Redhead74

If you don't like people using sick days they are entitled to, work in the US somewhere without sick leave, people will show up, sick or not. Enjoy working with them.

That's a major, major pet peeve of mine. I tell my coworkers, if you're sick stay the hell home. Don't come into work infecting everyone else.

And it's one of the reasons I don't eat at restaurants very often, too many experiences where servers or kitchen staff are sick as a dog but they report to work because either they don't have paid sick time or they don't have adequate coverage. No thank you, you can serve that plate of viruses to someone else.

Again, that's a flawed mentality because so many people with colds are walking around public spaces infecting those around them. Just go to the supermarket, hop on a bus or a go to a fast food joint and you're likely to come into contact with someone who has a cold. They're too sick to work but not quite sick enough to retract themselves from all public interaction.

That argument just doesn't work because unless all you do is go to work and go straight home day in day out, you're going to come into contact with contagious infections whether you're at work or not.

I couldn't work for a company that micro-managed my time.

My company respects and treats its workers like adults. As long as you are doing your job at a high standard, who cares if you take an occasional day off? In fact, my company requires us to use a certain amount of leave every year because they don't want us to get burnt out. If you haven't missed a day for six months your boss will come tell you to schedule some time off. All paid, of course.

Yes, but that's what we have ANNUAL leave for (I get that your company uses a different system, but 99% of the worlds businesses still operate with the sick leave/annual leave system). Sick leave is for when you are actually sick. Not "I used up all my entitled annual leave but now I want more". We receive more than enough of both and it should be respected, not abused.

So...Red is pissed because people use sick days that they are entitled to, and when they feel better, they return too promptly?

Be thankful you even get sick days. FMLA law in the US just says they can't fire you for taking time off for medical, but they don't have to pay you. Plenty of jkbs here don't give you paid sick leave or any vacation. I strained my back a month ago or so, it hurt to walk the next day so I called in, the next day it was better so I went back to work. Sometimes people feel like they're about to get sick (usually the most contagious time) and a day in bed drinking fluids and resting cures it.

If you don't like people using sick days they are entitled to, work in the US somewhere without sick leave, people will show up, sick or not. Enjoy working with them.

Lol. That would be fine if when they are contagious they actually take the day to stay at HOME in isolation . But the fact is that people who have colds are wandering around public places all the time, so the reality is that most of the colds you pick up are not from your work colleagues but from supermarkets, banks, gas stations, restaurants, cafés, airports, on aeroplanes etc, etc. Pretty much anywhere money is handled, food is eaten and/or air conditioning systems are in place. So the whole "don't come in and infect everyone else" is a pile of shit argument.

And I believe that sick leave and annual leave are a LUXURY. A luxury that unions fought really hard many years ago to establish. By abusing it you jeopardise the system because small business can only sustain so much. No wonder so many businesses now are trying to employ people on a contractual basis or casual basis without the need to pay sick and annual leave......globalisation has started to make it all very expensive. Abuse of the system has a serious knock on affect that most people don't give two fucks about until they're unemployed.

The only time I can remember staying home from work during the past two years was five days in 2013 when I had pneumonia . That means I'm a lazy Gen Y kid who's had everything handed to me.

No, not really because pneumonia is a genuine illness where any doctor in his right mind would deem you unfit for work and for good reason.

But it does mean you're not very bright.

I've just about had a gutfull of people who ring in 'sick' when the day before they were perfectly FINE and the day after they're TOTALLY FUCKING FINE!!!!!

Could have been a migraine, those things can come and go in a matter of hours but you're totally incapacitated while it's happening. Or food poisoning Not saying they all likely have migraines and/or food poisoning, but maybe don't be so quick to judge.

I try and not be off unless I'm really feeling horrible, or have something that's likely to spread to other people. No point coming in mid-flu doped up enough to function, then the whole place ending up getting it.

She rang in and said she "has a headache". How else can the situation be viewed?

