Of course, you can also alleviate that by not hiring shitty people, and firing people if they're clearly abusing the system. If only the state could figure that part out...
Precisely. Someone who would abuse an infinite sick day policy is someone you should not hire.
Of course, you can also alleviate that by not hiring shitty people, and firing people if they're clearly abusing the system. If only the state could figure that part out...
Precisely. Someone who would abuse an infinite sick day policy is someone you should not hire.
Don't forget, though, that people can fool you. You might interview someone who appears 100% awesome, but then they turn out to be a system abuser. That's where the competent supervision comes into play, and the firing if necessary.
Don't forget, though, that people can fool you. You might interview someone who appears 100% awesome, but then they turn out to be a system abuser. That's where the competent supervision comes into play, and the firing if necessary.
Where I worked over the summer, the full-time employees had paid sick days and vacation days. Sick days, however, were only used when your vacation days were used up. So say I were to call in with the flu, but my vacation time hasn't been used. That's three days I'm not spending on a beach anymore.
I've had this 103 degree fever for the past few days now and the fever reducers stopped working. My doctor wont see me. She says it's probably nothing serious. Im the patient. I pay YOU. I'll tell you if its serious. I'm going to the emergency room. When I'm better, I'm changing doctors.
Good. I have a lot of family friends and relatives who are doctors in all different fields, and I can tell you that that sort of treatment is completely unprofessional, ridiculous, and borderline unethical.
You'd think that would be obvious, but again, I point to New York State civil service. If we could actually fire people for being incompetent, or set our requirements at a level that would weed out incompetence, we'd be OK. Apparently, they haven't figured that part out just yet.
Still, I'll take someone who somewhat abuses a leave system over someone who comes in even when they're sick, all else being equal.
I once had a boss at my college job (manning a register at the on campus convenience store) tell me that I was abusing the "bathroom privilege" because I sometimes used the restroom during my shift (my shifts was 5 hours long) and not on my one 15 minute break. I informed her that going to the bathroom was a necessity, not a privilege and I reported her to her superior. The following semester I found a better campus job at the library where they never minded if I had to use the facilities.
I've had this 103 degree fever for the past few days now and the fever reducers stopped working. My doctor wont see me. She says it's probably nothing serious. Im the patient. I pay YOU. I'll tell you if its serious. I'm going to the emergency room. When I'm better, I'm changing doctors.
Wow, poor Sonic! I had 102 for a few days with the swine flu, but that's a serious fever! Go to the clinic! Your doctor is full of foolishness.
You know what? If you start getting too delirious or losing consciousness, I heard you should go in a cool (not cold) bath for a few minutes. It will be painful and suck, but it will reduce your fever by a few degrees and snap you out of it. We were told by doctors to do this to my little sister one time when she was super sick, and she woke up and stopped hallucinating within seconds. It was weird.
Speaking of fevers and the like, I'm curious to know the worst anyone's ever been sick here. I had the chickenpox two years ago for a period of two weeks. Had to be hospitalized for a day because of neuralgia (felt like my scalp was a pincushion; I've never screamed so much in my entire life), ran a +100 fever for several days, and was constantly anesthetized with tramadol. Had to take a pill so I could keep down water, and was on Valtrex to try to cut down my recovery time. There were days when I'd sleep for twenty hours at a time, on briefly interrupted by various people to make sure I was alright.
Speaking of fevers and the like, I'm curious to know the worst anyone's ever been sick here. I had the chickenpox two years ago for a period of two weeks. Had to be hospitalized for a day because of neuralgia (felt like my scalp was a pincushion; I've never screamed so much in my entire life), ran a +100 fever for several days, and was constantly anesthetized with tramadol. Had to take a pill so I could keep down water, and was on Valtrex to try to cut down my recovery time. There were days when I'd sleep for twenty hours at a time, on briefly interrupted by various people to make sure I was alright.
This is why you get chicken pox when you are young or not at all.
I had a undiagnosable disease that the pediatrician named after me.
