And he will never get any one of those days back...

/My old man used to tell me. Your company could give a rats ass about your life.

Spiffy? How many people missed days of work because this loser came in and infected everybody?

"He used to say if you got up in the morning and have a sniffle you should just ignore it and go straight off out to work. "

So making everyone else sick is a good thing now?

I really wish this corporate mindset would die. When the swine flu was going around, companies actually did tell people to go home and stay home until cleared by a doctor, but that's the ONLY time I've ever heard of any company actually doing that.

bingethinker: Spiffy? How many people missed days of work because this loser came in and infected everybody?

From TFA: "He used to say if you got up in the morning and have a sniffle you should just ignore it and go straight off out to work.

I appreciate that the guy is a hard worker. Good for him. The world could use more of them. But going to work sick? You haven't done anybody any favours.

Anyone that doesn't skip work every now and then is NOT to be trusted.

pkellmey: I'm sure it is because he just hates his homelife. This is normal for a lot of people who hate their family.

I'm proud of him for being a hard worker and all, but this guy is a grandfather. He stuck his wife with childcare everytime any of his kids got sick. I never took a sick day in my first 14 years in the workforce. The military makes you come in to work even if you're sick to get checked out, and by that time what's the point? Hangover, flu, whatever... the other bubbleheads probably were involved in the process of getting me there already.

Anyhow, once you have children and they start bringing home daycare bio-weapons, someone has to care for them when they have a fever and are (quite reasonably) banned from school. My wife and I alternate days or split them.

And then there's the days of "I caught whatever monster bug was on the swingset from my kid" in which I'd really rather not share it with anyone, much less people that I have to see every day. Most of my sick days are for my kids, but every single one is related to them.

This champ just ignored all that.

If i'm sick, i'm pulling a sickie. I don't care how much I love the company i'm working for.

Subby gets props for not farking up their/there/they're

If you don't do something -spontaneously- every once in awhile that leaves you completely incapable of work the next day... you're not living. You're just existing.

Worked at BreAking for ten years. I got (by the time I left) 3 weeks vacation, 5 personal days and 5 sick days (up to ten, but after that you went on benefits, so you always tried not to use more than the standard five) and I am proud to say I used ecru last one of those suckers every single year. And I was still an above average employee, plus I never got anyone sick at work. This guy on the other hand will get a little certificate and will be forever remembered as the"Typhoid Mary" by everyone he worked with.

There are few organizations and fewer positions which are worth such a record. From the article, seems doubtful this was one. Besides, shirking responsibility is good once in a while for the sake of sanity.

An old supervisor of mine used to brag about all the unused vacation days the company took back from him on December 31.

We tried to tell him "You do realize that you just helped the company essentially steal two weeks pay from you" but the retard had reached the bone by that point.

I was gone from that company not long after, but I did find out that he was eventually fired for a piddling transgression involving keeping copies of personnel files in his office that should have been only in the HR office.