Oh -- but, haven't you heard???
Laughter is THE best medicine.
I know it sounds a bit OCD, but when I use buses, especially in winter
when everyone is coughing and spluttering. I go wash my hands when I get
to where I'm going.
Im certain it's prevented a lot of colds. I hardly get any. I also don't want to
catch colds and take them home to my elderly aunt, who has COPD and needs
oxygen. I also pray and ask God to protect me from all the viruses.
It works! Last year everyone in my team at work, was off at least a few days
with awful colds. Then when they came back they were coughing and spluttering
for weeks on end. Whatever it was, it never touched me. Lol
I'm forever reminding the careers who come in, not to come to work if they
are not well. Some have turned up previously with flu, severe colds, winter
vomiting sickness bug. It's unbelievable that they go to work like this when they
are going from house to house dealing with elderly vulnerable people.
Unfortunately they are on zero hours contracts, if they don't work they don't get
paid. But a bad cold for them can be two weeks in hospital for my aunt.
Having said that one one of my brothers came to visit last year while he
has bronchitis! I told him off.
Some people are just thoughtless.
As for those touch screens I suppose you could carry hand gel if it bothers you.
Problem we had was if we wanted to abuse the system it was easy. One train driver used to be off work for a day under six months a year on full pay and he had done it for years. Because it was classed as a single sickness it was OK. He actually could take more sick days off after... If he was sick for exactly six months or more it was sack time. I pointed it out when I had disciplinary and I was told he was a separate case! Nothing wrong with him as he had a log round in the six months he was off work. Oops. I mean a day under six months! (I dont want to get him in trouble!)We have a sickness disciplinary procedures at my place too. I work for the civil service.
Take 7 days off in a rolling 12 month period and you get a verbal warning. At 14 days you
get your first written warning. If you take any more sick off in next 6 months you get
a second written warning. Any more sick leave and you get dismissed.
The weekends and bank hols also count in the sickness policy days. So if you are off
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday it's 4 days sick leave, even if you don't work
weekends.
I had 3.5 weeks off last year when I hurt my back. I had a slipped disc, sciatica, then
I pulled my back again and got a trapped nerve. I was suppose to have a written first
warning, but God intervened. My manger was too busy to set up the meeting so it
got overlooked. Then by the time she remembered, too much time had passed so she
had to let it go. But she said any more time off in next 12 months and I would get a
written warning.
Then in Feb this year I pulled my back again, it wasn't as bad but I had awful spasms
and could not stand up straight or sit up straight. It happened on the Thursday my day off.
But my back was still going into spasms on the Friday. So I rang up to ask if I could
take annual leave instead of sick leave.
My manager would not let me so I was forced to go into work to avoid a disciplinary.
I got a taxi and walked into work bent double. My managers manager took one look
at me and told me to go home, because I had made the effort they didn't discipline me.
But it still cost me two taxi fares there and back and also aggravated it.
Im still within the 12 month rolling sick period. So I have to wait until end of
September this year to clear last years sickness absence off my record.
With the lowering of standards in schools, governments come up with new ways to communicate to the electorite!
