Scottyboi
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Last year they brought in 5 care days off for taking family members you care for to appointments and 5 emergency days too. It's made me not look elsewhere for work.
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Sick days / mental health days
- Thread starter Mad Eyed Screamer
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Last year they brought in 5 care days off for taking family members you care for to appointments and 5 emergency days too. It's made me not look elsewhere for work.
I'm With Stupid
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I follow someone on Instagram and Youtube who got long covid, which seems to have developed into someone similar to ME or CFS.When i got ill it was called yuppy flu, the first dr i saw said it is stress and to sweat it out playing tennis , which was what i loved doing at the time , i started a game ,collapsed and an ambulance took me to hospital where they never believed it was an actual illness
My then gp came back from holiday to find me in a heap, he said he had an 18 yr old patient , in a wheelchair, with similar symptoms and we learnt about it together and he was a good support but couldnt really help me . The only thing that was talked about then was magesium, so i had a six week course of injections but they were agony and i was so thin the needle was hitting my bones
Post viral illness has come to the fore post covid and i hope people affected get a more sympathetic response from the medical bods .ME and fibro are now recognised by the dwp but that is a relatively new addition but better late than never
She used to run a Youtube channel and was full of energy.
And then literally overnight, she was basically unable to get out of bed for 2 years. Not sure that sentence makes sense, but you get the gist.
A number of reasons for that.When we were working online during covid, I noticed people phoned in sick way less often. There's just something far less daunting about getting through a day when you're feeling ill if you're sat at a desk in your own house, compared to if you're having to go into a workplace all day. And it's not even like you could skive in my job, because you still had to be live for a good chunk of the day.
People genuinely got ill less. Because we had no contact with anyone.
People cab oftwn wirk through colds and minor illness but are often advised to not go into offices to avoid giving it to people. Which working from home is not an issue.
There was a fear of losing jobs ir being furloughed, those that kept theirs.
There was a touch of gratitude as well for those whose jobs were not put on hold.
Imo
kaz7
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I follow someone on Instagram and Youtube who got long covid, which seems to have developed into someone similar to ME or CFS.
She used to run a Youtube channel and was full of energy.
And then literally overnight, she was basically unable to get out of bed for 2 years. Not sure that sentence makes sense, but you get the gist.
Thats a real shame , i was 30 when i got ill, she looks younger.hopefully she can get much better and it doesnt go into chronic territory