If you're ill, stay at home
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Slightly off/ish topic.
I have a rule in the office here, if you are Ill, dont come in.
One of them came in last week with a cold (only men get the Flu) and was off ill on Mon/Tuesday, net result, i now have the makings of the flu (cos men don't get colds do they) and i am off skiing for 10 days tomorrow with the flu !!
B!tches, when will they learn to do as they are told !!
I have a rule in the office here, if you are Ill, dont come in.
One of them came in last week with a cold (only men get the Flu) and was off ill on Mon/Tuesday, net result, i now have the makings of the flu (cos men don't get colds do they) and i am off skiing for 10 days tomorrow with the flu !!
B!tches, when will they learn to do as they are told !!
CarZee said: Make it a discplinary matter.. such people are anti-social in the extreme and should be horse-whipped to within an inch of their lives.
Agreed - sadly its you bloody contractor types
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(sorry to tar you with this particular brush Ade, me old mucker, but you're a moderator and therefore fair game
) resume
Martyring yourself into work looking like death and bringing in your germs for us full timers. Thank God when we do fall foul to your evil cross infections we get paid to watch Trisha/Killjoy/Today with Des and Mel
>> Edited by GregE240 on Thursday 10th April 14:06
GregE240 said:
CarZee said: Make it a discplinary matter.. such people are anti-social in the extreme and should be horse-whipped to within an inch of their lives.
Agreed - sadly its you bloody contractor types
pause
(sorry to tar you with this particular brush Ade, me old mucker, but you're a moderator and therefore fair game
resume
Martyring yourself into work looking like death and bringing in your germs for us full timers. Thank God when we do fall foul to your evil cross infections we get paid to watch Trisha/Killjoy/Today with Des and Mel
>> Edited by GregE240 on Thursday 10th April 14:06
Mel...Mmmmmmm, gets back under the covers !!
It's not just that.. contractors mostly work on time critical projects - if they weren't that urgent they'd recruit a permie but because they need someone this week a contractor is brought in..
GregE240 said:Agreed - sadly its you bloody contractor types
Therefore we're under significant pressure form the client not to take time off. If I have a day off, my client has to send a replacement body down from Solihull, which doesn't cheer them up and makes me feel awkward too.
nature of the beast.. OTOH I used to take an average of 10 days PA paid sick leave when I was at a corporation.. I reckon less than half of that was legitimate. I've only take 5 days in the last 18 months.. all legitimate, so although there's a risk fo people pressing on with contagious diseases, it also cuts out the days off due to CBA sydrome.
Yeah,
I quite concern about this SARS. It seems to me that the authorities are not really doing anything to stop this spread (of perhaps the next Spanish flu) virus. All airports in Europe are allowing flights to come and go to Asia, and Cananda with hardly any form of screening. AFAK they can't actually perform a test other than take your temperature.
Has me worried at least.. Oh well have a 1 in 22 chance of surviving it when it hits mainland europe....
I quite concern about this SARS. It seems to me that the authorities are not really doing anything to stop this spread (of perhaps the next Spanish flu) virus. All airports in Europe are allowing flights to come and go to Asia, and Cananda with hardly any form of screening. AFAK they can't actually perform a test other than take your temperature.
Has me worried at least.. Oh well have a 1 in 22 chance of surviving it when it hits mainland europe....
CarZee said:
GregE240 said:Agreed - sadly its you bloody contractor types
nature of the beast.. OTOH I used to take an average of 10 days PA paid sick leave when I was at a corporation.. I reckon less than half of that was legitimate. I've only take 5 days in the last 18 months.. all legitimate, so although there's a risk fo people pressing on with contagious diseases, it also cuts out the days off due to CBA sydrome.
TEN days a year on the skive!!?? Holy shit. I've had 5 (yes, FIVE) days 'on the sick' in NINE POINT FIVE YEARS. Three were consecutive (some serious buggy thing, probably flu 'cause it wasn't a cold
), one was a job interview (obviously didn't get the job 
) and the other was the only day I ever skived off 'cos the sun was shining :ahem:. Anyone beat that (truthfully)?
Ian
Rotaree said: This is not aimed at you Hughsie2 you obviously realise the same thing, but why is it that nobody gets a cold these days - the slightest sniffle and it's 'Oh dear I've got flu, I must receive lots of sympathy'IT'S NOT FLU IT'S A FCUCKING COLD - LIVE WITH IT!!!
That's better [/rant]
Thats where ya wrong. Ive had the REAL deal since last bloody saturday...put me on my back, an ive only just started walkin about again. Colds are for pussies.....flu aint good.
deltaf said:
Rotaree said: This is not aimed at you Hughsie2 you obviously realise the same thing, but why is it that nobody gets a cold these days - the slightest sniffle and it's 'Oh dear I've got flu, I must receive lots of sympathy'
That's better [/rant]
Thats where ya wrong. Ive had the REAL deal since last bloody saturday...put me on my back, an ive only just started walkin about again. Colds are for pussies.....flu aint good.
Hint if you can get to work you aint got flu,the worse culprits are footballers they've got flu on Wednesday and running all over the park on Saturday whatever they take i want some.
Well I only worked full time (60hrs per week) for about 18 months before sciving off to university
wedg1e said:
CarZee said:
GregE240 said:Agreed - sadly its you bloody contractor types
nature of the beast.. OTOH I used to take an average of 10 days PA paid sick leave when I was at a corporation.. I reckon less than half of that was legitimate. I've only take 5 days in the last 18 months.. all legitimate, so although there's a risk fo people pressing on with contagious diseases, it also cuts out the days off due to CBA sydrome.
TEN days a year on the skive!!?? Holy shit. I've had 5 (yes, FIVE) days 'on the sick' in NINE POINT FIVE YEARS. Three were consecutive (some serious buggy thing, probably flu 'cause it wasn't a cold
Anyone beat that (truthfully)?
Ian
but I never had a day off on the sick, legitimate or otherwise. What do I win!? 
>> Edited by mattjbatch on Friday 11th April 00:43
At one place I worked one particular person was always sick on Mondays. He also completed his timesheet for the week on the Friday afternoon, where everybody else did it Monday morning. I queried this with his boss (I was accountant/auditor for the department) and was told, 'he looks after his daughter Mondays as his wife works that day'. So why did they not contract him for 4 days a week rather than falsify the sick records?
This sort of attitude is just the sort of b*llocks that dominates the lives of institutionalised petty office-based sad gits... when will you/they realise that the bloke who goes into work with a cold is not the only point of contact you will have with that cold strain is it? Get real and stop whinging.
Hughesie2 said: Slightly off/ish topic.
I have a rule in the office here, if you are Ill, dont come in.
One of them came in last week with a cold (only men get the Flu) and was off ill on Mon/Tuesday, net result, i now have the makings of the flu (cos men don't get colds do they) and i am off skiing for 10 days tomorrow with the flu !!
B!tches, when will they learn to do as they are told !!
Normal common or garden variety flu kills about 5000 people a year in the UK. Thats more people than have become infected with SARS world wide. I've got much better things to worry about (like thinking up illnesses to get off work). Another thing, why are people going around with surgical masks on? The flu virus is like 50 nano metres in size, while the pore size on those masks must be hundreds of microns across! The illusion of safety!
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