The right-pondians may point and laugh now.

[serinde]

Joe's out with the strep that Eli had.

8782 is out with what jdev has, which is what Ed had, which may or may not be what Brian had...

If people could just BLOODY WELL STAY HOME when sick without having to hoard their sick days against the fear of future need, this office would not be a ghost town today.

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[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

True and true, but I still don't quite see where it gets back to billing the person and not everyone, is all.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Instead of everyone taking the cost of the sick time (though less efficiency in the company, or the country at large) the person themselves gets to take the cost; they get a certain number of allowed sick days and then they lose holiday time (which is valuable).
"bill" wasn't a very good word to use there, I should have said "cost". The cost of being ill, in (potential) lost holiday time, is pushed directly to the sick person. Of course they will try to dodge this every time.