| Corporate and Non Corporate America is instilling | | | | It became more of a control mechanism turned scare |
| demands on the people who work for them like never | | | | tactic. |
| before! One such example is the demands of written | | | | The employee, who may or may not have been sick |
| doctors notes when an employee has an absence | | | | enough to see a physician is sitting with a serious |
| from work because he or she was sick or because | | | | problem: he needs an authentic doctors excuse. He |
| of their child?s illness. There was a time when missing | | | | may feel embarrassed to schedule an appointment at |
| work occasionally was understood. Life has a way of | | | | the clinic because he only had a slight fever and cough, |
| happening during work hours sometimes and | | | | but company policy will not allow him to go to work |
| employers recognized this ? and in all fairness, some | | | | either ?coughs spread illness. He?s not really sick |
| still do. But when the economy started becoming a bit | | | | enough to actually go to the doctor and he?s not really |
| more like an episode in a Calamity Jane novel, | | | | sick enough to stay away from work, but policy says |
| employers no longer felt that they could allow | | | | he can?t work and he must have a note. Or he may |
| absences unless they were excused by a written | | | | lose his job. That scenario and ones similar to it shed a |
| doctor?s excuse. | | | | strong light on why the fake doctors sick note started |
| Is it any wonder that people are truly worrying about | | | | becoming the solution. |
| their jobs when you watch the news for even five | | | | It didn?t take much time for the fake doctor?s note to |
| minutes all people hear is that times are tough, things | | | | go into high demand. Online stores began to carry |
| are bad, homes and jobs are being lost. It probably | | | | them because of the real problem they solved. |
| comes as no real surprise that employers are getting | | | | Although there was a time when it made sense to |
| more demanding about people?s work schedules ? | | | | obtain an authentic doctor?s note, if you had to be a |
| they feel at risk too. As unemployment lines appear to | | | | patient for a week, or maybe do some hospital or clinic |
| elongate and people no longer have job security they | | | | outpatient program, it certainly wasn?t logical to do this |
| will do whatever it takes to try and remain secure like | | | | if you just were out for the day. |
| bringing a doctor note to work if they were gone. | | | | Yes, there are times when a person still needs a slip |
| Even if they were not sick. It is commonly known as | | | | from the doctor. And on those occasions he should go |
| the ?CYA Syndrome? (CYA = Cover you?re A_ _) | | | | and get one. But it needs to make sense time-wise, |
| When times were different and jobs were plentiful, | | | | money-wise, and reality-wise. |
| there were still those who may have taken advantage | | | | The obvious solution became these online stores that |
| of the decency of their employers. Thus, to a degree, | | | | provided the printable fake doctor?s note. They?re in a |
| getting a doctor?s note did make sense. Employers | | | | format that looks like the real doctors note. They are |
| had some sort of control mechanism to make sure | | | | so easy to download. Send a blank sample onto your |
| they were not taken advantage of. And, if a person | | | | computer, save the form and print it out whenever you |
| had a serious illness, there was no harm in making sure | | | | need. So easy to copy it from the template and |
| the employer knew ? especially if he or she had to go | | | | customize it to fit your needs. In essence, for a very |
| to the hospital for a week or so. A hospital doctors | | | | small fee, people had the doctor?s release they |
| excuse made sense. The person had a true medical | | | | needed without all the ridiculous demands. |
| situation that required an extended leave. The work | | | | It should come as no small surprise that as employees |
| front was covered, everybody was taken care of. | | | | began seeing so many of these examples online, they |
| But this whole ?needing a doctor?s note? to save | | | | saw that with the ease in getting them, and keeping |
| your job or even for school if you were just out for a | | | | copies of them on their machines, their problem would |
| day soon became a problem for people as well. And it | | | | be much easier to handle the next time they needed a |
| is something that Corporate and non Corporate | | | | doctor?s excuse. |
| America should not have left the requirement in place. | | | | |