In a message to Anthony about Comment From Dieter, Brenton said:

AM> Yeah, there aren't many people who don't take a 'sicky' one way or
  > another.  A lot consider it their unofficial right to do so too...

BV> Ahem !!!

Present company excluded?  ;)

BV> While doing my apprenticeship, I would always skip tech every second
BV> week and take at least one day a week off. Not because I thought it
BV> was "my right" or nufin. I was just a 15 year old dick-head that
BV> didn't know what he really wanted to do with his life. Well, that's
BV> not really right, I knew that I wanted to do electronics, I just
BV> didn't ever get out of "school mode". Fortunately my service manager
BV> and the MD were more determined to break me than I was to break
BV> myself and they persevered with me.

Same thing Brenton, you had no sense of the significance of the effect
of the 'sickies' you were taking, either to you, the company you
worked for, or the country as a whole for that matter, no?

BV> They won. One day (half way though my third year) I woke up and
BV> realised what an absolute moron I had been. I haven't had one day
BV> off sick since then. Seriously, in over 10 years, I haven't had one
BV> day as a "sickie", I may have had a few where I have genuinely been
BV> dying, but you could count them on your fingers.

I've had one or two days off where I have actually been sick in the
last 5 years, and no "sickies".  Same for the schools years...  We are
a minority none the less.

Hey, does this mean we can start a Minority Group to pass ridiculous
discriminatory legislation?

'tnt, Amfony.


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