"Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Dave Fossett <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote:
> > I wasn't sure what the situation was like in the UK these days, but I
> > thought it was only in Japan that people went to see a doctor when they
> > caught a cold.
>
> 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.

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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom