Welsh female civil servants are the sickest

[Goatfell]

You mean like a cover for knobs?

That's probably the reason for many contracts when you come to think about it

[vetran]

A head teacher I used to know complained bitterly about that situation ("unsettling for the kids etc") and would deliberately avoid recruiting anyone she thought might get pregnant.

A newly wed lass stood no chance of getting a job at that skool. I don't think that was the intention of the legislation, but that was how it worked out.

must admit it can be quite challenging when you have them falling pregnant weekly. we have one all female team (if you discount the chap who bats for the other side) and there was a spate "I'm pregnant!" and almost the entire team were replaced by temps. We even had a chair women of child bearing age weren't allowed to sit in.

[northernladuk]

I had 2 months off with a nervous breakdown. Then worked like a Trojan since. Quite looking forward to some bench time.

You mean like a cover for knobs?

[Sysman]

Wife is a nurse and works with someone who had baby - came back for week went off sick for a year or so. Not getting paid at all now but of course her job is open if she ever wants to come back.

But it means they can't recruit anyone else too.

A head teacher I used to know complained bitterly about that situation ("unsettling for the kids etc") and would deliberately avoid recruiting anyone she thought might get pregnant.

A newly wed lass stood no chance of getting a job at that skool. I don't think that was the intention of the legislation, but that was how it worked out.

[darmstadt]

In my first job we had one of the girls from DP join the team and one weekend we knew she had something planned and, yep, she did a sickie. It was just for 3 days mind you but it was the excuse that got us: chickenpox

[suityou01]

Back in my permie days there was an IT trainer. This was a new role within the organisation and it was created by the IT Manager. People were dubious. She came in and made lots of little pamphlets on how to do stuff in word, excel etc. A room was partitioned off for her, and turned in an IT Training lab.

More pamphlets. Then she got involved with our software rollout and went off on the long term sick with stress.

About once every 6 months she'd pop in, say hello and then go again. She would always ring in and say she was WFH. Thing is, in order to do this she would need to use the VPN and log into say the UAT system or whatever system she was working on. And we as developers had our "sicknote.sql" that we would run a few times a day and point and laugh when there was no evidence of any activity.

The IT training lab became a dusty shrine to her. The IT Manager one day left without any warning. No announcement was given other than "he left".

Odd company.

[psychocandy]

Wife is a nurse and works with someone who had baby - came back for week went off sick for a year or so. Not getting paid at all now but of course her job is open if she ever wants to come back.

But it means they can't recruit anyone else too.

[suityou01]

should have said Suity is excluded !

Funnyish stories please.

Apology accepted.

[vetran]

Nah you failed the Mails entry criteria; whats her house worth

maybe the people will have you

with my spelling I'm better off at the Graunaid.

[vetran]

I had 2 months off with a nervous breakdown. Then worked like a Trojan since. Quite looking forward to some bench time.

should have said Suity is excluded !

Funnyish stories please.

[suityou01]

I had 2 months off with a nervous breakdown. Then worked like a Trojan since. Quite looking forward to some bench time.

[MicrosoftBob]

I managed two months off as a contractor when I got an infection in my leg, by the time I went to the doctors my whole lower leg had swollen up

That'll teach me to ignore something and carry on working, I wouldn't have lost so many billable days if I'd gone straight to my doctors

[Dallas]

Nah you failed the Mails entry criteria; whats her house worth

maybe the people will have you

[vetran]

Stress absence up as sick days fall - UK / News / Evening Express

The percentage of hours lost to sickness in private firms was 1.8%, compared with 2.9% in the public sector, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Workers in London had the lowest percentage of hours lost to sickness, at 1.5%, while the highest were in the East Midlands, Wales and the North East at 2.4%.
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Men generally have lower sickness absence rates than women, although the new figures show falls among all workers and all age groups since 1993.

see what I did? I'll be writing for the mail before you know it!

so best sickie stories please.

Mine is a lady of Indian extraction who had managed about 80 days off, the company secretary (also a female Indian) popped round to see her and found her dressed in a Sari only suitable for a wedding. The company paid out to avoid the unfair dismissal tribunal.