This thing about MC's...
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... sometimes doesn't make sense!
For example, in my workplace, our supervisor makes it very very clear that if you take more than 7 MC's in six months, we'll have our alternate 5-day week privilege revoked for the next six months! Also, the number of days of medical leave we take are taken into account in our performance appraisals and other stuff.
So, what's been happening is, we have ONE colleague who's very ill, fever and a bad case of the sniffles. He doesn't want to take an MC because we're already shorthanded and he's afraid of displeasing his boss. So, fine, two days later, another TWO colleagues fall ill with the same symptoms, so that makes it THREE of us in total. Five days later, the three are STILL sick, worse, now, there are at least six of us who are now down with flu or pre-flu!!
Isn't it ridiculous??!! If someone falls ill, PLEASE let them take their medical leave, stay home and recuperate!!! They seem to prefer that we don't take MC at all, then return to work, make mistakes, give substandard work, and spread the illness around!!
Where's the logic?? All this productivity talk is sickening, literally!! How productive can a sick person be at work?
If they're scared that we are pretending to be ill and 'faking' illness, then, are they calling into question the qualifications of the GP's who issue the MC's? And by that, are they indirectly questioning the efficacy of NUS' Medical Faculty, if that's where the GP's graduated from?
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Schools nowadays scared students fake illness, cannot accept parents' letter.Originally posted by Rhonda:... sometimes doesn't make sense!
For example, in my workplace, our supervisor makes it very very clear that if you take more than 7 MC's in six months, we'll have our alternate 5-day week privilege revoked for the next six months! Also, the number of days of medical leave we take are taken into account in our performance appraisals and other stuff.
So, what's been happening is, we have ONE colleague who's very ill, fever and a bad case of the sniffles. He doesn't want to take an MC because we're already shorthanded and he's afraid of displeasing his boss. So, fine, two days later, another TWO colleagues fall ill with the same symptoms, so that makes it THREE of us in total. Five days later, the three are STILL sick, worse, now, there are at least six of us who are now down with flu or pre-flu!!
Isn't it ridiculous??!! If someone falls ill, PLEASE let them take their medical leave, stay home and recuperate!!! They seem to prefer that we don't take MC at all, then return to work, make mistakes, give substandard work, and spread the illness around!!
Where's the logic?? All this productivity talk is sickening, literally!! How productive can a sick person be at work?
If they're scared that we are pretending to be ill and 'faking' illness, then, are they calling into question the qualifications of the GP's who issue the MC's? And by that, are they indirectly questioning the efficacy of NUS' Medical Faculty, if that's where the GP's graduated from?
This drives me wild, even if students fake illness, their parents is not worried that their child is skipping school, why the school worry? Also parents pay school fees cannot have the right to decide if they want their child to go or not go to school meh? -
me not bother with MC...havent need one since 10yrs+ ago
alternate 5-day week privilege...is a PRIVILEGE.....it is not against the law to revoke privilege....just that the after taste is bitter
do you office have union you can air your concern
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I think aft SARS, ppl just back to their own self
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Well, parents pay SUBSIDISED school fees.Originally posted by The man who was death:Schools nowadays scared students fake illness, cannot accept parents' letter.
This drives me wild, even if students fake illness, their parents is not worried that their child is skipping school, why the school worry? Also parents pay school fees cannot have the right to decide if they want their child to go or not go to school meh?
Anyway, getting an MC is so easy, just pay $4 for consultation and 70cents for the panadol. So cheap. You want more days you just ask the doctor for it lor. During O lvl year, I always take MC for 2 days, stay at hopme play games and study,becos got nothing new to learn in school liao. My medical expense last year was $58. All paid for by my insurance! 
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the only time i take mc is when i get injured
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you don't know the half of it...
one of my staff, afraid that they'll revoke his Performance Bonus, worked sick... he would refuse to go on medical leave..
guess what? he died..
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its unhealthy.Originally posted by kops21:me not bother with MC...havent need one since 10yrs+ ago
alternate 5-day week privilege...is a PRIVILEGE.....it is not against the law to revoke privilege....just that the after taste is bitter
do you office have union you can air your concern
better to be sick on and off. -
companies at times push their workers too hardOriginally posted by the Bear:you don't know the half of it...
one of my staff, afraid that they'll revoke his Performance Bonus, worked sick... he would refuse to go on medical leave..
guess what? he died..
