LAWYERS...
POSTED BY: citizen
UPDATED: Monday, September 5, 2005 09:07
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Lawyers 1, Common Sense 0. As usual.
"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
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Originally posted by CallMeAth:
If I may bring us back to the subject, I have a funny legal story. And yes, it's true.
My boss's wife was the head of the Human Resources department at her company.
Is that why she WAS the head of HR? Perhaps the company could have helped him with that, or is that a different lawsuit?
I meant, was she to say,"Oh, wait, let me help you with that!" And just where would she have been standing? The "proactive prevention" seemed funny, too.
To be fair, I can imagine his defense - "I was forced to hurry back to work." It still sounds lame. Didn't he have health insurance anyway, and it was a question of which paid? Then, again, I have no sympathy for companies who stiff their staff on benefits, so to speak. I really didn't plan on saying that!
I won't spread this without some documentation, though. DUCES TECUM!
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Originally posted by PietVA:Quote:
Originally posted by CallMeAth:
If I may bring us back to the subject, I have a funny legal story. And yes, it's true.
My boss's wife was the head of the Human Resources department at her company.
Is that why she WAS the head of HR? Perhaps the company could have helped him with that, or is that a different lawsuit?
I won't spread this without some documentation, though. DUCES TECUM!
On the contrary, I mistyped. She is still the head of that company's Human Resource Department.
As for the workman's comp issue, the purpose of workman's comp is not to provide for any and all injuries sustained on the job, but to provide for injuries sustained on the job that could have been prevented by the company, or are a direct result of the work.
There is NOTHING the company could have done to prevent the man from zipping himself up. What were they to do, go into the bathroom and put everything back in place for him? The company was not rude to the employee, nor did they deny short-term disability. They just refused to pay the bill for an injury that was purely the employee's fault.
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PietVA
The apology was not directed at you, oh brainless twit, and I was right you are BOTH.
Why don't you find another board of insecure, ugly, geeky creatures like yourself and leave this one alone? I'm sure you would feel right at home and we won't miss you.
And I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an over-abundance of schooling.
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Originally posted by DucesTecum:
PietVA
The apology was not directed at you, oh brainless twit, and I was right you are BOTH.
Then you are obviously misdirected, as were your parents on the way to the abortion, more's the pity.
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Hi Piet, how are you, good day at work/school?
How's things?
Q: What do you have when you are holding two little green balls in your hand.
A: Kermit's undivided attention.
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Wow, folks! For having started off with a funny story (albeit an urban legend), this thread has gotten astonishingly trollish. Some folk really need to lighten up. See, there are these things called "storytelling" and "fiction", and most folk recognize them as distinct from telling lies, commiting libel, or slandering someone. Devotees of a rather distinctly fictional TV show might be expected to realize that.
But, since y'all have hijacked the initial humor of this thread, I'm gonna go ahead and re-hijack it, and point our that there is actually a serious corollary of this kind of "frivolous lawsuit" story. Big business and its politician handmaidens (who are legion and not restricted to any particular political party) have been using these stories for years to argue for tort reform. And they keep repeating the stories even after they've been proven to be fictional. Now this is what constitutes "lying". (The LA Times did a long story on this a couple of weeks ago, but you have to be a paid subscriber to access stories that old). And ya know what? It's worked. Several states have enacted stringent tort reform, and it's likely that the US Congress will do it during the current administration (which has argued strongly for it). 
perfessergee
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Hi Perfessergee.
Like I said, I didn't really expect people to see this as anything more than a humours story, real or not, not important, as I thought it was obvious that this was meant to be a joke like.
Troll invasions not withstanding.
To be honest though I think the US sue 'em culture could do with a bit of a revamp, no?
Q: What do you have when you are holding two little green balls in your hand.
A: Kermit's undivided attention.
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Originally posted by citizen:
Hi Perfessergee.
Like I said, I didn't really expect people to see this as anything more than a humours story, real or not, not important, as I thought it was obvious that this was meant to be a joke like.
Troll invasions not withstanding.
To be honest though I think the US sue 'em culture could do with a bit of a revamp, no?
Q: What do you have when you are holding two little green balls in your hand.
A: Kermit's undivided attention.
The famous litigiousness of the US could indeed do with a revamp, no question about it. Too many Americans seem to think that they should be compensated any time their expectations aren't realized. But, the kinds of reforms that are being promoted by the corporate world look more like they're trying to shield themselves from the consequences of their actions, regardless of who's at fault. Kind of throwing out the baby with the bathwater. And the continued use of urban legends to promote their agenda has to make one very suspicious........
perfessergee
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Originally posted by citizen:
Hi Piet, how are you, good day at work/school?
How's things?
Citizen: I'm sorry that your funny lawyer story is almost certainly going to end up in Troll Country,
I don't really understand people like this,
Piet joins this board to what? Cause a stink about a joke?
Weird trollish behavior...where are the mods?
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