HBA1c how should it be done?

But surely you're not expected to take that from holiday time etc?

Unless you're a contractor in which case you're scuppered!

i find this curious, as an employer of people would you say i should descriminate against employing someone for having diabetes? no of course not is your answer but then you dont think i should not pay the person for having time off of work for blood tests etc? hmmmm what should i do what should i do lol

ps i pay sick pay my company is in construction and have never docked money for appts etc and apart from me i dont have any diabetic staff but hyperthetically i would be stupid to employ someone with a medical condition that required payed time off, would i not?

lol ok from now on im only employing people that are male (maternity leave) between the ages of 37 and 41 that are too ugly to find partners and have children and only after a complete medical

Andy12345 said:

lol ok from now on im only employing people that are male (maternity leave) between the ages of 37 and 41 that are too ugly to find partners and have children and only after a complete medical

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Sounds legitimate to me

My work were probably pretty raging at my diagnosis. I had only been recently hired and was meant to be in an offshore role..... My first trip with them was meant to be 2 weeks post diagnosis. Obviously I've not made it off yet haha!

i had a fella that came to work for us and my interview technique isnt what you might call athodox, we have a cup of tea, i tell em how hard they have to work and how cold it is in winter, chat about football and if i like em they get the job, we make granite worktops etc so its an awful lot of heavy lifting as i explained to him, well 2 days into the job hes clutching hes back and i ask have you hurt your back? no he says ive had it for years, so i say why didnt you tell me? he said "you didnt ask" lol terrific

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Hale I'm sure you can appreciate I feel like I need to work twice as hard to look half as good!
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Oh yes! I have the label of graduate to contend with also. Surely one day we'll be accepted like the men......

Engineer88 said:

thats great Yorksman, but what about the paitent? and the cost of the nurse appointment, my half day lost from work and everything else?

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You're talking to the wrong bloke then. I'm self employed so any time lost is money lost.

But, I value my health more. I have a couple of options; use the practice nurse or take the form and present at blood collection at the hospital. One the occasions where the queue at the hospital has been too long, I have gone to another hospital in the same trust. I keep the phone nos. handy and call and ask what the queues are like. They are invariably longest going to work or coming home from work. I accept that other people want these things too and if I choose convenience, either at the start or end of the working day, I will lose time. If I want to avoid losing too much time, I can go during the day. My GP practice also run an evening surgery where I can go if I really want to. I prefer however to put my feet up.

At the end of the day I am thankful that I have options and don't really see how they could be improved. They ain't going to come to my house on a sunday morning.

Andy12345 said:

we make granite worktops etc

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My mate called me early one sunday morning and said he was on a job in the Dales and had to pick something up in Wolds. Did I fancy a drive out in the countryside.

It was a huge granite top. He was economical with the truth too.

Engineer88 said:

Yeah me too. Just not in my signature

I don't know if well ever get there. But ill die tryin


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I'm very lucky that I'm now in a job which isn't usually given to graduates so most of the time people don't know, but my manager likes to bring it up at the oddest of times!