Shocking News - people get sick mostly around weekends

[bouche]

I'd love to see an audit of gov't employee's overall sick patterns.

City employees not only took an average of 10.6 sick days in 2007 — costing taxpayers almost $28 million — but most of them appear to have taken them so they coincided with the start and end of the week.

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2009/11/25/11927211.html

[ollie]

Didn't you miss every Monday during the summer of '07?

[Northern Wish]

Over 2 days higher than the TO average is bad, but running a business while out on sick leave is deplorable.

Just wait till they start to analyze stats from the bus strike period!!

[Davey Boy 2.0]

Ode to Bouche

Back in the summer of 2007

my mondays mornings were a slice of heaven

and french class always meant a nap

coz after lunch i never went back

Fridays too i tippled a bit

my office has a liquor store near it

beer and wine and cheese til 5:00

good thing my wife was around to drive

[PMatt]

I hear a lot of complaints on open lines and in the news about sick day usage in the government, but we get 9.someodd hours of sick leave per month.

Couldn't one gather that this implies that we can take 9.someodd hours off a month sick. So the fact that the city used only 10 days on average per year on sick leave....thats under the alotted sick leave given.

I don't come close to using 9.someodd sick leave hours a month and I understand that its meant for times when you are really sick....but it seems as though its the nature of the Union beast beit for good or for bad.

[Davey Boy 2.0]

late in to work & early to leave

makes vacation days a real breeze

coz that way you don't have to break the habit

of waking up to an alarm clock & going batshit

punctuality of course is the robber of time

but you don't really care when you're sipping wine

going to parties and leaving so soon

coz sometimes it's hard to change your tune

when your playroom beckons it's hard to resist

(I'll take a vodka, just with a twist)

counting your points and watching your weight

can take precious time out of your busy day

[color:#cccccc](apologies, Mike, just couldn't resist)

Edited November 26, 2009 by Guest
coz

[phishtaper]

im home sick today.

[Northern Wish]

I am leaving early (now) and taking tomorrow off. Seriously.....

I am so sick I need some Phish.

[bradm]

I've been on feeling-just-peachy-thank-you-very-much leave since September 18, 2008.

Aloha,

Brad

[bouche]

Didn't you miss every Monday during the summer of '07?

what, are you working for HR now?

next question: Is Davey-Boy writing poetry at work?

Edited November 26, 2009 by Guest

[Davey Boy 2.0]

I was on my break

[arcane]

There's a plan: I'll take my antibiotics on Mondays and Fridays.