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1) I've pulled a muscle in my back, and it hurts muchly - any advice?
2) The main question.
I've been disgnosed with thid bad back of mine since friday. The doctor gave me a urine test (all clear) and perscribed me some ibuprofen and sent me home. I phoned in ill Saturday and my team leader told me that if I weasn't in before today (I work long weekends) then I'd need a doctors note. Fair enough. So yesterday I call up, and am asked to get a doctors note because of 'patterns of absence' (which basically means - a monday and tuesday off back in January because of a stomach bug, last week off because of the flu, which other people in work had too, and now this. I've been with the company since December and this is my thirs leave of absence because of sickness.
So I get a taxi down to the doctors, I wait around, and then when seen I'm told that the Doctor won't give me a doctor's note, and that my place of work don't need one until my eighth day of absence, which in this case would be next saturday. Then I got another taxi home.
So I'm REAL annoyed. I have a bad back and I don't NEED to put up with this paranoid shit from my team leader. He's already told me I'm a 'bad boy' for taking the previous weekend off with the flu, and when I told him the illness was genuiene, as much as I personally objected to feeling like I had to do so, I was told it sounded like a case of weekenditus, whatever the fuck that is.
So I'm really annoyed - the only justification I can see for my team leader asking for a doc note would be for me to go to the doctors and discover I didn't need one, therefore telling him and proving that I've been to the doctors in the first place. Thing is, I've got a feeling that I read on the group intranet that company policy is to only ask for a doctors note from the eighth day of absence on anyhow.
I'm really annoyed about this.
Also, my company sick policy is that everyone who can't attend work must phone the company an hour before the start of the shift to tell them, wait for a call for UP TO an hour after the start of the shift from our team leader, and if there's no call forthcoming, then call in again to make sure the original message was properly received. This seems a bit dodgy to me. Yesterday I left a message an hour before the start of my shift and then four hours later received a call from my team leader, who was very asshole-like and unsympathetic imo. I've told him I've done my back in, yet he's asked I call every day of absence to keep the company informed anyhow. I don't see the point of this. When I'm back in, I'm back in. Is this fair? Yesterday his callback woke me up, and it's very difficult to get to sleep when you're in as much pain as I am.
Any advice you have would be gratefuly accepted. I fgeel like shit and this latest thing has really depressed me. |
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