As I came in to work this morning, right before 8:00 AM, my coworker H poked his head around the cubicle wall and said, "No R today, he's seeing a doctor."
Surprised and a bit concerned I inquired further, and found out that R sent H a text Sunday night (they're friends outside of work) to let H know he has a bad eye infection and will be in on Wednesday at the earliest, and that's if the doctor gives him effective antibiotics.
Ah well. There's only four of us on the Level 2 Tech Support team, so we did just lose 25% of the active members, but a regular Monday is nothing the three of us can't handle.
At 8:30, half an hour before the most recent addition to our team, U, is supposed to arrive, he calls in sick. Very high fever. U hardly ever stays home sick, so it's a fair assumption this is perfectly legit, just with very bad timing. H and I exchange a look, and play rock-paper-scissors on who gets to move their lunch to an hour later, before we go ask our supervisor if someone can help out with the tech support calls at least over the lunch breaks.
By 9:30 AM the hard drive in H's work computer makes several loud clicking noises, and then it dies. When he clocked out at 4:00 PM it still hadn't been replaced.
It's going to be a long week.
