Pig flu promises holidays for all The Department of Health is actively considering doubling the time people are allowed to sign themselves off sick as a response to swine flu - officially now a pandemic. Currently you are allowed to sign yourself off sick for paltry seven days, but the DoH thinks this should be increased to a tasty two weeks. Given that many …
We get ill and just work though it usually - luckily I can use the laptop and work from the sofa wrapped in a quilt. Been there done it.
IMHO far better than having to work in an office feeling like poo wrapped in a heavy coat shivering and sweating at the same time because you have a quota to get out by the end of the week.
Done this once and did NOT enjoy it at all!
Jacqui
I don't get paid per hour/day - I have a standard monthly wage from the company - They do not give any sick pay unless you have been off for the 7 days to self certify - in which case you get statutory sick pay....
I'm paying a lot of debts of each month - Basically if I have a day off I will go bankrupt...
I think what i'll do If I do get the swine flu is ensure that I go to work and cough in hope of infecting as many people as possible - then the company may realise that it's sick pay police is inhuman and royally sucks.
As someone who caught the strain going around Oz I can tell you it was a miserable experience. I felt like I had fever but the thermometer only registered a very small bit high. I felt the need to sleep in a few days. I had a bit of a sinus thing that involved something like post nasal drip and a slightly irritated throat. The worst was the occasional cough was was of an intensity somewhere between what you would hear from a librarian if you speak too loud and that cough after you hear the doc say "Turn your head and cough."
I don't know how I lived though it after hearing what the TV had to say. I must be lucky.
The NHS 'round my way are now diagnosing Swine Flu' over the phone... the result being that my 2 year old was diagnosed with Hamthrax... for being a bit pukey, and possibly being in the same building once where some bloke saw a pig who looked a bit under the weather.
If anyone's interested, I have 4days worth of Tamiflu going spare now.
7 days is too long for anyone. if you're too ill to go to work for seven days you really should be seeing a doctor.
we don't get 7 days at my place of work, more like 2 or 3 but that's the private sector for you. but I know of civil servants who seem to spend half their working life on "sick" leave with no consequences what so ever.
In our offices people usually feel very strongly compelled to work by the bosses, (not least as wages get cut after 5 days sick (per year)) and so ill people usually bring their colds into work with them, and then disrupt even more people by making them also ill and so also find it hard to work, so the company ends up loosing even more work time with more sick people here. So one person with a cold ends spreading to become loads of people with colds. Still the lack of empathy from our bosses does also mean their blissful ignorance keeps them happy as people are clocking in and out so it looks like the minions are working. They can't see time is lost and actually hold the idea of people coming in sick as a good example of such hard workers.
So much for stopping the spread of this flu.
What it is to be a wage slave. On the bright side, maybe future generations will look back at us and laugh.
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