to consider another way to spend money on expensive vacations. I don't recall hearing about this sort of thing happening at resorts on land.

but still....those employees will NOT take precious time off when they are ill....and then they get on board and thousands of other folks are trapped on board with them...

I think as a nation we need to start considering ^^^ that when we go out to eat Fast Food (on dry land) as well....and those are not just rich people at stake...

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and deserve to take time off when they are struggling with contagious illness....if not for their sake...for ours...

Because there was no one scheduled to be on the clock except me, I came in one day feeling like absolute dogshit. Stayed only long enough to work the part of my shift that was uncovered, but still managed to cause the spread of the flu to the entire office, because they too were afraid of not coming in.

At that time I was a temp, and afraid if I missed work without being sent home, I'd lose my job. Even later, though, when I became a permanent employee with sick leave, I got lectures on staying at home when I had a cold or the flu.

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can go all over a call center. My company got smart a few years ago and started providing either free or heavily subsidized flu shots, but this year, they did them a bit late for me, I got mine on my own a month earlier.

That's exactly why I don't want to go on a cruise. My sister and her family went on one, and one of my friends went on one. Their description of being on a cruise, even before the sewage, "tropical enchantment in the bathroom" and everything else convinced me that I wouldn't go on a cruise if I was paid to do so.

"Tropical Enchantment" "Bountiful Waves" ...

And the thought of being jammed on one with 4,100 other people sounds like torture.

I prefer to fly to my destination, bike around, take the bus with "the locals," or rent a car. European river cruises appeal to me, Alaska, Nova Scotia, etc... much smaller scale.