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mousmeSo, my day is getting more, um, interesting, I guess, if not actually better.
The Americans are founding death camps because, hey, trials by jury are so inefficient: after all, they might get the terrorists acquitted.
Barf.
I still have five hours left in my day and am seriously contemplating doing something drastic so they send me home. Maybe throwing my computer at someone's head would do it... Because, you know, puking repeatedly into your wastebasket isn't enough to have them send you home. "Well, you're already here, you may as well stay. Have some gingerale, you'll feel better." :P It's only when you vomit blood that they actually consider letting you go to the hospital. Okay, I'm being unfair: they were actually worried when I threw up blood, and they were nice about it.
However, unless your illness appears to be life-threatening, they want you to work.
Actually, given this policy, I'm surprised no cases of S.A.R.S. have cropped up in the Toronto call centre yet. Then again, people are so terrified of it that they've quarantined a whole bunch of Bell employees who were thought to have possibly been in contact with people who might have been in contact with S.A.R.S. victims or who returned recently from trips to Asia.
That, coupled with West Nile and new and fun cases of Bovine Spongiform Encelopathy are quickly turning Canada into the newest "danger" resort location.
Come up to Canada! Guaranteed neurological and/or respiratory illness after only ten days!
At least we don't have death camps.
Bring out yer dead!
The Americans are founding death camps because, hey, trials by jury are so inefficient: after all, they might get the terrorists acquitted.
Barf.
I still have five hours left in my day and am seriously contemplating doing something drastic so they send me home. Maybe throwing my computer at someone's head would do it... Because, you know, puking repeatedly into your wastebasket isn't enough to have them send you home. "Well, you're already here, you may as well stay. Have some gingerale, you'll feel better." :P It's only when you vomit blood that they actually consider letting you go to the hospital. Okay, I'm being unfair: they were actually worried when I threw up blood, and they were nice about it.
However, unless your illness appears to be life-threatening, they want you to work.
Actually, given this policy, I'm surprised no cases of S.A.R.S. have cropped up in the Toronto call centre yet. Then again, people are so terrified of it that they've quarantined a whole bunch of Bell employees who were thought to have possibly been in contact with people who might have been in contact with S.A.R.S. victims or who returned recently from trips to Asia.
That, coupled with West Nile and new and fun cases of Bovine Spongiform Encelopathy are quickly turning Canada into the newest "danger" resort location.
Come up to Canada! Guaranteed neurological and/or respiratory illness after only ten days!
At least we don't have death camps.
Bring out yer dead!
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Date: 2003-05-29 08:47 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-05-29 09:20 am (UTC)It'll be a bit crowded with Abi and Bryan, but they won't be living here for at least another 4-months, and even then they've said they might move to Seattle instead.
I hope you're not allergic to cats. ;)
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Date: 2003-05-29 09:25 am (UTC)But yeah. The whole madman in office thing makes me want to leave the country.
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Date: 2003-05-29 09:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-29 12:36 pm (UTC)What baffles me is how all these diseases show up only in Canada and haven't seriously crossed the border. Although, mad cow is a really isolated case so it doesn't count (last I heard, only one single cow had it out of the entire herd they slaughtered for testing). But the rest...
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Date: 2003-05-29 01:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-30 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
I am sorry you don’t feel well :(