The fact is that is a USELESS excuse for not coming to work and leaving a string of fittings that others then have to squeeze into their schedules. We have this thing called paracetamol and aspirin that does an amazing job of clearing up even severe headaches within an hour, usually 30 minutes.

I have no issue with people calling in sick when they are ACTUALLY sick. But I think the definition of what is genuinely sick needs to be re-evaluated. A headache doesn't count. A runny nose doesn't count. And wanting a day off because you couldn't get a day of annual leave is pathetic. Annual leave and sick leave is actually a luxury that shouldn't be abused.

I'd be interested to know what they apply to.

You can google it, there's plenty of references on the interwebs.

She's even fired people who were so stupid to post pics of an awesome party the night before they called in sick.

I've just about had a gutfull of people who ring in 'sick' when the day before they were perfectly FINE and the day after they're TOTALLY FUCKING FINE!!!!!

Unless you had a 24 hour virus that struck at 7pm and rendered you a vomiting mess also with diarrhoea and ended at 7pm (or so) the next day, I don't think you were really sick. Just sayin'

The reason I have a problem with this is because I work in a company that has only a limited number of skilled people and when one person unreasonably calls in sick then the rest of us have to pick up their slack. I know the people in my company who do it and I have ZERO respect for them. Actually, I think they're fucking losers.

Basically, I think the country I live in needs an overhaul as to what the definition of 'sick' is. A headache doesn't count. Hayfever doesn't count. Just feeling a bit tired and 'off' doesn't count. There are medications you can take for those things that medical professionals spent years developing. Yes, YEARS! Or just a good nights sleep, and that is not the responsibility of your fellow employees. A full time employee here gets 8 days a year to be 'sick'. That is a fucking lot of days every 12 months of either having the FLU (not a cold), throwing your guts up or perhaps in the worst extreme, being in hospital for some good reason. It's doesn't count as annual leave!

I think in particular Gen Y are very lame when it comes to their definition of 'sick'. When it doesn't affect me I just at their level or lameness. They think it is an entitlement, but ultimately the degree of poverty they are living in will define their definition of 'sick'.

What is your view on being 'sick' on a work day? Do you pull fake sickies? And does it affect you when others call in sick?

The only teacher I ever had any respect for was my Year 11 English teacher. He would come to school in jeans and a leather motorcycle jacket and played guitar in a cult band called TISM (This Is Serious Mum). They were basically anonymous because they played their gigs with paper bags on their heads. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TISM

Promo pic:

They upgraded to latex masks for this special photo shoot.

My teacher is the guy in the middle. The frontman.

Knowing anyone in TISM is a huge deal or rather knowing who they are.

We were all sworn to secrecy never to reveal his identity.

I heard him interviewed on the radio a couple of months ago and I'm in the car screaming "OMG it's Mr..........!!!!!!"

That thing looks sublime, Glow. Very voluptuous and requiring of fine handling, by the looks of it.

Oh, it will definitely get what it's desperately asking for : some intense finger picking.

Grrrrrrr............

You do just that.....give that girl all the fingering she needs.

My blue and cream Wallys are getting posted out on Friday, WHOO HOOO!! BACK TO FURRY KANGOLS, JAMAICAN WALLABEES, MY BACK IN ON THE WALL, BOMBIN' DEVILS WITH TRICK-KNOWLEDGY, MY HEART IS COLD LIKE RUSSIA, GOT JERKED AT THE SOURCE AWARDS, NEXT YEAR TWO hooray for tolerance!Z COMIN' WITH SWORDS!!!!!!!!!!

Nice!

I was wondering what you were talking about for a moment

Admit it, you were scared to look at the previous page in case Glow had posted a pic of a very impressive appendage, right?

I wasn't scared - I was desperately clicking through

Yeah, on second thoughts my post would be more appropriate for a Russian mail order bride.

And mygnr is absorbed, even more, into the British Empire - yet, more indecipherable lingo to confuse Americans with.