When I was young, like in first grade, My sister and I got a mysterious disease that no one knew what it was. (This is the time I am talking about, with my little sister having to go in the bathtub.) Our white blood counts sky-rocketed, and we were dangerously sick with some sort of infection. One minute we are sitting, eating lunch at a seafood restaurant with our parents and grandmother, the next minute, we are fainting and feverish. I was taken to the hospital and they ran all sorts of tests. I remember it being like a nightmare, because I was only half awake, and I was hallucinating. I thought my teeth were falling out. I had to get an IV. My father read me a picture book called Paper John while they were taking blood and putting in the needles. I had to stay in the hospital for a week.
It sucked but I got better. That's the worst I ever had it, thank goodness. Not so bad.
I'm curious to know the worst anyone's ever been sick here
I got incredibly sick and almost died when I was only a month old. I'm kind of fuzzy as to what it was, but I had to have many surgeries in the area around my stomach.
I've been discharged, but I've been put under "quarentine" for the whole weekend . I was told not to leave the house until monday and I have to wear a mask the whole time. My family has been quarentined too, but they are spared the masks. Apparently I have some form of viral infection, but they cant tell what it is. They know its not swine flu, regular flu, strep, or your other garden variety viruses; they just dont know what kind of virus it is. At anyrate, I've been prescribed tylonol, fluids and Vicodin.
Whats sucks is the effects of all this. My brothers 4th birthday party was this sunday; cancelled. My sister wanted to go to mikomicon; Can't happen. And I wanted to go to mikmicon too; NOT gonna happen.
I had pneumonia once, according to the doctor, but I didn't fee pneumonia levels of sickness. It was just normal sickness that lasted a day or two longer. I stayed home all week, and felt mostly fine. I just kept taking the antibiotics and playing video games.
A few times I had some nasty bargling as a kid, but those were one or two night stands. Kids are going to get sick and bargle all over the bathroom once or twice. Once I drank too much grape juice, and purple puke came out my nose. Rather unpleasant, but not extended.
I had a undiagnosable disease that the pediatrician named after me.
When I was young, like in first grade, My sister and I got a mysterious disease that no one knew what it was. (This is the time I am talking about, with my little sister having to go in the bathtub.) Our white blood counts sky-rocketed, and we were dangerously sick with some sort of infection. One minute we are sitting, eating lunch at a seafood restaurant with our parents and grandmother, the next minute, we are fainting and feverish. I was taken to the hospital and they ran all sorts of tests. I remember it being like a nightmare, because I was only half awake, and I was hallucinating. I thought my teeth were falling out. I had to get an IV. My father read me a picture book called Paper John while they were taking blood and putting in the needles. I had to stay in the hospital for a week.
It sucked but I got better. That's the worst I ever had it, thank goodness. Not so bad.
Was it called Compton's Disease or something like that? That's some pretty scary shit there though, and I'm glad nothing terrible happened.
I had a undiagnosable disease that the pediatrician named after me.
So an incompetent medical doctor named an idiopathic (unknown) disease "Emily"?
A severe gastroenteritis can make you wish for death. Many cases deliver on that wish. Death by dehydration is presumably very not fun.
The last time I had gastroenteritis, I fought it off on my own as I was doing a farm practical at a remotely located piggery way back in my 2nd year of University. It knocked me on my ass for 3 days. I eventually killed it off with overhydration and copious use of probiotics, bananas, rice and yoghurt. However a bad gastro can very definitely kill you, on top of dehydration if there is a severe imbalance of bacteria in the large colon you can get haemorrhagic gastroenteritis - your poop looks like strawberry jam and that jam is the inner lining of cells from your intestines. It doesn't happen to humans in more developed countries but I see it a lot in animals.
I'm curious to know the worst anyone's ever been sick here.
When I was 2 years old I got bacterial meningitis and was in hospital for a few months according to my parents, the scar that was left from that came back to bite me as a focal epilepsy at the age of 16.
It doesn't happen to humans in more developed countries but I see it a lot in animals.
There are a handful of gastro haemorrhagic pathogens that infect humans. The most widely known (at least in the realm of bacteria) are in the EHEC (Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli) group, including E. coli O157:H7. Various Shigella and Campylobacter species also cause a haemorrhagic gastroenteritis. It's hideously unpleasant stuff, from what I understand.
