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  • E eyeseetee

    Ive spend the last 11 months and 3 weeks at the same company on a 1 year contact. I havent technically phoned in sick for the whole year but this week I'm coming down with the mother of all colds, Ive got to suck it up only 7 days left before I leave. Who can beat this record of 1 year without phoning in sick? :)

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    realJSOP
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    I spent 10 years working from home. I never once called in sick.

    "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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    "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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      Is that because you get paid per day and wouldn't get the cash if you were off sick?

      My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"

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      R Giskard Reventlov
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      Bloody right: had a slipped disc last year: never missed a day! (Ibuprofen niiiiice).

      me, me, me

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      • E eyeseetee

        Ive spend the last 11 months and 3 weeks at the same company on a 1 year contact. I havent technically phoned in sick for the whole year but this week I'm coming down with the mother of all colds, Ive got to suck it up only 7 days left before I leave. Who can beat this record of 1 year without phoning in sick? :)

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        marky777
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        Took my 1st day of sick leave 4 months ago, after working for 2 years without taking off sick (got sick, but soldiered on) X|

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        • E eyeseetee

          dadadadum "Some people stand in the darkness, afraid to look into the light..." ;P

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          R Giskard Reventlov
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          eyeseetee wrote:

          Some people stand in the darkness, afraid to look into the light

          Hasselhof fan?

          me, me, me

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            eyeseetee wrote:

            Some people stand in the darkness, afraid to look into the light

            Hasselhof fan?

            me, me, me

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            No, just using the baywatch theme tune as a way of mocking the fact that come rain or shine you will make it into work. Obviously it has gone down in flames.

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            • realJSOPR realJSOP

              I spent 10 years working from home. I never once called in sick.

              "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
              -----
              "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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              10 years working at home ay? I guess you use this forum as your only form of social interaction then.

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              • E eyeseetee

                No, just using the baywatch theme tune as a way of mocking the fact that come rain or shine you will make it into work. Obviously it has gone down in flames.

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                R Giskard Reventlov
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                Sad to say...

                me, me, me

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                • R R Giskard Reventlov

                  Sad to say...

                  me, me, me

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                  shuffles towards the door and grabs his coat...

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                  • E eyeseetee

                    shuffles towards the door and grabs his coat...

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                    R Giskard Reventlov
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                    eyeseetee wrote:

                    shuffles towards the door and grabs his coat...

                    more than worthy of a 5.

                    me, me, me

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                    • E eyeseetee

                      Ive spend the last 11 months and 3 weeks at the same company on a 1 year contact. I havent technically phoned in sick for the whole year but this week I'm coming down with the mother of all colds, Ive got to suck it up only 7 days left before I leave. Who can beat this record of 1 year without phoning in sick? :)

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                      Lovely. You're one of those who, come hell, high water, or snotty nose, feel it necessary to come in to the office and share your disease with your coworkers. Thanks for sharing, but get the hell home and stop spreading it around. Of course, I'm one to talk. I'm coming down with a cold, and where am I? Out in the center pasture of the cube farm where I work. Moo.

                      Software Zen: delete this;

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                        Bloody right: had a slipped disc last year: never missed a day! (Ibuprofen niiiiice).

                        me, me, me

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                        Mycroft Holmes
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                        Imagine how I feel, after a decade of contracting in Oz and the Uk I get a contract in Singapore where I get paid sick leave. I found this out when I got an additional $400 at the end of the first year for not using any of it. I still cannot make myself take a sick day that is not valid.

                        Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                        • E eyeseetee

                          10 years working at home ay? I guess you use this forum as your only form of social interaction then.

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                          When I was working from home, this site wasn't even in existence.

                          "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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                          "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                          • E eyeseetee

                            Ive spend the last 11 months and 3 weeks at the same company on a 1 year contact. I havent technically phoned in sick for the whole year but this week I'm coming down with the mother of all colds, Ive got to suck it up only 7 days left before I leave. Who can beat this record of 1 year without phoning in sick? :)

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                            Umm...a *lot* of the self employed here can beat that record. I'm going on about 10 years now at a guess.


                            "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson

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                              Lovely. You're one of those who, come hell, high water, or snotty nose, feel it necessary to come in to the office and share your disease with your coworkers. Thanks for sharing, but get the hell home and stop spreading it around. Of course, I'm one to talk. I'm coming down with a cold, and where am I? Out in the center pasture of the cube farm where I work. Moo.

                              Software Zen: delete this;

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                              Gary Wheeler wrote:

                              Thanks for sharing, but get the hell home and stop spreading it around.

                              This being the 21st century why are there so many people who don't understand that the success of the cold and flu come down to them being most contagious before obvious syptoms occur? By the time your co-worker comes in all snotty and coughing they've pretty much passed the state of transmissability and have already infected their co-workers before they even knew they were sick.


                              "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson

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                                Gary Wheeler wrote:

                                Thanks for sharing, but get the hell home and stop spreading it around.

                                This being the 21st century why are there so many people who don't understand that the success of the cold and flu come down to them being most contagious before obvious syptoms occur? By the time your co-worker comes in all snotty and coughing they've pretty much passed the state of transmissability and have already infected their co-workers before they even knew they were sick.


                                "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson

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                                Gary Wheeler
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                                Dammit John, I'm not a doctor, I'm a moon shuttle conductor. (with apologies to DeForest Kelley, R.I.P.)

                                Software Zen: delete this;

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                                  Dammit John, I'm not a doctor, I'm a moon shuttle conductor. (with apologies to DeForest Kelley, R.I.P.)

                                  Software Zen: delete this;

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                                  Member 96
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                                  :laugh: Don't feel bad, I don't think more than 1 in a thousand people actually know this.


                                  "It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson

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