I’m hoping to get some perspective on this. A lot of people are coming into work with the cold/flu. I (obviously) really don’t want to get sick and bring it home so I have a bottle of had sanitizer. I’ve been reapplying after any interaction with a person. Do you think is comes off as rude? I don’t want to seem passive aggressive - I genuinely just don’t want to get sick.

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It shouldn't come off as rude at all. If anyone feels rude, it should be the people coming to work when they know they're sick. Not that I necessarily blame them or anything - I don't want to waste my PTO just because I've got a 99 degree fever either - but still.

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That's not rude at all. It sounds like a good idea. I was sick with the flu this year and it was horrendous and I wouldn't blame anyone for doing anything to avoid it. I should have dug out some N95 masks I still have, to be honest. The strain going around is highly contagious, so do all the social distancing you can. I assume I got it through the air.

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It is not rude, but before Covid people were expected to come to work sick. It just back to normal.

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Unlikely they notice the sanitizer. But most cold/flu is airborne, so the sanitizer is doing very little.

N95 if you are serious, or just get on with life.

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Can you just do it at your desk where they can’t see?

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This. I discretely apply hand sanitizer after every single handshake at the office, but never where they can see it

Before Covid, when people came into the office sick and sat in the rows around me, when they left for the day I would take the big can of Lysol I kept at my desks and walked to their desks and those around it to spray them all down. After a few found out I was doing that, others would walk over and ask to borrow the can and spray their cube mates cubicles that were sick also.

I haven’t been back in the office since Covid so I don’t have to worry about it anymore.

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