Wow, it's been a tough two weeks

dean1484 wrote: This just killed a friend of mine this summer. His problem was it was summer. Who gets it in the summer. He waited to long to get treatment.

I had a bout of pneumonia this summer. I basically lost July. Not one bit of fun.

turboswede wrote:

wbjones wrote:

turboswede wrote: And what have we learned? if you're sick, stay the berkeley home until you are better. Why do people insist on trying to work through being sick? The world will not end if you're not there and if it does?

because you end up getting "gigged" by HR … regardless of how sick you are … even up to and including being in the hospital …. where I worked, you earned sick days … but if you had the audacity to use them, you could find yourself out on the street … this of course was to encourage the use of vac. days instead of sick days … which, of course, meant you had fewer vac. days for later in the yr

That's where knowing the labor laws in your state is important because that is BS and many HR people are dumped there because they've failed everywhere else. Use their ignorance against them, but please don't make your coworkers sick because you're afraid of getting fired.

keep in mind that NC is a right to work state … BUT is also a right to fire state … no reason need be given

now if you are denied unemployment, and try to fight, then the co. would have to provide some reason(s) for why they let you go

and I was like Wally is … I went to work …. regardless of how I felt

if you don't count the heart surgery, and the car crash, then I missed 2 days of work since 1987 … until the end that is … I used up quite a few sick days the last 2 mo. before I retired (sorta standard practice at that plant … you didn't get paid for unused sick days)

Ian F wrote: In reply to Wally: Great... so a dreary and drugged up bus driver is considered a good thing...

I have been on the sick abuse list for 7 years since I was out after a car accident in 2006. We accrue 12 day a year, and I used all 70 days I had. That put me on the list even though I had only take 3 days in the 6 years leading up to it, and since I've only taken 4 days since, 3 of which were unpaid I should come off the list in about 2017.

The goal is to not pay us as often as possible, then have us die before we can retire. They are pretty good at it too. Of those that make it to retirement most die within two years from either a heart problem or some sort of cancer.

Wow, feel better.

When I broke my back and was on all sorts of pain meds, I had all sorts of really screwy dreams.

Friend of mine had some sort of illness that caused massive coughing spells. He dislocated and cracked some ribs it was so bad