Re: Greetings and whinings

Stuart Rogers <stuart.rogers.clara.co.uk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On 10/4/07 19:12, "Sarah" wrote:
>> "Alan Brand" <alan.brandATsymp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:hujn139a0io7qni4850bau9bggqk75k18q@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:06:56 -0400, kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:40:00 -0500, Alan Brand
>>>> <alan.brandATsymp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Pah, I suppose you expect sympathy? I've just passed the two week
mark
>>>>> of fighting an allergic shock that was exacerbated by every single
>>>>> drug the doctors threw at me - standard response ... "hmm, that
>>>>> doesn't happen very often". I really recommend a fortnight of
episodic
>>>>> anaphylaxis
>> 
>> I guess this means I don't get sympathy for tonsillitis? Not that it
>> was really worth too much sympathy. I mind more that after 1 day off
>> sick in 3 years, I got sick while on holiday.
>
>You should get a swivel service job like mine - if we're sick while
>on leave we're expected to call in sick, take a sick day, and take
>the leave some other time.  The point of the leave being rest and
>recuperation from work, and you can't do that if you're ill.
>

It's not only Sybill Serpents who get that benefit.  Lots of companies
have that policy.  Most of them just don't tell you about it, or it's
written in a microdot in the staff handbook.



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