I’m a skeptic when it comes to mental issues anyway – coming as I do from a long line of people who “just deal with it” and seem to do just fine – but I really have to beg the question when somebody says that grief makes them unable to work for years. Get over it. Bad things happen and when they do you get over it. Don’t expect the world to cater to you just because you were sad and didn’t feel like working. Buck up and deal. If you don’t want to, we’ll find somebody that will.
Are you kidding me lastbat? Go talk to some mental health professionals. There are many people with serious, debilitating mental illnesses. You are quite simply ingnorant and horribly offensive.
I, on the other hand, believe in mental disabilities, while acknowledging the ease in faking them. Still, there is a limit to how long a company must hold a job for someone who can’t work. 4 years is an extremely long time. How are they to run a business?
I’m with the majority, but I will say that mental illnesses do exist that could prohibit a person from working. That said, I think the airlines went above and beyond what was legally and morally required by giving her a four year furlough. And, as someone mentioned, four years wasn’t enough but five years was? AND, why would she want to go back to the same flight where this atrocity occurred?
Evidently, malingering is alive and well. They should have canned her had she remained AWOL for a week. This was nothing more than a well-orchestrated get rich quick scheme.
The only sad part about it is that apparently the employer/insurer folded and paid her.
Although I am not a practicing medical professional, I have figured out the prescription that has healed this poor woman – a big fat lawsuit. Money has an amazing healing power. Sell your Prozac stock and invest in a plaintif law firm.
JB – I am an admitted skeptic, and far better that than not. Last I checked grief was not a mental illness, it’s a state of mind. While PTSD has been declared a valid mental disorder, what’s the objective test for it? Show me the science behind proving it and I’ll jump right on board that she couldn’t just pull herself up by her bootstraps. The thing is, there are so few objective tests for any mental illness. There have been studies put out in the past few years saying that 80% of American men are depressed and should be treated. Really? 80%? I find that hard to believe because the last time I looked most American men were doing just fine and dandy. We are way too quick to assume people have a mental disorder, way to quick to prescripe drugs, way to quick to hobble and enable people who just need to be told “Get over it!”
My ex was supposedly chemically depressed – couldn’t even leave the house for years. That is, until I came along and told her that wouldn’t fly if she wanted to be with me. Nothing changed in her life except she no longer had someone enabling her. In a couple short months she went from shut-in to going wherever we wanted, whenever we wanted. Tell me she had a real problem.
I’m a skeptic for a reason. And I’m tough on people who say that what’s going on in their head prevents them from working for a reason. Because they need it. We need it. We lost something when things stopped becoming a personal responsibility. We lost something when it was no longer our fault we weren’t supporting ourselves. We can get it back by simply standing up and taking care of business. It’s old school, it’s John Wayne, it’s harsh – but it works.
I could go on, but we all have to work and this reply is too long as it is. Please forgive any typos as I’m trying to type fast while I’m on lunch.
I agree that this person must have had a fear of going back to work – some people are not cut out for some types of work to begin with. I have a fear of flying – being a flight attendant is clearly not a plausible career path for me. In my opinion, this person should have been given a reasonable amount of paid time (2 weeks, 30 days maybe?) to find alternate employment.
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I’m a skeptic when it comes to mental issues anyway – coming as I do from a long line of people who “just deal with it” and seem to do just fine – but I really have to beg the question when somebody says that grief makes them unable to work for years. Get over it. Bad things happen and when they do you get over it. Don’t expect the world to cater to you just because you were sad and didn’t feel like working. Buck up and deal. If you don’t want to, we’ll find somebody that will.
Stuff like this make sme sick.
Are you kidding me lastbat? Go talk to some mental health professionals. There are many people with serious, debilitating mental illnesses. You are quite simply ingnorant and horribly offensive.
Agreed…fascinating how she wasn’t ready after a four-year absence, but five years away did the trick.
I, on the other hand, believe in mental disabilities, while acknowledging the ease in faking them. Still, there is a limit to how long a company must hold a job for someone who can’t work. 4 years is an extremely long time. How are they to run a business?
Really JB? How many people with debilitating mental illness, who cannot report to work for years, can your firm afford to hire?
I’m with the majority, but I will say that mental illnesses do exist that could prohibit a person from working. That said, I think the airlines went above and beyond what was legally and morally required by giving her a four year furlough. And, as someone mentioned, four years wasn’t enough but five years was? AND, why would she want to go back to the same flight where this atrocity occurred?
Evidently, malingering is alive and well. They should have canned her had she remained AWOL for a week. This was nothing more than a well-orchestrated get rich quick scheme.
The only sad part about it is that apparently the employer/insurer folded and paid her.
Although I am not a practicing medical professional, I have figured out the prescription that has healed this poor woman – a big fat lawsuit. Money has an amazing healing power. Sell your Prozac stock and invest in a plaintif law firm.
JB – I am an admitted skeptic, and far better that than not. Last I checked grief was not a mental illness, it’s a state of mind. While PTSD has been declared a valid mental disorder, what’s the objective test for it? Show me the science behind proving it and I’ll jump right on board that she couldn’t just pull herself up by her bootstraps. The thing is, there are so few objective tests for any mental illness. There have been studies put out in the past few years saying that 80% of American men are depressed and should be treated. Really? 80%? I find that hard to believe because the last time I looked most American men were doing just fine and dandy. We are way too quick to assume people have a mental disorder, way to quick to prescripe drugs, way to quick to hobble and enable people who just need to be told “Get over it!”
My ex was supposedly chemically depressed – couldn’t even leave the house for years. That is, until I came along and told her that wouldn’t fly if she wanted to be with me. Nothing changed in her life except she no longer had someone enabling her. In a couple short months she went from shut-in to going wherever we wanted, whenever we wanted. Tell me she had a real problem.
I’m a skeptic for a reason. And I’m tough on people who say that what’s going on in their head prevents them from working for a reason. Because they need it. We need it. We lost something when things stopped becoming a personal responsibility. We lost something when it was no longer our fault we weren’t supporting ourselves. We can get it back by simply standing up and taking care of business. It’s old school, it’s John Wayne, it’s harsh – but it works.
I could go on, but we all have to work and this reply is too long as it is. Please forgive any typos as I’m trying to type fast while I’m on lunch.
I agree that this person must have had a fear of going back to work – some people are not cut out for some types of work to begin with. I have a fear of flying – being a flight attendant is clearly not a plausible career path for me. In my opinion, this person should have been given a reasonable amount of paid time (2 weeks, 30 days maybe?) to find alternate employment.