Back on topic of women. Some years ago worked in a mixed office temping and one of the women was forever off work with repetitive strain injury from keyboard work and finally put in a claim to the council via the union for a pay out. During a conversation about I innocently revealed that she was a keen gardener and had told me she had done her own digging and grass laying. I got move to another department after she dropped her case following further discussions. It was only an innocent remark that saved the council about 80K..
I recall a case during the Gulf War where a typist working for the MOD got three times the compo for RSI than a soldier did for losing his legs. ****ing ****ers.
The hardest part of that is that there is a sliding scale for compensation to the Forces on the basis it "was what they signed up for" whereas typists signed up for a job without danger. But they soon found one thing or another to claim for. Health and Safety Exec needs shooting - oops can't do that, their rellies will claim.
The only real problem I have with period leave is if the lasses turn wise, claim most of the period problems were mid-week, and choose to make up the time at weekends, i.e. on double time. Make-up period work must be on ordinary time payment, otherwise it's sex discrimination. The guy can work his guts out on Friday (for ordinary rates of pay) to make up for her absence, and then loses his overtime because she's here on Sunday. We must prevent that.
Of course I won't - that's far too quick and painless Castration by a rusty teaspoon - that's much more like it. BTW - back to OP - as someone who's suffered in the past - cramps and vomiting on a regular basis - as with so many illnesses, there's been so much advances in solving the problem, find it difficult to get my head round having to take time off in this day and age
AS one who has suffered from the result of those, plus PMS, HRT, SUV, and XYZ, I am still attached to her. God how I have suffered mainly in silence brought on by fear.
