the common cold?
It is surely the single biggest overall cause of illness, discomfort and loss of working days around, and what are they doing about it? Eh? Nothing, as far as I can see. Have a lemsip. And a box of tissues a day.
It's almost as if the industry is set up to manage ailments rather than actually cure them. :sherlock:
Yes, I know they mutate and shít but still, is the humble virus really cleverer than our finest medical researchers? Sort it aaaahht!!
I believe manthe****up has been on the market for yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Every time I go into work with heavy symptoms, which is my usual approach, I get told off and sent home lest I infect everybody else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
You'd love it here - people get a doctor's note for a week off if they have a sniffle on a FridayQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I am waiting for a cure for my ear problem I don't seem to be getting better.
I don't trust the doctors anymore if they had given me the antibiotics the first time I went I wouldn't have had to go to hospital with blood coming out of my ears :-(
On the bright side my bleeding ear is a slash guitar rock and roll sort of ailment
:cloud9:
Sent home - Jesus wept. Surely you just tell them to mind their own business and you'll carry on with your work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Yes, because that's exactly how employees talk to CEOs. :r0lleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Prick.
Best way I felt guilty being off last week. I never call in sick but had no choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
annoyingly I had to call in each day to say I am not coming in.
hello still sick maybe tomorrow bye.
Rich works for the NHS - efffectively his CEO is Jeremy Hunt. He should talk to him like thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
You should never feel guilty about phoning in sick when you are, pQuote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
I'm in Private enterprise now, LA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I've never had a day sick in my life, mind you.
It's a virus and cannot be cured, merely suppressed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Thank you Dick
My apologies, r. Still just wanted to call Hunt a **** tbf. I haven't missed a day for illness in almost two years. And even then with a knee swollen to the size of a basketball, I did some work from home, but I appreciate if some people are sniffing/coughing all the time, you get well quicker if you take a day to just chillQuote:
Originally Posted by Rich
My job in Basel is with Novartis.
Pretty awesome site...it’s like a small city. Just one spectacular office block after another. On my last visit I discovered they also have their own hospital too.
You see stuff like that all the time but not for just 1 company.
Found the Swiss to be a most welcoming bunch. A splendid company to work for.
Oh and that thing about them and watches...to put into some context...my UBER driver was sporting a Rolex GMT Pan Am!!
Lol! My sister worked there in quite a senior role up until a year or so ago. She said the worst days were when they were serving Raclette in the canteen as the whole office would stink of it all day. She came out of the experience with a powerful hatred of the Swiss.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
If you want to save yourself a few bob, live over the border in Alsace rather than in Basel proper. Swiss wages/French prices = *******FREE MONEY!!!*******$
Mind you, that would make you and redgunamo the only two brothers in rural Alsace.
This sounds like defeatist talk to me. Have we not been to the moon? Can we not find a way to vanquish a virus?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Apparently not. 10 years now I have been bringing kids to doctors to be told "it's a virus, nothing we can do. That will be €60 please".Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Sometimes the sum charged changes.
Manage the temperature and drink lots of fluids. :nod:
:nod: I wrapped up warm, went to a football match and drank six pints last night. Feeling a lot better today.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Do you not have a National Health Service or equivalent in the Irish Free State there?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Only down side being that 6 pints is roughly 12-14 units of alcohol so in one glory filled evening you used up your entire weekly allowance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
No, we all pay for each visit to the doctor and/or hospital unless one is in possession of a medical card.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I then have private insurance for my family and I, subsidised through work, from which I can claim medical expenses at year end. I got about €230 back from them for approx. €400 spend just last week.
Finally then we can claim on prescription costs which are not covered by private insurance.
In summary, Free State my hole.
NOOOOOOO! But, but, but... I've been constantly told that the only alternative to an NHS-style completely-free-at-the-point-of-use system is a US-style system where everyone has to have exorbitantly-expensive insurance or they're left to die like dogs in the street. As I understand it from The Guardian, if you aren't rich and get ill in any country that doesn't have the glorious and holy NHS (ALL HAIL TO IT!) you will simply die.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
You are peddling fake news with your talk of a rational and sensible healthcare system that requires some people to actually pay for stuff, but whose costs are offset by employer-funded insurance schemes. For shame!
Christ! What a chip pisser. That's Pokster's job.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Anyway, since when have you been concerned about weekly units.