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Juan H. Perry
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Jul 7th, 2010
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Are employmnet policies driving up the cost of healthcare by compelling employees to seek professional care for very mundane problems or face termination? Are the schools preparing youth to accept this employment practice?
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@pastorjoshuanation
Liberal and libertarian are from the same root word and when properly understood are nearly synonyms. Conservatives are sometimes call neo-liberal, but I won’t get into that.
I guess you have to ask yourself who liberty is for, the overwhelming majority of the people or just the top few percentage points?
@zthustra Lol…I think that she did the right thing there.
I did check for that pill that you alluded to and all that I could find was Xanax. :)
I’m not one to quit that easily. I do want to say though that I didn’t know that ‘liberal’ and ‘libertarian’ could be honestly put in the same sentence while describing the same person. I tend to lean toward the libertarian side myself…but on the conservative side.
@pastorjoshuanation
She went to work and puked up for them so they let her go home. I guess they didn’t want vomit in the cash box and fast emal bags.
If your not getting a full dose of offensiveness in the Bible discussions we are having, you probably get an extra dose in here. Maybe there is a pill you can take to make us atheist, humanist, liberal, lefty, libertarian, secular, whatevers more pallitable.
I seriously thank you for viewing and commenting and hanging in there.
In case you didn’t know, I’m a conservative, tea party, right-wing, evangelical, Christian, capitalist (and whatever else I missed in there) and I say that that is crazy and totally unfair! Luckily, we have a doctor’s office here in town that is open until 11 at night but not everyone is that lucky. Our health care system is not geared to help the ‘working man’ and it’s about to get worse. I feel for your daughter. Employers need to wake up and realize what they’re putting their workers through.
You have to go to one of those little medi-quick places located in some stores. A few weeks ago I went to one to get a note to go back to work. It cost me $69.00 to answer some questions, get my vitals taken, and get a piece of paper. That is a lot of money for some people. I have insurance, but that place didn’t take it. I could have traveled about 20 miles and used my insurance, but I would have to had an appointment. Who knows how long that would have taken.
@zthustra So very true. Luckily we have sick/personal days. So if something happens and you need a half day for something, then as long as there’s enough people in the office no one minds.
people have really lost common sense. I know employers try to do that to cut down on people playing hooky but they don’t realize on just how inconvenient that request is. If you are sick you are not going to feel up to looking for a doctor.
@SeruQuik
Also, as far as scheduling appointments go, my doctor seems to be strange that way. I normally have to schedule 45-60 days in advance to schedule a yearly physical, yet on a rare occurrence or two I HAVE been able to schedule same-day appointments when calling early in the morning. Luck of the draw in the end, though I think there are seasonal factors that play a role.
@SeruQuik
The person representing my employer reluctantly let it go, but I mean very reluctantly. I received no visible punishment other than my shame being bruised by walking right into a metal door. I wasn’t threatened with termination, but I was still urged to see a doctor regarding the issue right away. It seemed like they wanted to cover their butts liability-wise in case I had developed a concussion, which is fine and I understand that.
I had an experience along these lines roughly half a year ago where I banged my head against a metal door. Admittedly, it was my fault. I still feel stupid about how it happened but it happened all the same. Considering it happened on the job my employer called the next day and urged me to go to a hospital regarding the issue in case I may have developed a minor concussion. I told them that I had been self-monitoring my condition and felt safe in saying it wouldn’t be necessary.
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@SouthernRaisedAtheis
Amen! It would be reasonable to ask for a medical excuse if the employee called off for three days or more. And illness that severe likely justifies seeking professional medical care. Employers today have a short fuse and start talking about termination on the first missed day. It is to easy to replace an employee. Employees are disposable!
@cnxtrans
Fewer and fewer employers provide “paid” sick days. One of the advantages of hiring people as “part-time” is avoiding the costs or benefits like healthcare and sick days.
No, she would not have been paid for her day off. The problem for her employer is that the employee is paid so little that a day off without pay is no big loss to eht employee.
It’s hard to feel sorry for employers whose employment practices leave employees unmotivated to go to work so they call off sick.
hehe, yeah, you will catch some shit for this one. But, it’s yet another excellent video :)
I live in a relatively small town and one pretty much has to plan one’s illness about a week in advance to get an appointment. But if one is willing to sit in the office all day, you will maybe make it in. Luckily my job has health insurance and you only need a note from a doctor if you miss 3 days in a row.
in the US, do you usually get paid when you need to take a day sick leave ?
If not, why are they asking for a doctor’s note ?
Not to mention if something more serious than a stomach flu happens. I worked with a woman who had to have gallbladder surgery. She had to get a second job for a year to pay off the hospital bill.