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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
postmanzach
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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Post by postmanzach »

f***s me off
Just go sick
If it’s just a minor cold obviously work on but a deep dark cough spluttering everywhere, surely the management should send them home? I said something but they said they couldn’t go sick because of a stage 2 possibility. Stage 2 ain’t even that bad really.
noggin1969
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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Post by noggin1969 »

People dying on their feet at ours , barking like feeding time at a seal sanctuary. Can see the place being like the Mary Celeste after Christmas.
Brandy
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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Post by Brandy »

Where I used to work management used to try and get posties to go in even if they were really poorly,couldnt they see that it could be spread round the office?! Then if you did go sick they would want you to go down to the office for an interview! You couldnt make it up! :d'oh!
aiden01
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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Post by aiden01 »

postmanzach wrote:f***s me off
Just go sick
If it’s just a minor cold obviously work on but a deep dark cough spluttering everywhere, surely the management should send them home? I said something but they said they couldn’t go sick because of a stage 2 possibility. Stage 2 ain’t even that bad really.
Stage 2 ain,t that bad really have you ever been on a stage 2 :hmmmm
Tinoblade
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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Post by Tinoblade »

postmanzach wrote:f***s me off
Just go sick
If it’s just a minor cold obviously work on but a deep dark cough spluttering everywhere, surely the management should send them home? I said something but they said they couldn’t go sick because of a stage 2 possibility. Stage 2 ain’t even that bad really.
I’m within my first year and can’t afford to live on SSP
Tman
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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Post by Tman »

Then there's the a*seholes who won't go sick as they're "saving my sick leave for days off when I feel better".
Fatboyslim
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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Post by Fatboyslim »

Best one I remember. Lad was on a stage-two. Dare not go sick. Caught some sort of Bubonic plague/flu. So, he struggled on...

He managed to spread it about - about 20 of us went off sick. Time? Christmas and New Year. Nobody questioned it - as management knew who had it. Surely common sense would decree, send him home. No. Must have cost 1000's.
Woody Guthrie
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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Post by Woody Guthrie »

Surely common sense would decree, send him home.


There are very few occasions where a manager can send you home against your will.
The possibility of you spreading around a bit of cold/flu isn't one of them.
Only dead fish follow the current
Sir Henry
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Post by Sir Henry »

Hence the prevalence of Norovirus in offices in winter. People are dropping like flies at our office.
"A third of the world's farmland is now useless due to soil degradation, yet we still keep producing mouths to feed. And what's you answer to that? Energy saving lightbulbs?"
scoobydo79
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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Post by scoobydo79 »

Yeah lol our office is like lookin round F—— Drs surgery. Coughing wheezing aneezing people with support bandages on knees
It’s a joke
CPTNemoUK
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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Post by CPTNemoUK »

All the staff that are on sick in my office got a lovely special delivery letter from the Dom.
FirstPost
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Post by FirstPost »

CPTNemoUK wrote:All the staff that are on sick in my office got a lovely special delivery letter from the Dom.
saying what?
aiden01
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Really ok people working with horrible coughs because they are afraid of getting a stage

Post by aiden01 »

FirstPost wrote:
CPTNemoUK wrote:All the staff that are on sick in my office got a lovely special delivery letter from the Dom.
saying what?
MERRY CHRISTMAS :arrrghhh
mattjo1@talktalk.net
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Post by mattjo1@talktalk.net »

Man up for Christ sake :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy
CPTNemoUK
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Post by CPTNemoUK »

aiden01 wrote:
FirstPost wrote:
CPTNemoUK wrote:All the staff that are on sick in my office got a lovely special delivery letter from the Dom.
saying what?
MERRY CHRISTMAS :arrrghhh
How did you know? Did you get one :left:. Personaly don't know but I'm guessing it's was threatening to get them back in.