OT:Ever been fired for being sick?

[Ellie]

Just out of curiosity has anybody here ever been canned for being ill? I am going on my second day  now. If any one is wondering how can I be so sick if I am online.
I am so addicted to Badmovies.Org I need it everyday...geez that the delirium talking.

[raj]

Nope.  Why would you worry about it if you're only on your second day.  It isn't that easy to fire someone just for being sick, especially if it's just a couple of days.

[Eirik]

Not sick, per se, but I got fired from a summer house-painting job because I blew out my knee and couldn't stand for lengthy periods.  I tried to gut it out but it really slowed me down.  Can't blame my boss really.

[Menard]

Being online is a good way to pass the time while you are sick. When I was ill about two weeks ago, I got online to have something to do, but I still felt miserable.

Get Well Soon

[Scott]

You can be online or work while sick as long as you're near the bathroom. : ) Remember the great thing about it is that the choice is yours.

[Menard]

If I am ill, as long as I can walk, I would prefer to work, it gives me something to do. That is of course providing that I am not going to be around a lot of people as to not give somebody else the same thing I have.

[Jack Corbett]

I have to start work later on this year... I want to work at Blockbuster because I know where everything in the store is and I know which videos work and which ones don't. (No, I'm serious.)

[ulthar]

Yes. My freshman year in college, I ended up being hospitalized for a week. This and the illness leading up to it caused me to miss quite a bit of work. After the okey dokey from the doctors, I went back to work.  Sometime, a few weeks iirc, later, I got a flu type bug and had to call in sick, with PLENTY of notice for the manager to find a replacement.  He fired me over the phone.

Got another job within a week, and now I own my own company.  So, hang in there....

[Master Blaster]

Yes but a slightly different scenario than ulthar's. I'd been missing alot of work sometimes for legitamate reasons but usually because I didnt feel like showing up. I'd call in and say I was sick, or my car wouldnt start, or my house was on fire, great grandma died, CHUD infestation, whatever. I finally really got sick and by then my boss had had it with pulling up my slack, so when I got back he canned me. I've since got my act together. I just had some growing up to do at the time.

[odinn7]

I worked with a guy about 10 years ago who had about 37 grandmothers. 2 or 3 times a year one of them would die. Could never really figure that one out.

[Master Blaster]

He musnt know the system. A proper slacker mixes up excuses. It goes illness, emergency, injury, death in family. You can mix up the category order but never use the same one twice in a row, and most certainly not the same excuse twice whithin the same category.

[Jack Corbett]

...37 grandmothers...?

[raj]

lets see, there can be the egg donor's mom, the sperm donor's mom, the baby oven's mom, and then the adoptive mom's mom, stepgrandmoms. . .  If the kid bounces around enough you could get to 37.  Bit of a stretch though.  I'd stick with 7 or 8.