Postal Service Employee Retires After 44 Years And Zero Sick Days Which Leads To An Ongoing Debate At Barstool: Is It Acceptable To Take Sick Days?
(FreePress) – Deborah Ford of Detroit put in 44 years before retiring Wednesday — a good stint, to be sure. And they were all with the same employer, the U.S. Postal Service, making the 64-year-old Ford a rarity in these days of job jumping. But what makes her truly a standout is that in all those years of clerical work at Detroit’s main post office on West Fort Street, Ford never took a sick day. She used vacation time for doctor’s appointments. And whenever she felt lousy, “I’d shake it off,” said Ford, who lives in Detroit with her 86-year-old father. “Amazing” and “remarkable” were words used by Chuck Howe, the Postal Service district manager who oversees the Detroit District, comprising more than 13,000 employees in Michigan’s eastern half.
I bet everyone in this office was THRILLED to see Deborah go. “Hey congrats, Deb! Never took a sick day! Really ‘shook it off’ when you came into work every day hacking and sneezing all over everybody. Passing the flu around the office like it’s the fucking bosses birthday card. Such a dedicated employee Debbie. A true American hero!” Anyone who goes to work when they’re sick is a selfish scumbag who only cares about their own paycheck and not the well being of their co-workers.
But this story actually brings up a pretty confusing topic for me right now. Last week I got sick. Friday Pres tweets that “I’m sick” is a “#ThingNeverSaidInTheRealWorld.” Which is weird because I was positive that I didn’t invent the phrase “sick day.” Nonetheless, he’s says that these “sick days” are only for chicks to use on their wedding or some shit and retweets all the peanut gallery morons who were saying “he sent a tweet this morning! he’s plenty healthy!” as if that’s the new pain gauge for illness. Doctor’s just walking into patient rooms and ask people to take out their iPhone, as long as they can operate it they’re healthy as a horse. I still have no idea what was going on. Maybe the most confusing hour of my life. I’m not even saying Pres is wrong, although I’m pretty sure he is. I guess all I’m wondering is do I get to put #sickday on the list of things I invented along with #nofilter?
Editors Note – Just to clarify. Feitleberg wrote like 2 blogs in 48 hours last week. I asked him what the hell he was doing and he said he had the sniffles. I tweeted something about how that’s shit you don’t hear in the real world. He replied by saying they had sick days in the real world. My point is this. Only chicks who know they are getting married and will be a housewife in 2 years and have no career goals or ambitions take sick days. If you have any desire to be good at your job or impress your boss you don’t take sick days. It’s kind of like optional practices. You better fucking show up if you care about playing time. But Feits has never had a job in the real world so he doesn’t know any better.
Vote 1 for Pres is right. Sick days are only for chicks and 10 for everybody takes sick days
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i dont take sick days, its cause im the man you fucking idiots and make more money than most of the stoolies
yeah fuck feitelberg you should fire him
you also like your own comments so you are without question the coolest dude out there
Depends where you work… government agency – generally everyone is taking their sick days… getting paid 120K to be entry level researcher for PE fund.. you take a sick day you might as well pack up your desk when you take off for the sniffles
we actually have dead days. those are usually reserved for mondays after those weekends when you would literally agree to death in the near future if you could take the day off. probably taking one next monday.
@KingBlackDude you can thank affirmative action for that
@king i hope you arent an english teacher, damn. i had to read that like 10 times and it still doesnt make sense
calling in sick means you just work from home so you don’t get anyone else in the office sick. if you blog from home, then there is no calling in sick. people who call in sick and don’t just do their work from home are destined for mediocre lives
I’m 99% sure Pres was bouncing Feitelberg on his knee when he added the Editor’s note with Feitelberg and his obnoxious big face staring at Pres similar to Stevie and Kenny Powers
you are black @kingblackdude. Your whole fuckin life is a sick day.
100% chance that @KingBlackDude is a 40 year old white guy
Lagat, shut the fuck up you idiot, nobody gets paid a buck twenty for entry level shit. Secondly, government employees DON’T take sick days because they get paid cash for them. Dumb shit. And if youre a cube monkey and dont take at least a few sick days a year, youre a moron.
