Reply to: Can you be canned for being sick?

[BrilloPad]

I avoid human contact and thus have not contracted any airborne diseases. Invoicing capability for the last 3 years has remained steady at 100%.

So do I. I only talk to the permie scum. well shout in fact.....

[Flubster]

I avoid human contact and thus have not contracted any airborne diseases. Invoicing capability for the last 3 years has remained steady at 100%.

[AlfredJPruffock]

'Flu (short for influenza - nothing like being pedantic is there ?)

Actually, the 'flu jab isn't specified by the government, but by a more world wide organisation - WHO or somesuch.

It's really only a concern in the very young and elderly, and those groups should have the jab. The rest of us should just grin and bear it. And lose a lot of money in the process like I did recently.

As an ex-pharmacologist, I have to say that people these days are striving to be too germ-free (in a general sense). All this faffing about with kill this'n' that sprays makes us less tolerant to build our own defenses against infection naturally. Take a look at all the reactions that people have to everyday substances - people: we need a bit of dirt in our lives to promote our immune system.
I grew up on a farm drinking unpasteurised milk and it never did me any harm. Oo-ar !

I totally agree with you on this one.

A wee bit of dirt does you good !


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[adestor]

'Flu (short for influenza - nothing like being pedantic is there ?)

Actually, the 'flu jab isn't specified by the government, but by a more world wide organisation - WHO or somesuch.

It's really only a concern in the very young and elderly, and those groups should have the jab. The rest of us should just grin and bear it. And lose a lot of money in the process like I did recently.

As an ex-pharmacologist, I have to say that people these days are striving to be too germ-free (in a general sense). All this faffing about with kill this'n' that sprays makes us less tolerant to build our own defenses against infection naturally. Take a look at all the reactions that people have to everyday substances - people: we need a bit of dirt in our lives to promote our immune system.
I grew up on a farm drinking unpasteurised milk and it never did me any harm. Oo-ar !

[BrilloPad]

I get the flu jab most years : this is the first year I have had a cold in the same year I have had a flu jab.

[blacjac]

No it isn't.

A Flu jab will only protect agianst the particular strains of flu that the government think will be most prevelant that year.....

That's why you need a new jab each year. It works for me and the other contractors I know. If you had the jab, you would not have had flu and lost your money.

I've had the jab every year for the last 6 years, I get it free as I am diabetic.

Out of those 6 years I have had the flu in 3 of them.

The point I was making was that you seem to think the flu jab is a 100% effective at preventing you catching the flu in any given year.
However this simply is not the case as the government decides which strains of flu to inoculate against.
Only a moron would trust the government on this....

[Paddy]

Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry, I will only put things made by said industry in my body if I absolutely have to. Frankly, I would rather have 'flu.

When the pharmaceutical industry comes under the same headlights as the financial sector currently is - and believe me, eventually it will - people are going to be scared to death.

http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAwebFile.../1229502460226

Not forgetting that many people die from flu.

[PM-Junkie]

Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry, I will only put things made by said industry in my body if I absolutely have to. Frankly, I would rather have 'flu.

When the pharmaceutical industry comes under the same headlights as the financial sector currently is - and believe me, eventually it will - people are going to be scared to death.

[pmeswani]

That's why you need a new jab each year. It works for me and the other contractors I know. If you had the jab, you would not have had flu and lost your money.

The flu jab has its purposes. I have to take it, not because I am a contractor, but because I am diabetic. In the past few years since taking the jab, I have been lucky not to get the stronger strain of the Flu. Yes, there are a few strains out there, but all you are set to lose is £10 at your local pharmacist. If you don't take the jab and are unlucky to get the flu, you would lose a lot more. However, it's up to individual contractors to make the risk assessment and decide whether they need the jab or not. Personally, I think it is a bit late in the day to consider taking it now. It should have been done back in October / November.

[Paddy]

No it isn't.

A Flu jab will only protect agianst the particular strains of flu that the government think will be most prevelant that year.....

That's why you need a new jab each year. It works for me and the other contractors I know. If you had the jab, you would not have had flu and lost your money.

[blacjac]

I don’t have sympathy for people having flu because it is avoidable with a £10 anti-flu jab. All contractors should get one.

No it isn't.

A Flu jab will only protect agianst the particular strains of flu that the government think will be most prevelant that year.....

[Beefy198]

Working your way through sickness is one of the problems of this country.

Take a day off and rest and you're likely to feel better in half the time.

[Paddy]

All,

I was off last week for 2 days and this week for 2 days, I sent a mail to my manager explaining that I had what was probably the worst case of flu for the last 4-5 years.

Came into work yesterday, and client is thinking of canning me for lack of output (my project is on hold till 6/1/09) and they are aware of the reasons why, and because they are worried aboout my excessive sick leave?

Eh?

Can they do this?

I don’t have sympathy for people having flu because it is avoidable with a £10 anti-flu jab. All contractors should get one.

[tim123]

Yes, they can.

It's just happened to me because I was off sick.

There's very little you can do, if anything, apart from to sit back, put your feet up, enjoy Christmas and look for a new gig.

And I'm sure that they would have much preferred you to turn up, infect all the perms and then have them each take a week off.

Morons!

Sorry to hear of your bad luck

tim

[lukemg]

One morning I gashed my leg after falling on a glass bedside lamp. It didn't hurt much but was badly cut. I bandaged it up and went in, the blood soaked through the bandage and I had to replace it 3 times. Stitches would probably have been a good idea but I didn't want the gap on my timesheet. Reckless and not sure I would do that these days, mind you only injury is splinters from the bench at the moment.