Gemmill

I've got that George Clooney Good Night thing coming next on my Screenselect. Alex's recommendation. It wants to be good!

I remember the Dear John theme tune. Complete crap. I think I might have quite liked Brush Strokes though.

106 pages by home time. FACT!

How shit was that Brittas show man. Two of my mates LOVED it and would sit pissing themselves laughing at it (like canned laughter loud laughing).

Haway ladies, less of the bickering!

FREAK.

What do you have to do to get some service round here?

Me too, it's fucking wank! Signalled the beginning of the canonisation of Tom Hanks as well. Which is a bad thing.

You need to MAN UP boy. They are WARRIORS!

You'd hate me then. If I'm going to be ill then I'm damned sure EVERYONE is going to know about it, and preferably catch it so they can suffer too. I can picture you doing that actually. I'd just bully you til you went home tbh.

It's worst when they blow their nose or do something snot-related and then let out a barely audible "uhhhh" sigh. Just to let everyone know how ill they are. No sympathy from me DICKHEAD! You shouldn't have come in.

They had that rule at some of the accountancy firms in America - KPMG for example. No sick entitlement at all, so you had to use your holidays if you were ill!? Thankfully PwC weren't that stupid. From what my pals over the pond say, they get a vacation allowance and so many sick days on top, which thay can use anytime. If however they go over the sick days allowance then it's no pay. At least I can work from home, like today (I'm not sick BTW just working from home) When I went over there I got 20 days a year because I'd transferred from the UK firm so they didn't take your UK allowance off you. It used to wind the yanks up something chronic with their pathetic 10 day allowance.

WHAAAAAAT?? The correct rule of thumb to apply is as follows: if you aren't feeling great, and you feel bad enough that you would reconsider (not cancel necessarily, but reconsider) doing something socially (outside of work), then you're ill enough to not go to work. I've got a minging hangover and the only thing I should be doing now is lying on my sofa with a wet flannel on my head. Does that count? You should never have come in. Go home at once. Incidentally I work for a Dutch company. Over in Holland if you work for the same company they get 10 weeks holiday a year. Now no one is going to try and tell me that I'm not entitled to more than my 25 days simply because of the small matter of geography!? Surely??

They had that rule at some of the accountancy firms in America - KPMG for example. No sick entitlement at all, so you had to use your holidays if you were ill!? Thankfully PwC weren't that stupid.

Just remembered another rule: if you're ill over the weekend, but well by Monday morning, it's only right that you should get Monday off to compensate for your weekend being ruined.

Run of the mill?? I'll have you know I'm an extremely important cog in the business world machinery! Only a Frenchman could write a book like that and get away with it though. I'm surprised he could even be arsed to write it.

WHAAAAAAT?? The correct rule of thumb to apply is as follows: if you aren't feeling great, and you feel bad enough that you would reconsider (not cancel necessarily, but reconsider) doing something socially (outside of work), then you're ill enough to not go to work. Fuck me, that's one hell of a bad work ethic you've got Gemmill! I guess it depends on how many people depend on your work really. Not really. Working when ill is stupid IMO. Unless you're up against a really tight deadline for which the option to not meet it isn't available. If I'm in that situation I'll work. Luckily I very very rarely get even a cold, so it's not often an issue. I just take the free ones.

URGH! I HATE you! Them 9am lectures were always a bastard like. Huge self discipline required to drag yourself in for one. I was shocked to see the number of goody goody first years turning up for a nine o'clock maths tutorial this morning. Sickens me to my very core. Last laugh next week when I dish out their spot test. What are you doing for your PhD again geordieshandy? It's related to lung dosimetry. Basically I am looking at how particles are affected by secondary flows within bends and bifurcations with a view to modelling deposition patterns of pharmaceutical or toxic particles within the respiratory tract. You've got no chance of passing that!

WHAAAAAAT?? The correct rule of thumb to apply is as follows: if you aren't feeling great, and you feel bad enough that you would reconsider (not cancel necessarily, but reconsider) doing something socially (outside of work), then you're ill enough to not go to work.

Eff orf.

URGH! I HATE you!

Thread about this the other day on NO so I'm nicking it. What's your philosophy? A big no-no? A welcome extension to your annual holiday allowance? Are you one of those people that comes into work even when you feel like you're on death's door? Or do you take a day off at the slightest sign of the sniffles? I've bolded my philosophy on the matter. I think they're great.

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