Re: Gleeson : Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:10 pm  

fc baldy wrote:

So he should be attending work while on compassonaite/sick leave????/

I was off for 12 weeks last yr and on full pay and was told to keep away from work.....wheres the difference?

were you re-employed in the same industry having being released for "personal reasons" by a previous employer a fortnight before?

Re: Gleeson : Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:15 pm  

I remember someone being off with stress in my first job around 25 years ago. No one had ever heard of stress related illnesses at the time so our boss sent him a fruit cake to cheer him up. How times have changed

Re: Gleeson : Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:18 pm  

Standee wrote:

were you re-employed in the same industry having being released for "personal reasons" by a previous employer a fortnight before?

So he has a full medical and passes that...we know he has issues as the club looked into it.....so your saying he shouldnt have the same benefits as the other players or should he do a 13 week trial to become permanent member of the team and then get his full benefits.

We signed a world class centre who was available and its not worked out so far...we are supporting him through his problems...personally cant see anything wrong with this...you just have a agenda about this and its a bit pathetic if you ask me.

Re: Gleeson : Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:25 pm  

fc baldy wrote:

you just have a agenda about this and its a bit pathetic if you ask me.

fair enough, you think what you want.

Re: Gleeson : Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:37 pm  

Standee wrote:

fair enough, you think what you want.

I do thanks.

Re: Gleeson : Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:48 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

I remember someone being off with stress in my first job around 25 years ago. No one had ever heard of stress related illnesses at the time so our boss sent him a fruit cake to cheer him up. How times have changed

How did he react when he answered the door to you ?

















Only kidding mate

Re: Gleeson : Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:13 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

I remember someone being off with stress in my first job around 25 years ago. No one had ever heard of stress related illnesses at the time so our boss sent him a fruit cake to cheer him up. How times have changed

Stress related illness is just new speak for depression, we have someone off at my place of work with the same, been off for 8-9 weeks so far on full pay, while the rest of us have to carry on doing double the work, the docs just sign you off straight away as soon as you tell them ur depressed, tell them they are stopping getting payed and they would all be back to work tommorow! too easy nowadays to take the p1$$, the sickness culture in the UK is rife.

Re: Gleeson : Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:42 pm  

Staffs FC wrote:

How did he react when he answered the door to you ?

















Only kidding mate

Yeah, he got a bit upset when I took him the cuckoo clock I'd bought him

Re: Gleeson : Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:44 pm  

VerbalKint wrote:

Stress related illness is just new speak for depression, we have someone off at my place of work with the same, been off for 8-9 weeks so far on full pay, while the rest of us have to carry on doing double the work, the docs just sign you off straight away as soon as you tell them ur depressed, tell them they are stopping getting payed and they would all be back to work tommorow! too easy nowadays to take the p1$$, the sickness culture in the UK is rife.

I think anyone who is on sick should only be paid SSP and only after the first week. Sickness rates would plummet overnight. My missus works somewhere that you get paid full pay for 6 months if you're signed off

Re: Gleeson : Thu Aug 04, 2011 6:52 pm  

steve_norton wrote:

have taken their own medical advice and have set a timetable for his treatment and return to work..

Its a stress related illness - his doctor signs him off. What the heck are Hull FC got to do with it?

He is "unfit for work" - his medical advisors quite rightly don't get a flying monkeys who he works for, and his employers, like us have naff all rights to know sensitive medical information, directly or indirectly, ethically, legally - which ever way you want to put it. His has a right to privacy and a right to get better.