Murgi wrote:
>>I've had them through three companies. At each one, the results were
>>sent to the employer, who then handed them over to the employees.
> 
> Of course, unopened... I suppose.
> But who knows whether the company also receives the precise results of your
> health condition in an additional letter?
> 
> Sigi

Sigi, a company that wants to know the precise results WILL know them. 
 From a privacy standpoint, its a ridiculous situation.

I got an additional surprise this year. As well as the health check 
shindig (as an employee of my company I do the health check tango too) I 
am now required to do an extra and separate test because I am running a 
bar as a side business. Since I am the registered 
shokuhineiseikanrininsha, apparently I need to submit a stool sample 
twice yearly. How exactly I'm to gather this sample isn't something I've 
worked out the logistics of, given that there isn't a Japanese style 
toilet anywhere closeby that I know of. I asked if giving the sample 
this wasn't a little strange in this day and age - given that HACCP and 
other techniques will be more vital - but apparently the powers that be 
have declared that it is the destiny of some unfortunate young boffin in 
a white suit down at the Okazaki City Medical Association Public Health 
Center to sift through my sample for 0-157, salmonella and the like.

I shit you not.


-- 
"Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give 
me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue 
will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of 
that sinful Old Janx Spirit"