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Eat sh*t, Cal Ripken

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by MTM, Jan 29, 2013.

  1. apeman33

    apeman33 Well-Known Member

    Here, it isn't pride. We don't get sick days so people come in to work because they don't want to waste a vacation day when they're "just sick."
     
  2. Tarheel316

    Tarheel316 Well-Known Member

    I totally agree with this.
     
  3. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    And it's just semantics that she didn't use a sick day. She used vacation days to account for doctor's appointments. So she did miss time for being sick.
     
  4. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    It's not just semantics. Nobody's selling her as the most healthy person in the world.

    Only one with a good work ethic.

    Everybody uses their vacation time. Not everybody uses their sick time. She's one of the rare ones who never used her sick time --- who worked every day she was SCHEDULED to work (vacations are scheduled, too).
     
  5. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Lots of people have good work ethics. Millions of them. This woman is being presented as someone with a unique work ethic. Or at least a great work ethic.

    But the inference of both the article and the thread headline is that she didn't miss a day of work due to illness. That's not true. She simply accounted for doctor's appointments as vacation days.

    Perhaps she scheduled her vacations weeks in advance like most everyone else and then went to the doctor those days. Maybe she scheduled them a few days ahead of time when she was feeling sick, then used the vacation day to go to the doctor.

    What we do know that she in fact did miss work due to medical reasons. She just accounted for them in other ways than by using sick time.
     
  6. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    It's easy to have a good work ethic when you get every single holiday off... :D
     
  7. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    We're really splitting hairs here. The key to me is that she never missed a scheduled work day because of illness. Nobody ever got a call on their day off and was told, "We need you to come in today. Deborah called in sick vacation today."

    And to anyone who deals with schedule making and asking people to work 6- or 7-day weeks or overtime, those kinds of workers are a godsend. Like having a car that starts up EVERY time and never leaves you stranded, you typically don't appreciate them until you buy (or hire) something less reliable.
     
  8. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    I'm not splitting hairs at all.

    I'm saying she did miss work due to illness.

    The sick days were simply recorded as vacation days. And who knows what her co-workers were asked to do on those days.
     
  9. Bodie_Broadus

    Bodie_Broadus Active Member

    My employer tells us to stay home if we get sick.
     
  10. Topher Grace played Cal Ripken for his first 3 seasons in Baltimore.
     
  11. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    In 1997, Topher Grace turned the lights out at Camden Yards so Cal Ripken could have an affair with Kevin Costner.
     
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