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     Cyberpope wrote --   
      
   >  >   People down here do the same, they clog up ER's with all sorts of minor   
   problems.   
   >    
   > What kind of insurance give thenm that sort of freedom to do so?   
      
     Usually those with some sort of welfare medical card where its "free".   
      
   > Same; & wat I don't know, my wife generally does. If I go to ER, you cvan   
   bet I NEED it!   
      
     Plus there are now all sorts of medical advice pages on the web.  Type in   
   your symptoms and get a general answer/solution to the problem.   
      
   > He also had all  his vacation pay, save 4 weeks, & spent he last ten years   
   at work working 2 days(doubles) then 4 days off, then take 2 vacay days, then   
   4 days off, & repeated until it was just routine.   
      
     I've known people who have done similar things.  Lots of vacation/sick   
   days accrued and take that in a lump sum.   
     I've had only one job with any sort of vacation pay, and that was for   
   only five days, regardless how long one worked for the company.  A new hire   
   (after one year) and a 20+ year employee had the same number of days.   
     Over time from when I started those were cut back until after about 10   
   years after I started it was two (non-consecutive) days.  It might be a   
   Tuesday one week and a Wednesday the next week.  (Tuesday and Wednesday were   
   our   
   usual slow days).   
     My current employer offers no sick days, no vacation days.  One can take   
   a sick day, but its not something like X number of days a year, etc.   
     However, my being posted at a university I took six weeks a year off.    
   The week of Thanksgiving, four weeks for Christmas (mid-December to   
   mid-January when there were no classes) and a week in March for spring break.   
     Even then it was getting a call "you have the day off, you can go work   
   at..."     
     Being retired (and still working) I can refuse and not a lot the company   
   can do about it.  :)   
     I seldom refuse but not a patsy working every day off.   
     Joe   
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