I’ve had bosses like that too, but often had the ability to work from home with a company lap top and secure VPN.
I was working a part time job at a store I will call “We Be Toys” and “Babies We Have” and went to work sick but got progressively sicker and sicker as the day went on. I was sneezing up a storm and coughing and my nose was running like a faucet. I used hand sanitizer before I handled any costumer merchandise or money or CC, in between every customer, but some of them looked at me like I had the plague, not that I could blame them.
One customer got so upset that I was sick, she went and found a manger to complain about me to, not that she was concerned about me.
The manager came over and yelled at me for scaring the customers. I reminded him that I had called before my shift started and told him I was sick but that he had told me there was no one to cover for me and to get my a$$ to work lest I be written up or fired.
He let me go home early but not before telling me I had to do a spot cleaning of the restrooms. B@stard!
Retail is a demonic beast of its own. I worked retail all through college and until I got my first degree specific job. Unless you are puking on the sales counter, they want you there. Makes no sense.