Poor Badger
*gives Lemsip*
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 9:32, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

our sick policy is riduiculous as well
we don't get paid unless we get specific confirmation from the plant manager we aren't fucking skiving cuntbags.
and thanks
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 9:34, Reply)

That's a bit shit
Ours is alright, just have to self-sign when we get back if it's only a day.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 9:35, Reply)

I haven't had a sick day in 8 months
so I'd probably be ok. But I'm playing my martyr card as teh other girl is on holiday and they would be screwed without me
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 9:39, Reply)

You? Milk something for all it's worth?
I can't imagine such a thing!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 9:45, Reply)

It is shocking I know

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 9:48, Reply)

thing random stranger
worth man batter
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 9:57, Reply)

Really?
So he's got to visit you at home to check every time you get sick?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 9:38, Reply)

He looks at how many times we have been off/how much he likes us etc

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 9:40, Reply)

That sounds fair enough
In a communist world.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 9:47, Reply)

We use something called the Bradford Index.
Basically, if you have lots of one or two day spells of sickness, a score mounts up that triggers action once you get to a certain threshhold (125 I think). Conversely, if you have two fortnightly spells of sicknesss, you score less because of the way it's worked out. It's supposed to discourage people taking Monday and Friday sickies, but most of my spells of sickness have been one or two days as when I'm starting to feel shit I take to my bed and dose up on drugs, which usually sorts it out quickly, so I can get back to work and not disrupt things too much.

It's a bit shit if you ask me. You could have ten days off, individually, and get hauled in by HR, but if you had 24 days off in two blocks of a fortnight, nothing would happen.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:08, Reply)