Dogs Sleeping Forum

This forum operates on GMT to stop international time confusion

Skip to content

Shirkers guide

Post a reply

Confirmation code
Enter the code exactly as it appears. All letters are case insensitive, there is no zero.
Smilies
:gigglesnshit: :eyebrow: :header: :woteva: :yikes: :smilin: :bawlin: :wubbers: :NAA: :canny: :trollface: :wurms: :doomed: :wubwub: :leer: :grrrrr: :more beer: :ooer: :whistle: :dafinger: :pukeup: :Hiya: :bored: :Wiiiine!: :choc: :flog: :twirl: :pmsl: :dunno: :pointlaugh: :cheers: :yess: :bum: :snooty: :thud: :shell: :shake head: :thumbsup: :hap: :hand: :shame: :popcorn: :monkey: :off head: :bell: :shoot: :mrgreen: :roll: :oops: :razz: :laughing: :cool: :kinell: :wink: :drool: :grub: :awesome: :slap: :again?: :burfday: :srs?:
View more smilies
BBCode is ON
[img] is ON
[flash] is OFF
[url] is ON
Smilies are ON
Topic review
   

Expand view Topic review: Shirkers guide

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Snuffleupagus » Thu Oct 23, 2014 5:11 pm

Bella wrote:
Minj wrote:What a messy bedroom.


The yellow bin bag thing doesn't help, it might be hospital waste thing. Same colour as the Sharps bin the district nurses use.Doesn't look convincingly hygienic though.



Yeah, looks like it's supposed to be clinical waste, for incineration.

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Snuffleupagus » Thu Oct 23, 2014 10:12 am

Bella wrote:This takes faking illness to another dimension :kinell:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-29714408

A fraudster conned his neighbour out of £40,000 then pretended to be a quadriplegic and in a coma for two years to evade justice.

Alan Knight, 47, from Swansea, faked his condition but was caught by police going on shopping trips and holidays.

After he was caught, Knight admitted himself to hospital to avoid court hearings on "at least two occasions".

But he admitted to theft and forgery at Swansea Crown Court and faces jail when sentenced in November.

The court heard that Knight, who claimed to have no movement from the neck down, was caught on CCTV walking around a supermarket and driving his car to Dorset.


Image



Says in the link that doctors in hospital caught him writing etc, so he must have been trying to fool them too, and tests that will have presumably been done. :kinell:

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Bella » Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:47 pm

Minj wrote:What a messy bedroom.


The yellow bin bag thing doesn't help, it might be hospital waste thing. Same colour as the Sharps bin the district nurses use.Doesn't look convincingly hygienic though.

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Stooo » Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:41 pm

Bella wrote:This takes faking illness to another dimension :kinell:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-29714408

A fraudster conned his neighbour out of £40,000 then pretended to be a quadriplegic and in a coma for two years to evade justice.

Alan Knight, 47, from Swansea, faked his condition but was caught by police going on shopping trips and holidays.

After he was caught, Knight admitted himself to hospital to avoid court hearings on "at least two occasions".

But he admitted to theft and forgery at Swansea Crown Court and faces jail when sentenced in November.

The court heard that Knight, who claimed to have no movement from the neck down, was caught on CCTV walking around a supermarket and driving his car to Dorset.


Image


I'd rather do a bit of bird...

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Minj » Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:34 pm

What a messy bedroom.

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Bella » Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:26 pm

This takes faking illness to another dimension :kinell:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-29714408

A fraudster conned his neighbour out of £40,000 then pretended to be a quadriplegic and in a coma for two years to evade justice.

Alan Knight, 47, from Swansea, faked his condition but was caught by police going on shopping trips and holidays.

After he was caught, Knight admitted himself to hospital to avoid court hearings on "at least two occasions".

But he admitted to theft and forgery at Swansea Crown Court and faces jail when sentenced in November.

The court heard that Knight, who claimed to have no movement from the neck down, was caught on CCTV walking around a supermarket and driving his car to Dorset.


Image

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Snuffleupagus » Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:51 pm

Guest wrote:Who wouldn't shirk given the chance? :ooer:



Hmm, slobbing about watching TV etc isn't so bad if it's by choice, but when it's enforced.... :shake head:

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Snuffleupagus » Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:47 pm

Guest wrote:
Snuffleupagus wrote:
Claire wrote:
Snuffleupagus wrote:Someone I used to work with once had months on end off sick with a bad back - try proving/disproving that - and she even went on a weekend away while she was off that she won via work, and that entailed a long coach journey (she'd claimed that she couldn't sit for any length of time). :kinell:


It's a bit like you - never in, cleaning like a mad woman, constantly answering the door to couriers, trolling all day online - yet the one place you can't get to is work. :mrgreen:



Signed off, in a cast, not allowed on site. HTH. :pointlaugh:


Still, least my mind is well....



If you're well other than a cast you could do desk work?



Erm, not allowed on site - although I did sneak in for a few meetings the other week rather than hold meetings by telecon. Occ Health got to hear about it though and that was that. Been doing some work from home from time to time though. :paranoid:

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Guest » Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:24 pm

Snuffleupagus wrote:
Claire wrote:
Snuffleupagus wrote:Someone I used to work with once had months on end off sick with a bad back - try proving/disproving that - and she even went on a weekend away while she was off that she won via work, and that entailed a long coach journey (she'd claimed that she couldn't sit for any length of time). :kinell:


It's a bit like you - never in, cleaning like a mad woman, constantly answering the door to couriers, trolling all day online - yet the one place you can't get to is work. :mrgreen:



Signed off, in a cast, not allowed on site. HTH. :pointlaugh:


Still, least my mind is well....



If you're well other than a cast you could do desk work?

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Guest » Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:17 pm

Who wouldn't shirk given the chance? :ooer:

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Creamola Foam » Wed Oct 22, 2014 12:16 pm

Snuffleupagus wrote:
Creamola Foam wrote:
Guest wrote:There has to be better ways to get time off.

snog an african and get ebola




Hmmm, you run the risk of it being a permanent shirk there though. :laughing:



Good point

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Snuffleupagus » Wed Oct 22, 2014 12:15 pm

Creamola Foam wrote:
Guest wrote:There has to be better ways to get time off.

snog an african and get ebola




Hmmm, you run the risk of it being a permanent shirk there though. :laughing:

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Creamola Foam » Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:40 am

Guest wrote:There has to be better ways to get time off.

snog an african and get ebola

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Snuffleupagus » Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:09 pm

Guest wrote:They are bunch of chickens!!

Don't be surprised if one day you notice an unmarked van following you as you go about your daily activities. Many insurance companies have taken to shadowing and performing undercover surveillance on people who claim to have injuries when they really don't. Your best bet is not to fake an injury.


:woteva:



Hehe, it's almost a disclaimer. :mrgreen:


Still, best not do it if you can't afford to be found out....

Re: Shirkers guide

Post by Claire » Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:07 pm

Snuffleupagus wrote:
Trapper John wrote:Personally, I like a good shirk and would take any opportunity which presented itself, with gusto. :thumbsup:



Didn't you break a bone in your foot or something not so long ago Tj? Sorry, can't quite remember exactly what it was, I remember you being off though.

I'm finding this enforced "shirking" a tad frustrating, not being able to drive etc. :monkey:


You're a beacon of the hard working. Pubbing it every night like a boss. :wubbers:

Top

Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group