1st off, sick days are for pussies. 2nd of all, the Post Office, like all govt offices, is a scam. If she didn’t take any sick days, they roll every year and accumulate. So let’s say she accumulated 150 sick days, she can retire 150 days early and get paid as if she worked for those days.
if i could take a sick day everyday, i would.
just goes to show how fucking clueless these barstool clowns are. Of course we take sick days, how else can I tee off at 10AM in June?
“Sick days are only for chicks” hardooo
I didn’t think negroes worked?? Don’t they just collect welfare??
dudebro works as a receptionist for the department of sanitation
Sick days at certain jobs, okay. Sick days when your job is to blog, you have to be fucking kidding me..
enjoy waking up to work next Monday if you don’t take sick days. anyone else here enjoy ducking out of town Thursday after work on long weekends because you can take Friday off? yup definite hardo move enjoying life instead of going into work hungover or sick
I get pissed at my employees when they come in coughing and sneezing and spreading their germs all over the place. Stay the fuck home and don’t get the whole office sick. That being said if you can’t stay home and surf the net and put some thoughts down then you are the biggest pussy alive.
“Too sick to blog” is up there with “can you check on the wnba score for me” as the most pathetic thing one can utter
Financebroskegs mops up piss at downtown crossing.
2 Feitelberg blogs in 48 hours is 2 too many.
If you were my boss, Pres, I’d punch you in the throat, dick head.
Hm. Guess that bitch in my office that got me deathly sick definitely didn’t need to take a sick day. If you’re a blogger, then fuck off – you will never need a sick day. All I do when I’m sick is sleep and go on my computer. But if you work in the real world and you will get other people sick and no one wants to hear you cough and sneeze and act like an insufferable asshole, yeah…take those sick days please.
sitting in front of a computer writing funny shit is the only “job” you shouldn’t be allowed to take sick days on
Pretty sure “professional” bloggers can take sick days…not exactly a lot riding on fake jew meeting his quota
praying: One day, one day — a hack will reveal everyone’s identities from the comments sections
Sick days are just unplanned vacation days. As a mogul who runs off to St. Bart’s and shit I thought you’d recognize that.
Look at all the hardos who don’t take sick days and lose them at the end of the year for no reason. I take most of mine, but when I’m a work I work my dick off. The whole “only mediocre employees take sick days” idea is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard.
fuck free world 313
“Your whole life is a sick day” The fact that people even think that that insult is worth likes speaks more to the racism behind it then the actual joke, which if were being honest really isn’t that funny. Especially coming from a guy named mike jordan. Probably sucked MJ’s dick hardcore but when it comes to anything else it’s anti-black. Sigh, @ King, don’t argue with them it’s their site. If you really make that much money you should be satisfied with it. Fuck their beautiful women, rub your success and intelligence and their face, be friendly but never subservient and never act like them or think that they will accept you. This site is proof enough.
minister .. feel free to stay over at WorldStarHipHop then. Nobody cares.
I get 5 sick days a year and if I don’t take them they don’t carry over and I don’t get paid for them. Hence, I lose them. You better fuckin believe those days get taken whether I’m sick or not. I like to refer to ten as sanity days. Thing is, since I work for a private company, I just end up working from my blackberry, but fuck it, at least the blackberry works on the beach
Feitelberg you have the biggest face ever
Pres doesn’t take sick days, he just constantly reminds everyone how sick he is. Which is worse than chicks taking a day off.
I voted five because you both suck
Big fucking deal. My neighbor worked for UPS for decades…never took a vacation or sick day. Two years ago, decided to cash in on all of those sick days and hasn’t worked a day since. Once his sick days run out, he’s retiring. Debbie is a dumbass.
Editors note: By ‘my employees’ @RCcola is referring to his mom and his Wii avatars.
kingblackdude is a joke. The dude lives a sad life, he created Twitter and Facebook accounts to with the description “Barstool commented”…. so fucking sad. He’s like a Howard Stern Wackpacker to Barstool Sports. Except Barstool is some nickel and dime website. He is our Gary the Retard.
Only a greedy filthy Jew doesn’t take sick days like is too short to live in fear of the boss Jew. Fietlberg do us all a favor and me t time u see Jew prez plunge a steak knife into his black Jew heart Then kill urself u fake Jew
Prez should fire feitelberg and hire me instead. I’m sure I can post pictures of celebrity asses, talk shit about news stories and give my opinions as if anyone actually gave a fuck at all what I think, and do it all without bitching about being sick. Pay me to write better shitty blogs than his shitty blogs.