Has the world gone mad??

The HR people from work called today. The store has undergone a risk assessment, employee capability and safety analysis, and a corporate culpability investigation and inform me I am well within my rights to sue them for accidental damage while working.
I could be the first person in history to get compensation from an employer after only being there four hours…
I may be a fool, but I told them I wasn’t interested in sueing them. I said I’d rather have a few days off to recover – paid of course – and then come back to work. They have promised me expensive steel-toed boots on my return, and a glowing reference when I leave.
The swelling is down and the pain is handled by aspirin so I have very little to complain about. There’s some interesting bruising and I may lose a toe-nail, but the truth is the main brunt of the impact was felt by the tiled floor. The only thing that came into contact with my tootsies was the visor, which was plastic.
I’m spending my recovery time watching Series 3 of “24” on DVD, and doing my Christmas shopping on the internet. It feels a hell of a lot better to be a lay-about on sick pay, than a loafer with no job sponging off the state.
That’s a reminder – I suppose I should tell the Dole office sometime soon that I’m working..
I’ll put that in my diary for January.

RC 12-11-08
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