Slacker on long term sick

[millsy888]

I kinda agree with him. What is stressful about working at a supermarket. Little responsibility, very little brain work. If a customer gets angry just direct them to a manager who is trained to deal with it.

My point being that work is only one part of life that can be stressful, just because someone is off work with stress, doesn't mean that the stress is from work.

 

[I get around]

I kinda agree with him. What is stressful about working at a supermarket. Little responsibility, very little brain work. If a customer gets angry just direct them to a manager who is trained to deal with it.

Most customers treat you like youre some kind of idiot, or their slave. That is if they're not trying to steal something, usually with their children. EVERYTHING is broken we don't have 1 fully functioning till, telxon, trolley pushing machine or anything else. Theres a hole in the roof which has yet to be fixed and half the time we have no carrier bags even. Unstaffed constantly so forced to work incredibly hard, usually end up leaving the job half done and getting a rollocking for it. Health and safety is being completely ignored, the amount of times i've slipped or tripped on something. I've had a cage collapse on me because there are broken drain covers in the warehouse, which have not been fixed regardless of numerous complaints. Oh and on top of that you get a crappy wage, if they manage to pay you fully and on time which has not happened for the past god knows how many months.
OH and I found out my managers complaints system, theres a big recycling bin in his office which they're all stuck into.

 

[Rainmaker]

I kinda agree with him. What is stressful about working at a supermarket. Little responsibility, very little brain work. If a customer gets angry just direct them to a manager who is trained to deal with it.

What of the person with social anxiety disorder? Depression? A myriad of others. You're looking at this in a very blinkered fashion. For someone with social anxiety disorder a supermarket job would be absolutely intolerable, and may only manifest once they actually start to work there - especially if they didn't have such a large exposure to people before they took the job, which is common. That way the symptoms would only really manifest after they started to work, at which point a diagnosis could be made.

A person with clinical depression would find the 'little responsibility, very little brain work' role a killer, perhaps literally. Being already depressed then sitting around with no stimulation all day in a corporate environment where you mean nothing, isn't going to fix your depression. It will however, likely make it worse.

Some very blinkered views in here. At least on the plus side, those with such views haven't had to suffer the crippling effects of mental illness.

 

[Efour]

This is why i don't read OCUK forums for anything serious. So many ill-informed teenagers bornwith silver spoons in their mouths.

 

[fez]

I understand that if you have issues then that sort of job would do your head in but then that is not the right job for you. I can't see how taking that job and then having to take time off through stress soon after can be a good thing. How does time off help or change the situation you are in. Its just delaying a relapse.

I was referring more to the type of person in the OP at any rate. Someone who does sound like a man with an issue other than laziness.

 

[smokedog]

Maybe he is stressed, and working on his personal projects to overcome it. What help is going home, doing sweet FA all day everyday going to do? It's only going to remind you of stressful times. Why not do something to pass the time.

If he is mentally well enough to work on personally software projects to start up his own business, he's well enough to come in to work (Software developer).

 

[JBuk]

If he is mentally well enough to work on personally software projects to start up his own business, he's well enough to come in to work (Software developer).

There's no real pressure at home to do things so it's always easier, at work some people can feel pressured even if there isn't any directly being put on them, this can cause stress

Fair enough he may well be playing the system but just because people can do things at home without stress that doesn't mean they can do it in a professional working environment

 

[platinum87]

Ah yes, the platinum87 we all remember. If you ever really do want some sympathy some time (and yes, it will happen), then please invite us all around so we can laugh at you.
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Ok but we have to play poker and drink while you are laughing at me.

Even if you are fine you must understand not everyone is and in a civilised world isn't too much to give a little help to those that need it and maybe in return someone will help you when you need it.

Asking for help is fine, im saying dont have a mental breakdown, lock yourself in your house and cry.

If your real personality is anything like your internet personality (which it probably isn't, I refer you to the (in)famous Nitefly cartoon) then I would say that you have already snapped.

Dont confuse personality with opinions, Im a friendly guy, but when people ask for my opinions thats when they dont like it

How do you know? Do you honestly think that I thought I would get anxiety? I guess those of us who have had it or who are going through it cannot expect you to understand, lets hope you never have to go through it.

Answering this question would result in the most about of flame you've ever seen on this forum, if you want an answer it will have to be elsewhere!

 

[konicky]

I'm not sure what everybody is arguing about here.

1) A certain amount of stress is good.

2) Too much stress is bad. Everybody has a breaking point even platinum87

3) Stress is a genuine illness but more often than not it is faked to get time off work in the same way as backache.

 

[I get around]

The breaking point of stress is mental breakdown, no one I know who is skiving work because of "stress" has had a mental breakdown. Stress is an illness, but in the way that a cold is an illness, you can still work with it, a mental breakdown is possibly grounds for a bit of time off from work.

If everyone suffering from stress downed tools for a day it would just mean insanity, nothing would function.