crimzy
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Originally Posted by Flower
http:///forum/post/3023365
This is a bit long but I think it needs to be said...
I got run off the road by a truck driver who was too sick to be on the road. My three small children were in the car and we were trapped for an hour. I can no longer drive on a busy highway, I go phobic and am not safe.
When you are sick...not to mention something as deadly as a big rig...stay home!
I do so much understand the need to work, but it is not worth your life and the life of those around you. Taking a sick day is not being a whimp it is being intelligent.
My brother in law was one of those never stay home guys. he went to work sick, he thought it was a flu, or bad indigestion from something he ate. His boss noticed how pale he looked and insisted he go to the doctor. The boss insisted to the point of driving him there himself, my brother in law went into convulsions and died on the way from a blocked artery. He was only 46.
All this grief was preventable. All it would have taken is for these people to stay home and say..."today I don't feel good and I am not going to work, I need a sick day."
When I was 22 years old, my left arm ached. I work at cleaning so a sore arm was a good enough excuse to me to take a day off, later that afternoon I had a massive heart attack. At 22 who would have thought of a heart attack? what if I had gone on in, I would be dead...A lady some years later did just that. The boss found her dead sitting in her station with a broom in her hand. She had been dead 3 hours before she was even missed.
I do not agree with you Crimzy, you do not know another’s pain or health. You wouldn't give a person a job because they ask about a benefit!! OMG what a horse’s rear! I hope you are never in authority. It is just a sick day...it is not your personal money. It is the company money. They have a budget with the sick days employees are allowed already factored in. You are willing to take food out of a person’s mouth and the mouths of their children because you think it wrong to inquire about a benefit??? So you won't give them a job...then I bet you turn around and say nobody should get unemployment.
Meowzer it is so very unwise to go to work sick. The guy who created the Muppets died very young because he didn't think he was all that sick.
Is there abuse? Sure, but the good outweighs the bad. If you’re sick stay home, and I don't think it is a requirement to be on the floor vomiting either. My personal experience with my heart attack is testimony to that.
Don't bother saying ... Well in that case, or in that instance it was okay...my whole point is that you never know when it is THAT case, or THAT instance.
You make valid points. No doubt that there are times when there are serious health concerns. That, however is very different from the person who doesn't want to work on a Monday when he/she has the sniffles.
I may be a "horse's rear" but I essentially do make the hiring decisions at my firm. If someone's first concern when asking for the job, is about sick days, then that shows something about his/her work ethic. There are too many hard working people with excellent work ethics to worry about someone who is going to stay home every time they stub their toe, for fear that this could be a life threatening ailment.
This is business, not personal... if someone wants to sit home, drink tea and watch the soaps just because he/she has a cold, then they are not going to be an asset to my company. There's a spectrum between being extremely driven and being extremely lazy.... in my business, I'd err on the side of driven.
http:///forum/post/3023365
This is a bit long but I think it needs to be said...
I got run off the road by a truck driver who was too sick to be on the road. My three small children were in the car and we were trapped for an hour. I can no longer drive on a busy highway, I go phobic and am not safe.
When you are sick...not to mention something as deadly as a big rig...stay home!
I do so much understand the need to work, but it is not worth your life and the life of those around you. Taking a sick day is not being a whimp it is being intelligent.
My brother in law was one of those never stay home guys. he went to work sick, he thought it was a flu, or bad indigestion from something he ate. His boss noticed how pale he looked and insisted he go to the doctor. The boss insisted to the point of driving him there himself, my brother in law went into convulsions and died on the way from a blocked artery. He was only 46.
All this grief was preventable. All it would have taken is for these people to stay home and say..."today I don't feel good and I am not going to work, I need a sick day."
When I was 22 years old, my left arm ached. I work at cleaning so a sore arm was a good enough excuse to me to take a day off, later that afternoon I had a massive heart attack. At 22 who would have thought of a heart attack? what if I had gone on in, I would be dead...A lady some years later did just that. The boss found her dead sitting in her station with a broom in her hand. She had been dead 3 hours before she was even missed.
I do not agree with you Crimzy, you do not know another’s pain or health. You wouldn't give a person a job because they ask about a benefit!! OMG what a horse’s rear! I hope you are never in authority. It is just a sick day...it is not your personal money. It is the company money. They have a budget with the sick days employees are allowed already factored in. You are willing to take food out of a person’s mouth and the mouths of their children because you think it wrong to inquire about a benefit??? So you won't give them a job...then I bet you turn around and say nobody should get unemployment.
Meowzer it is so very unwise to go to work sick. The guy who created the Muppets died very young because he didn't think he was all that sick.
Is there abuse? Sure, but the good outweighs the bad. If you’re sick stay home, and I don't think it is a requirement to be on the floor vomiting either. My personal experience with my heart attack is testimony to that.
Don't bother saying ... Well in that case, or in that instance it was okay...my whole point is that you never know when it is THAT case, or THAT instance.
You make valid points. No doubt that there are times when there are serious health concerns. That, however is very different from the person who doesn't want to work on a Monday when he/she has the sniffles.
I may be a "horse's rear" but I essentially do make the hiring decisions at my firm. If someone's first concern when asking for the job, is about sick days, then that shows something about his/her work ethic. There are too many hard working people with excellent work ethics to worry about someone who is going to stay home every time they stub their toe, for fear that this could be a life threatening ailment.
This is business, not personal... if someone wants to sit home, drink tea and watch the soaps just because he/she has a cold, then they are not going to be an asset to my company. There's a spectrum between being extremely driven and being extremely lazy.... in my business, I'd err on the side of driven.