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and i don't even work in a company!Originally posted by StarPuppy:companies at times push their workers too hard
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oh... i also blame the doctors...
you get influenza...
on TV, the docs say you need 7 days rest...
they tell me i'll start to feel better in 3 days..
and they give me 1 day medical leave.. -
Unfair bosses man..Sick take MC get rest and be fully fit for work,what for go to work half fit den spread the germs around..Crazy..
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Eh tell your friend to go spread the virus to your supervisor,den see how he will react..LOL..
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never complain to the work assiociation or CASE meh?
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I would suggest all of you should go to the same doctor and seek advie form him immediately. With so many people taking MC with the same doctor and at the same day, you have a strong case against your boss.
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no choice lah i guess if the company change policy alot of pple will just take fake mc thats what the system is for to prevent that unfortunately ti has side effects i wonder which is worse though
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Err on the side of caution.
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Exactly lah! nothing to learn liao still dun want to let us go. So what if parents pay susidised fees, they still pay what and do we deserved to get treated worse than a prisoner? Students in US probably get more off days than us even though they have compulsory attendance cos during winter months, they probably dun have to go to school every time it snows too much. And they dun go back to school during holidays cos their holidays are after the school year ends, not like our june holidays.Originally posted by shade343:Well, parents pay SUBSIDISED school fees. Anyway, getting an MC is so easy, just pay $4 for consultation and 70cents for the panadol. So cheap. You want more days you just ask the doctor for it lor. During O lvl year, I always take MC for 2 days, stay at hopme play games and study,becos got nothing new to learn in school liao. My medical expense last year was $58. All paid for by my insurance!
Why u so stupid? still get mc? I just didn't go to school for the whole week before the school ends and before that i even missed some prelim papers. They can't do anything to u what, already leaving school liao.
Alternate 5 day week but the minimum working hrs is still like what? 44hrs? it makes no difference at all. The govt should cut down on the minimum working hours -
i can't purposely go and get sick rtOriginally posted by dragg:its unhealthy.
better to be sick on and off.
Late last year i went to visit the company doctor, not bcos i'm sick, but bcos i have this backache that refuse to go away. Maybe i have pulled a muscle during exercise
The Doc say, since this is a muscle issue, he can't help me. Go and take an X-ray and wait 4 the report. We will called you if we have anything to report. I waited and waited....weeks/months and given up waiting....apparently waste my trip there.... -
i think sometimes you can't blame the business.
afterall, when you signed the dotted line, you agree to their medical benefits.
business have to protect themselves.
Remember, running a business is not a running a welfare org. Everything comes down to profit margins, overheads and turnover.
If you don't like what they offer, resign. Like I did with my previous company, i found that it's a shame even for a medical group.
But what I don't understand is, are you so hard up for money that you are willing to sacrifice your life/health?
Remember that money can earn back. But never your health/life. -
ronnie, it's tough when you are about 45, the sole breadwinner of your family, and without the necessary skills to start again...
there is no way the person can quit..
that's what happened to the guy at my place who died..
$$ can be earned again, yes... but when that $$ is necessary to put food on the table of your family now, people will go to work sick.. -
think my bosses starting to feel it when i take mc liao.... 2 wks ago i kenna stomach flu, running a fever... i took 1 day mc and at noon my boss called me. wanted me to go into the office cos no one (senior staff) is ard... gosh all he need me to do is to sit thr in the office and make sure the rest do their work!!! gosh i'm a designer not a nanny!!
next mth my designer will leave.... i can't imagine wat happen if i take mc or leave.... no one else to cover my stuffs.... die lah? -
You are in a caring and sharing society mah..
You got virus must go office and share it with your colleagues
Boss sick then boss have to rest because they are not willing to share
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Because If I dont give MC, attendance will be affected and it will be reflected in my testimonial...anyway, all my medical fees being paid by insurance ...Originally posted by The man who was death:Exactly lah! nothing to learn liao still dun want to let us go. So what if parents pay susidised fees, they still pay what and do we deserved to get treated worse than a prisoner? Students in US probably get more off days than us even though they have compulsory attendance cos during winter months, they probably dun have to go to school every time it snows too much. And they dun go back to school during holidays cos their holidays are after the school year ends, not like our june holidays.
Why u so stupid? still get mc? I just didn't go to school for the whole week before the school ends and before that i even missed some prelim papers. They can't do anything to u what, already leaving school liao.
Alternate 5 day week but the minimum working hrs is still like what? 44hrs? it makes no difference at all. The govt should cut down on the minimum working hours -