I know a number of people who every time someone in their circle of friends catches Covid start furiously testing themselves. They must have God knows how many test kits stashed away in the loft that the ceiling should be sagging.
Now I’ve never tested myself once and for all I know, I may have actually had it, but are these people going to go on testing themselves till they die….?

The answer is in the subject;

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Has anyone who's tested positive seen a strange face pressed against the window or heard any unusual noises??

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Test positive and throw a sickie if they get paid for time of, if only statutory sick pay they will go work as I believe you don’t get nowt for the first 4 days ?

Very true Mr Jamie. My sons place was losing staff left right and centre, when it went to SSP no takers.

i started on the buses at coventry just after they brought in a system where you got paid even for the single days sickness. it was called a busby after the old telephone advert or as i called it dial a day. didn,t last too long after the abuse it got. says a lot for british white workers as it was them who abused the system not the asians or non british whites.

well its the usual hypocondriac suspects who will be doing this. the ones who in normal times filled up the doctors appointment lists day in day out. there medicine cupboard would put boots to shame. i just dusted off my old carburretor tester but all it showed me was i was running too rich.

A lad I worked with in the 70’s told me of a regular one day sickness abuser who phoned in with some strange illnesses for a day off but pushed his luck a bit too far when he phoned in with ‘a touch of polio’.

bit like the one i took in the early 70,s when on a late shift i decided to do a sicky to see a shit pools side get hammered in the league cup at rochdale. when coming in the next day to book on i was presented with a programme from the previous days game. the inspector in charge said i thought i,d bring you mine from last night till you have a spare in your collection. should have shrunk 6 inches and kept my gob shut at the game i suppose.

I'd never heard of it until a couple of years ago but Fibromyalgia is the new word for aches, pains, and fatigue amongst folk down here or "Fibro" as the lasses call it Is it just a southern thing?

if it isn,t i,m sure it will catch on quickly everywhere else for the usual suspects. waiting for some fancy name to be made up for just being bone bloody idle.

Correct me if I am wrong didn’t some employers possibly the Council where you were allowed a certain number of sick days every year which you could ‘take’ when ever ?

Some years back when I was a Sales Manager, I would spend a couple of days a week in the office.

One day the Personnel Manager asked me if I could go round to a local Pet Shop as he had reports that one of the warehouse staff who had been off sick with a bad back (and was receiving part payment for his wages) was working there behind the counter. He said that this chap would not recognise me and gave me a description of him so that, hopefully I could check this out.

I went into the shop and bought some goldfish food and yes, it was him who served me.

The next day he was asked to come into the office, didn't deny anything, and left with his P45 in his hand.

Furlough was the biggest scam ever, employers were claiming, the employees were still working but the money wasn’t being passed on to them to name one of the scams.
HMRC admit over £6 billion was claimed fraudulently, the said they may able to claim back £2 million.

No, the Council sick scheme doesn’t do that, there’s no need to, if you’re off sick, you’re off sick, but don’t milk it.

My dad worked at a local v. large engineering company. A bloke phoned in sick one morning and they sent someone round his straight away.
He was sacked before he got to the bottom of the ladder he was up.

A few years back didn’t the Council have to one of the highest records for employees being of sick in England ?

Don’t know mate, but….. the trouble with Councils, is who runs the Council and ‘interfere’ in the day to day running of what essentially a business not a social reflection of the ruling Party’s politics. Getting the sack was very difficult.

this is an argument the union and management used to have about people who were genuine about their inability to work. think at times they expected anyone who was sick to be in their bed and anything else held back their ability to get back to work. you could easily do one type of work where you are fine but not doing your job. part time taxi work seemed the choice of a few and driving an automatic power steering car was not driving a daimler with a full load that you had to stand up in the cab to turn a corner. they never came up with an excuse for that load of shite they inflicted on us.

CVG6 steering.

well its the usual hypocondriac suspects who will be doing this. the ones who in normal times filled up the doctors appointment lists day in day out. there medicine cupboard would put boots to shame. i just dusted off my old carburretor tester but all it showed me was i was running too rich.[/quote

Try redoing test after your morning ablutions, you may have a air leak on your vacuum tube... if that fails suggest a quality alcoholic drink of your choice, or for the non drinkers good old prune juice to flush system through.
Note make sure you have a good toilet paper, before commencing
this course of action.
Please do not combine the above with a curry as this can overload the fuel lines and give false readings.

and even worse the fleetline. daimler and gardner engine designers must have hated bus drivers with a passion.

Having worked all my life in contract work I never ever had the benefit of having full pay when on the sick, it was my choice to work in contracting.
Employees who work for the public sector as far as I know get full salary when on the sick, I would say a minority abuse it. It’s very difficult to sack anyone in the public sector with out the threat of being taken to a tribunal.
In contracting it wasn’t worth the hassle to go down the tribunal route, you woul probably find it difficult to secure another job.
I was working on DWP office refurbishments around 2004, the DWP staff were on flexible working hours, a few would turn up at 8 o’clock, log on to the system then feet on the desk newspapers out, they knew the manager never turned up till 9, 8.55 newspapers went away.
We can’t do nothing to alter the working practices in the public sector, the employees are institutionalised, stick them in the private sector where you have to produce results if not you are out the door, my Sunday whinge.

2nd wife had fibro she cud spend days in bed, she once spent 8 days in her pit. apparently it was discovered by a Swiss doctor.
Doctors here would not recognise the disease for some reason but ive seen the effects. She got DLA for it and a car. It can also tun in the family.as her niece suffered with it