Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> "Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1gc8z3p.1g21na51gtn328N%dame_zumari@yahoo.com...
> 
>>
>>Admittedly I don't know much about the UK nowadays, but 20-odd years ago
>>it was usual for companies to require a doctor's certificate to justify
>>sick days. So if you felt so lousy you didn't feel like going to work,
>>you had to drag yourself down to the doctor's clinic and get hir to sign
>>a "note" for you....
> 
> 
> And that's exactly how it was in the military, too. I've always thought that
> working for a Japanese company is a lot like being in the US military.
> 

Yebbut we don't get sick leave. We get 2 "women's days" a month (at
least, the females do), time off to look after sick relatives, or to
donate bone marrow (but not to a family member), or if a neighbour has a
serious contagious disease, or any number of other odd situations. But
not for just being ill. At least, that is what the rules say. They
appear to have been written by someone with the best of intentions but a
complete absence of clues.

James
-- 
If I have seen further than others, it is
by treading on the toes of giants.
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