Damn. I wondered why my Christmas penile implant wasn’t a Yule log yet.
It’s all well and good to say “If you’re sick don’t come in”, but I ran into a snag last year. Last spring, I caught a nasty strain of the flu. I was running a fever of over 100 degrees Farenheit for four days. The problem is, my company only gives its employees two days of sick leave. This did lead to me coming in sick when I was physically capable of doing something and taking a lot of precautions. The rest of the time, I took unpaid leave. Fortunately, I didn’t give the flu to anyone else. Unfortunately, I caught the blasted flu from someone else in the office.
I’m getting more sensible as I get older. I don’t work as well when I’m sick and I stay sicker longer. I know I’m much better off taking time off to just relax, let my body shut down, and purge the illness out of my system while I do nothing but sleep and read. On the other hand, having only two days of sick leave does discourage this practice. This is, by the way, the worst thing about working for this employer, which is why I stay.
CJ
Yes. Since all you’ll do is spread your flu to that co-worker, resulting in a net loss of staffdays. As long as you’re contagious- stay home! Now, there’s non-contagious sick days- like Migraines or back pains for example. Then, if you come in anyway, you’re a hero. Kudos. But when you’re contagious- stay home!
Siege- there is only one proper thing to do in that case (well, unless you can take vacation days as sick days, which most can)- come in, find the person who is so damn cheap that you only have two sick days per year, and talk to them. Be sure to cough a lot. On them.
I don’t know if you’re the “only person here who thinks women who have surgery to enlarge their breasts are more vain and shallow than those who don’t.” But, I do think your opinion as stated is sweeping and ignorant. By your measure, women fall into to two camps: “those who enlarge their breasts”* and “those who don’t.” This categorization must have been created by someone without grossly misshapen breasts. Please moralize to the 18 year old girl with breasts so asymmetrical, one resembles an apricot the other a grapefruit. Tell her how unnecessary and wrong her augmentation is, and how she is more vain and shallow for wanting to look normal than, say, the supermodel born with a perfect figure who thinks of no one but herself. After all, the augmentation, by your definition, makes her more vain and shallow than the person who leaves mother nature alone. Hell, while we’re at it, let’s talk about how wrong it is to correct minor cleft pallets or to cap broken/chipped but serviceable teeth, straighten only the slightly crooked smile – those damn Nazis bent on perfection of the human appearance
- Going by the spirit of your casting, women who reduced their breast size or have breast lifts for purely cosmetic reasons should also fall into the former category despite the fact that no “enlargement occurred,” correct? After all, the procedures would in your estimation (I’m guessing) be “unnecessary and wrong.” And what is medically necessary is a severity that borders on freakish. This comes from the husband of a women who at only 5’1 and 95 lbs was deemed perfectly normal to carry DD breasts that made her feel uncomfortable physically and emotionally.
In summation, sell your moral superiority somewhere else.
Why do these threads always turn on the OP? This was about Slee’s co-worker’s boobs. Slee didn’t go to work sick with the intent to infect his co-workers, there was no ill-will or vanity there. However, Slee’s co-worker decided that her boobs were more important than everyone else’s holiday plans and when she couldn’t get the time off through the usual channels she lied and said it was a medical emergency. I think Slee has every right to be pissed about it and I hope that his co-worker gets some sort of disciplinary action when she returns. I think she will at least find it a lot harder to get people to cover for her or trade shifts in the future.
I had a similar problem with a co-worker recently over the holidays. It wasn’t quite the same as a boob job but the reasons the worker backed out of one shift and almost out of a second were really not very good reasons. The first shift she never committed to so it wasn’t really calling off, it was more like a “I might be able to do this” and then she kept me hanging for days until telling me she couldn’t the day before Thanksgiving. I found out from someone else that she was going to call off on a recent holiday shift that she had committed to (for a frivolous reason). Had the worker called off on that second shift though she would have been disciplined, a warning letter in her file and she would never again be given an optional shift.