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Interview + Flu?

  • 08-02-2011 6:22pm
    #1
    sellerbarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭


    Hi all. Went to doc this morning and got a few heavy meds for a bad flu i have. (not man flu). Thing is, this afternoon a company called and have arranged an interview for me for tomorrow at 12. I have been waiting for this interview for ages. Should I just tell them at the interview about my flu or just take lots of meds and say nothing? Thanks all.


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  • #2
    3DataModem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭3DataModem


    My advice: lots of meds and say nothing. In theory life is fair, in practice life's a b1tch.


  • #3
    sellerbarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭sellerbarry


    3DataModem wrote: »
    My advice: lots of meds and say nothing. In theory life is fair, in practice life's a b1tch.
    Thought so. Thanks


  • #4
    threebeards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭threebeards


    I think it will say plenty about your attitude if you turn up while sick. It'll show that a flu isn't going to knock you out. Apologise when you arrive for having a flu but don't allude to it any further. I think it will go in your favour. Good luck with the interview


  • #5
    allgirlz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭allgirlz


    I interviewed for my current job with a nasty bout of laryngitis and they did not mind at all, think it told them a lot about me. Best of luck with the job interview, let them know at the start of the interview that you are sick but considered this too good an opportunity to miss out on!


  • #6
    Mrs OBumble
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    +1 for going, if you're up to it, and telling them at the start that you're sick.

    If you really have influenza, though, you probably won't be able to get out of bed. So maybe just call it a really bad cold, instead of using a scary word like 'flu (that may make them think of swines, and get cross at you for spreading germs to them)


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  • #7
    j4vier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭j4vier


    I'm not sure though that it's all positive

    the flu spreads easily and just by shaking hands with them there s a good chance they ll get it as well

    it all depends wether you pass it on to them i guess!

    still worth goin in my opinion but it could backfire as well


  • #8
    sellerbarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭sellerbarry


    Well, I went to the interview today all medicated up to the hilt. Had a great interview and will be told Monday either way. There's only 4 of us left in the running. Thanks all for the advice...............


  • #9
    1966
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    Best of Luck !!:)


  • #10
    threebeards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭threebeards


    sellerbarry wrote: »
    Well, I went to the interview today all medicated up to the hilt. Had a great interview and will be told Monday either way. There's only 4 of us left in the running. Thanks all for the advice...............

    Fair play. Let us know how you get on


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