I know a lot people think Bill Clinton did a wonderful thing by passing the Family Medical Leave Act but so far my experience with it is bullshit. The only people I've known to use it are lazy motherfuckers who don't want to work. Our building and maintenance guy uses FMLA at least once a week! Oddly enough these days seem to always fall on a Monday or Friday. Hmmmmm....what a strange coincidence! Oh yeah, my favorite was the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday. ( He is a major football fan).
The other day he left a teeny-tiny note attached to the opening librarian's office door that stated:
"I was here for an hour this morning. I turned on the computers and took out the garbage then went to the hospital."
Apparently he has diabetes and a doctor who is very generous with notes for his absence.
I'm kinda thinking smoking Swishers, eating fried foods, being overweight and possibly drinking alcohol isn't helping your supposed illness.
The hilarious part of this pathetic situation is that the head of the childrens department hates this guy. She can't stand that he gets away with this shit because of FMLA. She rides his ass all the time waiting for him to fuck-up so she can get his ass fired. So, naturally he calls out sick (using FMLA) when she is opening the library. She can't take it because then she has to do the garbage throughout the branch. One day she asked the rest of the staff (myself included) to help out with the garbage. It is specifically stated in our union contract that trash is not one of our duties. We all looked at her and walked away. She was a little miffed so I told her that she wasn't obligated to do the trash either. She responded, "Well, somebody has to do it." Actually, no, somebody doesn't have to do it because we also pay a cleaning service that arrives after the branch closes.
FMLA is crap. Thanks Bill Clinton for enabling even more laziness in the workplace. You're a dick.