Sick People Should Stay At Home
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I've caught my first cold in nearly 3 years. Two weeks ago, a colleague sat opposite me, next to me in meetings etc, and basically sneezed, coughed and snotted his way through the week. Nice one. Now, me being a contractor on a day rate, hypocrisy might kick in as I can't afford the time off at the moment!
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
It happens.
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I've caught my first cold in nearly 3 years. Two weeks ago, a colleague sat opposite me, next to me in meetings etc, and basically sneezed, coughed and snotted his way through the week. Nice one. Now, me being a contractor on a day rate, hypocrisy might kick in as I can't afford the time off at the moment!
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
Malcolm Smart wrote:
hypocrisy might kick in as I can't afford the time off at the moment
this is one of the more ironic statements.... And this is the ultimate problem. None of us can afford to be without pay. I have always stayed home when ill, used my leave, and even a couple of times used leave without pay.... But the latter is very hard. Now that I am married, the latter is impossible, money is stretched thin for the next year. The good news is in like 6-8 years (I forget which) my vacation goes up another week a year. But in the mean time, I stay home when I have leave, but when I do not have leave left... chances are I will be locked in my office, trying very hard not to breath on anyone. :)
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Xiangyang Liu wrote:
If an employee says "I am going to be sick tomorrow"
Yeah, the employee could actually be going for an interview for a job in a better work environment :rolleyes:
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Absolutely True.
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I've caught my first cold in nearly 3 years. Two weeks ago, a colleague sat opposite me, next to me in meetings etc, and basically sneezed, coughed and snotted his way through the week. Nice one. Now, me being a contractor on a day rate, hypocrisy might kick in as I can't afford the time off at the moment!
"More functions should disregard input values and just return 12. It would make life easier." - comment posted on WTF
It Happens for me also. And for us there is one day is the casual Leave allowed for month. So i can compensate with that leave.
Regards, Satips.:rose: Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend. - Albert Camus
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Xiangyang Liu wrote:
At my company there is a unpopular policy of discouraging people using sick leaves
The company I work for is exactly the opposite. If you are sick and have the sick time they expect you to use it, thats why, they say, they give you 4 hours sick time a month
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Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
they give you 4 hours sick time a month
What a joke? 4 Hours? I wouldn't work for any of the companies that have been mentioned so far. We don't have a "sick" policy. If you're sick, you're sick. Take as much time as you need to get better. Abuse of this freedom is usually so apparent that a policy is unnecessary as management just makes judgment calls based on their own review of the employee and not some stupid number policy.
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Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
they give you 4 hours sick time a month
What a joke? 4 Hours? I wouldn't work for any of the companies that have been mentioned so far. We don't have a "sick" policy. If you're sick, you're sick. Take as much time as you need to get better. Abuse of this freedom is usually so apparent that a policy is unnecessary as management just makes judgment calls based on their own review of the employee and not some stupid number policy.
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jgasm wrote:
What a joke? 4 Hours?
I've worked for companies who offer far LESS than this, 6 paid days off a year (plus 12 vacation days) not to mention of course the paid holidays isn't really anything to sneeze at. I've worked for companies who don't even offer paid sick time off, if you're sick you just lose the pay (in fact thats more the norm in this state than companies offering paid sick time), in fact, this is the first company Ive worked for in the past 10 years that gives 18 paid days off a year (at most here you get a weeks paid vacation after a year or 2 and no paid sick time) at least with these guys you start off earning vacation & sick time you just don't have access to the sick time for the first 90 days and the vacation time for 6 months, but when 6 months hits you automatically have a 6 day paid vacation waiting
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Absolutely True.
Regards, Satips.:rose: Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend. - Albert Camus
Satips wrote:
Absolutely True.
I agree. Argument I hear is that some employers don't pay for people to miss work being out ill and the sick employer has bills that need to get paid. So they end up going to work sick and spreading germs around X| Some are just under the comtrol of heartless PHBs that don't care about anything but company health, instead of human health...
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Satips wrote:
Absolutely True.
I agree. Argument I hear is that some employers don't pay for people to miss work being out ill and the sick employer has bills that need to get paid. So they end up going to work sick and spreading germs around X| Some are just under the comtrol of heartless PHBs that don't care about anything but company health, instead of human health...
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
the problem is that they don't look deep enough at company health. One employee out sick and not working is an easily quantifiable loss. 10 employees working at 50% efficiency while sick because they weren't able to take time off and the first one ill infected the rest of his coworkers isn't obvious at a high level. :doh:
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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the problem is that they don't look deep enough at company health. One employee out sick and not working is an easily quantifiable loss. 10 employees working at 50% efficiency while sick because they weren't able to take time off and the first one ill infected the rest of his coworkers isn't obvious at a high level. :doh:
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
dan neely wrote:
10 employees working at 50% efficiency while sick because they weren't able to take time off and the first one ill infected the rest of his coworkers isn't obvious at a high level.
Yep.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus