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Started by Jester, August 01, 2006, 05:18:27 PM

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Jester

i am often told we are a community that looks after each other.

well i have half an hour to decide what i shall use tomorrow as an excuse.

i have used contact problems now. good excuse so far dont you think?

what are yours? please help!! i dont want work!

Aysleen

threw back out, twisted knee, ear ache, migraine...all plausible, and none require any visible injury
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* If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is,
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And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
*Curiouser and curiouser.

Elvi

-You got struck by lightening after a visit to our house and we are burying you tomorrow?

-The dog ate the postman?

-You just can't be arsed and they are all areholes anyway?
(Oh no, that's what I put in my resignation letter)
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RubySlippers

Well with some of those you have to explain a fast recovery I would use a impacted wisdom tooth or cracked molar that hurts a hell of a lot and can be fixed by an emergency dental visit. And is easiest to cover up.

Elvi

What you have never used the "Sorry but I couldn't contact you yesterday because I died" Excuse before?
Good grief, kids of today!
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RubySlippers

By the way you do realize taking off a dy of work when you are ABLE to work using a sick day is stealing from your employer. Your stealing from his productivity why not wait and ask for a day off when its convenient for your company?

Lilian

I'm proud to work in a company where they'll understand the answer,  "I just dont fucking feel like it." ^^

...as long as we dont take any time off the next two weeks and preferrably if they knew when you didnt feel like it at least a few days in advance. >.>

RubySlippers

Well I will get next year 21 personal days they prefer not taking them over the peak holiday season since we process and handle customers for Macys and Budines plus a dozen smaller nitche chains of stores, but they are paid and can be used for sick days or vacations. But using sick days when your not sick is stealing if they pay you they are supposed to be if your ill.

Aysleen

we get 'paid time off', and you take it when you want, for what you want.  I'm fortunate that my job doesn't have periodic 'busy' periods...it's pretty much slow all the time lol...but when it does get a little busier, of course I don't take time off, unless I am really sick.  but if during a normal week, I wake up one morning and just don't feel like going into work, I call in, and everyone is okay with it...no excuses, I just say I'm not coming in.  I do tell them that if anything happens and they need me, they can reach me on my cell.  I'm always available on my cell, UNLESS, I'm taking actual vacation and doing something away from home...then my cell is OFF! ;)
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* I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself you see.
*We're all mad here.
* If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is,
because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be.
And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
*Curiouser and curiouser.

Lilian

My job is entering into the busy season.

For EVERY SINGLE HOTEL AND CASINO... FOR EVERY SINGLE CONVENTION COMING INTO LAS VEGAS... there are two people delivering radios.  There is one person that programs Nextels. There is one person that programs radios. And up to three people taking care of all the shipping.

We're talking up to a couple of THOUSAND radios in a week...  and everything be perfect. No mistakes. Ever.

Aysleen

Quote from: Lilian on August 01, 2006, 10:07:36 PM
and everything be perfect. No mistakes. Ever.

Talk about pressure!  I'd never exist in that world.
Ons and Offs
* I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself you see.
*We're all mad here.
* If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is,
because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be.
And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
*Curiouser and curiouser.

Lilian

Yea.. company wants to boast about making over one hundred and fifty million in one year and buying out all its competitors..  cant afford to hire more help. =P  Or even provide more than three cheap t-shirts per driver...

Elvi

Hell Ruby.....you have so much to learn about life......
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Jester

so ruby do you never drink too much the night before and wake up feeling rough and not wanting to go into work?

Elvi

What about being sick of work?
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Apple of Eris

If you're self-employed and don't feel like getting out of bed and carrying your laptop downstairs to your office, leave your cellphone on only for emergencies, and then veg out all day, am I stealing from myself?
Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.  ~Jayne Mansfield
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, then call whatever you hit the target. ~Ashleigh Brilliant

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Elvi

Well in that case I had better take myself off to the cop shop right now and do myself for fraudulant use of my own time! *laughs*
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Apple of Eris

I think I should fire myself, though I actually did get up and go into town since I have work to do today. Yay, and with a heat index that is supposed to go up to 115 Farenheit! Woo!
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RubySlippers

Quote from: comedyjester on August 02, 2006, 04:05:51 AM
so ruby do you never drink too much the night before and wake up feeling rough and not wanting to go into work?

Sure I have bad days that is different from being SICK or having a medical reason to not go to work. And I don't drink I'm under 21. My point is I'm hired to work sick days are a privalege to use when your legitimately ill or a lovd one is ill (most companies include that) to take care of matters. Its not to be abused.

I get paid personal days and can use them for anything I want but I still should be at work unless arrangements are made or there is an emergency otherwise its stealing from my empoyer- I have a moral obligation to be at work unless I can't for a good reason OR have arranged such ahead of time.


Jester

well. i admire that. i think its foolish but i admire it.

i dont think many companies would show you the same loyalty. there are millions of people the world over who are underpaid, over worked, bullied, not allowed to use their holidays when it is convenient to them, dont get a cost of living pay rise, and is this not morally wrong?

in england people regularly drink before they are legally allowed to. i started drinking/smoking/sleeping with my mates on brighton beach from the age of 14 and i think it is something that a lot of people do (perhaps not on brighton beach).

i think the first time you are made redundant or dont get a pay rise or are told that those two weeks for your holiday are not convenient and you have to wait two months you will think differently about where your moral obligations lie.

RubySlippers

Well what happened to ones work ethics in the world. Just because the company might treat an employee badly does not mean you should not do your best by the company. Now I can understand union strikes and other mechanisms I have coal mining relatives in the family and they had to strike for better conditions in the past and maybe now. There is a difference between ones health and safety, and using lame excuses not to work when you can.

As for my personal days I get 8 right now being with the company under a year and I can't take them for personal reasons during the busy periods like the Christmas rush- save if their is a good reason like a medical need or a death in the family. Sure they can place limits on them when the sales shoot up at the stores we cover we have to work. I even get sent to the credit granting section or customer service now and then when its busy.

But even if the company screwed me over at some point we have a right to hire state they can just as easily fire me the one defense since I'm disabled is it might make them think twice doing so.  But do I trust them- no. I save as much as I can and am using them to get my bachelors degree since they are going to pay half the costs. But there are workers that have been here for 10, 20 or more years. And I for one think a strong work ethic, being professional and not abusing the privaleges given to me and maintaining good attendance matters in an employee.



Jester

right....



anyway after one particularily heave night out i once phoned in and told my boss i had knackered my ankle and i had two wrap it up in a bandage so that i had restricted movement and also so i rememebered to limp for two weeks.

2 sick days or 2 weeks limping? hmmmmmm

Elvi

I think Ruby, you should be careful about imposing your American values onto British workers.

It is also bad to say that those who take the occasional sick day, simply because they just can't build up the enthusiasm to go in, are bad workers.
You will find that most who do so are far better workers when they are there than the ones who trudge in every day and sit there doing bugger all, because they don't want to be there and are misserable.
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Max

Quote from: appleoferis on August 02, 2006, 10:06:51 AM
I think I should fire myself, though I actually did get up and go into town since I have work to do today. Yay, and with a heat index that is supposed to go up to 115 Farenheit! Woo!

Just curious, if you fired yourself, who would you get to do your job?  And what if you decided that you were not fired, what then?  :)
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"No, chainsaws."  (just kidding)

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Elvi

Well, if I were to fire myself, the first thing I would do would be to go to the industrial tribunal and claim unfair dismissal.
Then I would be given a huge amount of compensation when I won the case, which I would have to pay myself and would have to offer me my job back.
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