You see it a lot more in under-developed countries because of inadequate sanitation, but it's still a significant problem even in very developed nations.
I'm curious to know the worst anyone's ever been sick here
1) Malignant melanoma and secondary lymphoma and associated chemo (it is a weird situation when the treatment feels worse than the disease does), 2) Hypothermia.
My only near-death experience was when I was born, and I came out with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, and I wasn't breathing at all. Had to stay in the hospital for three days because of that.
Otherwise, I've never been seriously ill. As a kid, worst things I got were chickenpox and the occasional stomach bug. I haven't been sick to the point of puking in almost a decade. If anything, I do get head-splitting ear infections every once in a while. Very specifically, otitis media, which usually only affects kids, but I've had it as recently as 2 years ago, when I was 21.
Worst I've ever had was probably appendicitis. Most painful thing I've experienced, and I've had a few puncture wounds in my lifetime. Worst "sick" feeling, though, was a 1-day flu that hit me on Christmas about two years ago. If that had lasted longer I probably would have gone to the emergency room. I was definitely hallucinating for the entire day. Next day; perfectly fine.
Pretty much nothing. I'm one of those overachievers who goes around and acts normal when I'm sick, with the addition of Advil and the like. If I'm immensely sick, and I can't focus on my normal tasks, then I don't bother. But most of the time sickness is just an annoyance, not a hindrance. I also hardly ever manage to get antibiotics, so I usually have no choice but to wait it out, so why bother putting my life on hold?
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Still, I'll take someone who somewhat abuses a leave system over someone who comes in even when they're sick, all else being equal.
You know what? If you start getting too delirious or losing consciousness, I heard you should go in a cool (not cold) bath for a few minutes. It will be painful and suck, but it will reduce your fever by a few degrees and snap you out of it. We were told by doctors to do this to my little sister one time when she was super sick, and she woke up and stopped hallucinating within seconds. It was weird.
When I was young, like in first grade, My sister and I got a mysterious disease that no one knew what it was. (This is the time I am talking about, with my little sister having to go in the bathtub.) Our white blood counts sky-rocketed, and we were dangerously sick with some sort of infection. One minute we are sitting, eating lunch at a seafood restaurant with our parents and grandmother, the next minute, we are fainting and feverish. I was taken to the hospital and they ran all sorts of tests. I remember it being like a nightmare, because I was only half awake, and I was hallucinating. I thought my teeth were falling out. I had to get an IV. My father read me a picture book called Paper John while they were taking blood and putting in the needles. I had to stay in the hospital for a week.
It sucked but I got better. That's the worst I ever had it, thank goodness. Not so bad.
Whats sucks is the effects of all this. My brothers 4th birthday party was this sunday; cancelled. My sister wanted to go to mikomicon; Can't happen. And I wanted to go to mikmicon too; NOT gonna happen.
This really sucks.
A few times I had some nasty bargling as a kid, but those were one or two night stands. Kids are going to get sick and bargle all over the bathroom once or twice. Once I drank too much grape juice, and purple puke came out my nose. Rather unpleasant, but not extended.
However a bad gastro can very definitely kill you, on top of dehydration if there is a severe imbalance of bacteria in the large colon you can get haemorrhagic gastroenteritis - your poop looks like strawberry jam and that jam is the inner lining of cells from your intestines. It doesn't happen to humans in more developed countries but I see it a lot in animals. When I was 2 years old I got bacterial meningitis and was in hospital for a few months according to my parents, the scar that was left from that came back to bite me as a focal epilepsy at the age of 16.
You see it a lot more in under-developed countries because of inadequate sanitation, but it's still a significant problem even in very developed nations.
Otherwise, I've never been seriously ill. As a kid, worst things I got were chickenpox and the occasional stomach bug. I haven't been sick to the point of puking in almost a decade. If anything, I do get head-splitting ear infections every once in a while. Very specifically, otitis media, which usually only affects kids, but I've had it as recently as 2 years ago, when I was 21.
What the shit was that?