I looooove leather at the moment. I just did a tally on the number of leather garments I bought in the last 18 months and I'm at 8. A combination of skirts (3), dresses (1), tops (1), shorts (1) and jackets (2).

When it comes to men's leather jackets I like: colours (pref. not black) and details, be it pockets, panelling and zips or buttons. I really like this one:

I was wondering what you were talking about for a moment

Admit it, you were scared to look at the previous page in case Glow had posted a pic of a very impressive appendage, right?

That thing looks sublime, Glow. Very voluptuous and requiring of fine handling, by the looks of it.

I'm so glad summer is over and I can start wearing the good shit again. Shorts and polos get boring as fuck.

Lol! I'm totally celebrating the start of spring because I can FINALLY start wearing fun dresses again! I'm so fucking sick of wearing tailored looks. Women's winter clothes are so boring IMO. Except for this awesome gold brocade skirt I bought and a multi colour sequin top, but you can't wear them too often because the next thing everyone is going....."here she comes in that gold skirt/sequin top..........AGAIN!"

Short skirts, dresses, shorts, playsuits......here I come!!!

Edit: the only things I will be sad to have to put away for 5 months is my boots, especially my over the knee boots.

Loving the olive green one, Len.

For some reason I gravitate towards the colours, not black, when it comes to a quilted jacket. I think it's because it's more in keeping with the whole 'hunting' look. Green, brown, navy all work a treat. The original Barbour jacket I wanted was a dark purple and it was sublime () but I think purple is more of a women's colour when it comes to quilted jackets. I doubt they even make that colour in the men's range really when I think about it.

Go for a colour, Mags.

I want the one you posted, Red. The one I posted is Barbour too.

Well that's confirmed your good taste, sir. I couldn't tell from the pic what the label was.

I was going to buy a Barbour jacket, in fact I was desperately trying to get one a few years ago but at the time none of the online retailers would ship to Australia, including the Barbour website. I was trying so hard to give them the $300 + shipping it was going to cost me! Instead I happened to be at Zara and they had an awesome knock off with lovely corduroy details on the shoulders (very 'hunting-in-the-English-countryside' kind of look) PLUS a sleeveless version. I bought the sleeved jacket in olive green for $130 and the sleeveless version in navy for $80! And with the $90 left over a very cute spangly little party dress.

I bought those jackets about 3 years ago and still wore the shit out of them this winter and I imagine I will do so next year and the year after as well. In fact the weather is just getting warmer now so I'll switch to the sleeveless version when walking the dog. I've had 3 people stop me and ask me where I got them. Zara had an even better version this year and I reckon they should give me a free dress or something for sending business their way which they otherwise wouldn't have had.

Fucking love quilted jackets. They're timeless, practical and really stylish.

Edit: took some pics:

I was actually hoping this thread was a discussion on My World.......views, opinions, etc. I think the general consensus is that it's a pile of shit but I actually quite like it. I'm glad it only goes for 1 minute and 25 seconds though.

And no one can say I'm going off topic here.....the thread title is deliberately misleading.

I love quilted jackets. I have a couple and they've been great over the cooler months. I think Barbour make the best. I like this men's style with pockets:

The only teacher I ever had any respect for was my Year 11 English teacher. He would come to school in jeans and a leather motorcycle jacket and played guitar in a cult band called TISM (This Is Serious Mum). They were basically anonymous because they played their gigs with paper bags on their heads.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TISM

Promo pic:

They upgraded to latex masks for this special photo shoot.

My teacher is the guy in the middle. The frontman.

Guess what I'm doing now?

My Nike bag was too small to fit my belt, bottles, clothes and books, so I invested in this bag:

It even has shoulder straps, which makes it a lot more comfortable for my shoulders and back to carry all my crap around.

One doesn't 'invest' in a North Face (100% nylon Made In Vietnam) bag. Just sayin'

Merci beaucoup, Monsieur Drama.