Doctors can provide notes, Cass. Also, you should check in with your company's policy about 'temporary disability', which at least in my company's case, doesn't count against your sick days.
You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Aug 28, 2005 10:00:51 am PDT #1771 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Emily - Aug 28, 2005 10:07:13 am PDT #1772 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I should say, I suppose I prefer the constant commercials to the usual "We don't have any new news yet, so we're going to randomly speculate about completely unrelated alarmist crap."
Lee - Aug 28, 2005 10:11:04 am PDT #1773 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Happy Birthday Casper!
God, Katrina is scary, even by hurricane news standards. I hope all of our NOLAistas and their relatives are okay.
Cass - Aug 28, 2005 10:15:08 am PDT #1774 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Doctors can provide notes, Cass.My doctor's office actually faxed a note to the company on Friday when he found out I was at work (In my defense, he forgot to mention on Thursday that I should be on home rest), the HR people have the documentation and my boss knows about it.
I just honestly fear that my boss is going to make life a little more difficult for me if I actually take the time. I offered to do some work from home because I can do anything email-y and actually manage the projects but she dismissed that idea. It's frustrating.
I'm going to call her later to talk about it and hopefully she'll be a whole lot less of a stressbomb today.
Lee - Aug 28, 2005 10:16:10 am PDT #1775 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Cass, how long have you been there now?
flea - Aug 28, 2005 10:19:21 am PDT #1776 of 10002
information libertarian
Casper decided to celebrate being 2 by staging The Great Nap Battle of 2005. She's just fallen asleep on the couch (after nearly 2 hours of attempts), and we're expecting people in 45 minutes. I am drinking a big iced coffee and considering inserting Kahlua.
She is long and lanky - we haven't had a checkup in a while, but I measured her against the wall about a month ago and got 35", which is a smidge taller than I was at that age. Based on "double your height at age 2 to get adult height" she'd be 5'10", but then, by that measure I'd be 2 inches shorter than I actually am. She's several pounds heavier than I was at her age. She's consistently been 90% for height and 75% for weight, though to my eye she's gotten thinner lately.
Anybody got a good site with detailed histories of earlier hurricanes? I'd like to read up on Camille, Gloria which I witnessed in CT, and whoever it was that hit New England in the 1930s that my grandmother drove a car through.
Cass - Aug 28, 2005 10:22:04 am PDT #1777 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Started there in April. Became official, and done with the probationary period, on July 18. Which is when my health insurance was supposed to have kicked in...
As opposed to the fiasco that did happen where the coverage wasn't in place until last Thursday, which is when I finally got in and saw my doctor. Frankly, I would have gone Monday given the chance and likely my back would have healed much faster if I had started treatment then.
This, in my bitter bitter heart, is partially their fault.
Steph L. - Aug 28, 2005 10:26:52 am PDT #1778 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
My doctor's office actually faxed a note to the company on Friday when he found out I was at work (In my defense, he forgot to mention on Thursday that I should be on home rest), the HR people have the documentation and my boss knows about it.
I just honestly fear that my boss is going to make life a little more difficult for me if I actually take the time.
Man, that's such bullshit on your boss's part. (Though I don't think *my* bosses *really* believed how badly my back was injured until I had the surgery scheduled; I think they thought I was just being a whiner who would take any excuse to miss work.)
Still, if your doctor actually wrote a letter saying that you *shouldn't* be at work, can't your HR department bring the smackdown on your boss? Even a little?
Lee - Aug 28, 2005 10:28:57 am PDT #1779 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
You should check their policy about sick time and even short term disability then. Unfortunately, the federal medical leave laws don't kick in for a year after you are hired, and most companies follow that, but some have it kick in earlier.
Either way, I hope your boss stops being a jackhole about it.
Cass - Aug 28, 2005 10:36:19 am PDT #1780 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Yeah, when I said I was going to try to be back on Monday because I felt like I needed to be, it was made clear that I should take the time if I needed to. And technically, sure, I can take the time.
But apparently boss had a cracked rib once and *she* came to work... While taking demoral... Yes, you can roll your eyes here.
She thought I seemed like I wasn't in *that* much pain. Which, yeah. Because I loathe people knowing any of my weaknesses. And I would go into the bathroom, lock the door and then cry for a few minutes and try to breathe through the spasms and pain.
Maybe I will call her later and her mood from Friday will have passed. It's much relieved but that strange spot that was causing all of this mess has twinges today. If it doesn't stop, I am taking tomorrow off because being at work Friday definitely caused more problems. I like my back far more than I like my job.
It just shouldn't be this hard.