I just have to VENT!!!

validated.

I will agree. And it's the same with working with people that come to work that way and expect that no one else will get their shit.

I would be livid, too!

I hate this! Stay home.

My kids are in HS and older, so it has been a long time since we had the flu, but my friends have young kids in elementary school. If I interact with their kids, I always ask how they are. And if one is sick, I tell them to stay away!!! When my kids were sick, we stayed home. And DH and I would not be social until the appropriate time had passed to see if we would get it or not. It is just gross and nasty.

I think a lot of the sickness with a toddler is also food poisoning/viruses spread through bad hygiene--it's hard to not spread poo everywhere when you're changing diapers all the time, potty training, multitasking with your baby into everything.

And some people's cooking hygiene is worse than their day to day hygiene--not wiping down counters, letting baby play with all the dishes and not rewashing them, etc.

When I was helping out at my BIL's church, my dh put his foot down and told his brother I was no longer helping in the nursery. I kept getting so sick every week I worked the nursery. 

I really try to stay away from sick people. It really bothers me and dh when his family is sick and doesn't tell us because they're afraid we'll cancel. We even had a friend die of the heart infection I'm at high risk for--and they were trying to talk us out of getting the flu shot! ( a friend collapsed a few days after his--he was diabetic, morbidly obese, not compliant with his treatment-- but hey, it was that nasty flu shot!)

What selfish behavior on the part of the sick family! Its too bad it wasn't noticed immediately and the hostess could have asked them to please leave. I don't understand people showing up sick and contagious to expose others. And then mentioning casually that one of their germ-laden kids had vomited and had diahrrea. Especially AFTER you ate their dish. Ugh.

I found that happening at my last job all the time. The sick person acted like such a martyr and would tell anyone that would listen how they willingly sacrificed themselves to get a job out. Fine, if you really need to keep up because of a deadline, just do so from home! I have packaged files to be taken by courier to bosses' homes when they were sick. They had the courtesy to keep the germs away from the rest of us.

I worked at one place where a project manager came to work really sick. Same thing, he was sooo important that he just had to do this stuff himself. When he was called on by a few angry coworkers for bringing germs to work, he said it was just allergies and not contagious. And anyway, It hadn't occurred to him to ask one of us to send the files to him so he could work from home. His office was across the hall diagonally from mine and he coughed, snorted, and said that he thought he had a fever. Just wonderful.

That one guy resulted in 9 people in our small department, myself being one of them, coming down with the same thing that kept us out for about a week each, and required us all to make doctor appointments to get antibiotics when he was finally told what he had and had passed on to us was Strep throat. Jerk.

Because of that one guy impacting the work product by infecting so many of us, the company started a policy that if you were sick, you stayed home. If you needed files sent to you, someone would make sure they got to you. Everyone had company laptops to work on and we had a data exchange site for employees and clients. Or, if needed, a courier service to bring hard copy. No excuse to expose others. And if you returned early, you had to have a doctor's release, showing you had been on antibiotics for a few days.

I would let that family know that they spread their illness and that you do't appreciate it. Although, if they are the type to do this, they would probably feel no guilt and not learn from the event. I'm sorry you were exposed.

Ugh! So inconsiderate  

We were supposed to go out for dinner with MIL tonight but dd#2 is not feeling well and there is no way I want Nana to catch what she has so we are postponing it ... 

I'm a teacher (on leave) and ended up catching pneumonia from a student because her Mum kept sending her to school  

Some people are just idiots  

That is the worst. I hate when people do that.

Totally rude and inconsiderate! This is my one pet peeve!!

I completely understand and sympathize with you being ticked and this is also one of my biggest pet peeves.

I hate when people send their sick children to school or to gatherings. When my oldest was in preschool, there was a mom, who couldn't stand taking care of her only child and the preschool was her babysitter. She continually sent him to school sick. And all of the kids and their families came down with whatever he had. One time, she actually sent the kid to school with 103 degree fever and some virus; because she wanted him to be in the school picture. My oldest got it for over a week and then my infant. I was so ticked! 

It got to the point that that my pediatrician jokingly asked me if my DH thought we were having an affair. To which I replied "No, but he wants to know if our kids are ever going to be healthy and if we will ever be able to sleep through the night again."