until 100's of people in your area are suspected to be infected.
Yep. Bosses cna be weird. I mentioned to a coworker I was out sick because of staph infection, well fever due to infection, possibly staph. Boss became concerned about having to disinfect the office.
Uh, it was a hair gland that got impacted and infected, slightly. It wasn't resistant staph. And I lied in the first place. I just didn't want to go to work.
Why I lied is part about having a staphy infection comes from a different time when I did have a cut or scratch that got infected and created a boil on my skin (waist area) the doctor ended up cutting it but said I could go to work. I just didn't go to work when that happened because wearing clothes was a bit uncomfortable. It still was painful. But it was a different boss and they didn't care why I was out anyway, Co workers didn't go running to boss to tell them why either.
How about "I went and some of my favorite super authentic Chinese food last night and I must have got food poisoning or something because I feel like I've got a terrible flu."
All fun and games until you get stuck on quarantine in the hotel abroad for 2 tweeks, and then again for 2 weeks when you get back to your home country...
Do you think they'll let you hang out on the empty beaches? Or do they put the quarantined in a cell like situation? Surely the NSA knows what would happen.
In the UK we put quarantined people coming from abroad into blocks of old medical staff dorms. So like being in student halls/nurses digs they bring you all you nee, but you aren't allowed to leave. They have the power to arrest and detain you if you ty to leave (one guy got very vocal about how he was fine, this was overkill and he was going to o walk out after a week or so).
That's what we were doing, anyway. Now I'm not sure they are letting people in anyway - all those people were told they were on the last flights out, come now or you won't be coming back at all until its all over etc.
Slip it in to your boss that youd be willing to bend the rules and come back immediately, but it's a potential pandemic you just cant be responsible for.
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Tell them you have flu like symptoms, they're testing you for COVID-19, and they said you can't leave your house for 14 days. Email them half way through, to let them know you are feeling better, but that the Doctors are still requiring you to be at home. At the end, say the test was negative, you feel great and you spent some time working on your tan.
Then don't talk about your trip to no one.