(05-07-2019, 10:55 AM)Rico Wrote: So I've actually wanted to start work for the last couple of days because I'm pretty  much bored stiff, sitting on the damn couch with my leg elevated.  JOI was supposed to have my paperwork returned to my employer last Friday.  Unbelievably, there is ONE person in that office that can fill out FMLA paperwork..  They only do it on [BLEEP] Fridays and Tuesdays.  Well guess what?  She was doing clinical reviews on Friday and they never submitted my paperwork so I was not able to start working on Monday.  I spoke with my HR rep at work  and she said that it was required that I had the company paperwork filled out (even though I submitted her the physician's paperwork).  It was apparently not detailed enough for her and she needed the paperwork so that she could see my limitations.  It was for 'the company's protection as well as mine'.  Granted the company I am at is a railroad company, but I'm in [BLEEP] IT.   I'm going to be sitting on my [BLEEP] with my laptop in my lap.  It's pretty damn clear what I'm going to be doing.  So now JOI finally submits my paperwork and I have not heard from HR since telling them it was sent.  I'm hoping there is nothing 'wrong' with it.  Otherwise this whole [BLEEP] cycle will start over again.  This is ridiculous.  I feel like the ball in a game of bureaucratic ping-pong.  I am so [BLEEP] pissed.  I'm only permitted X amount of sick days and if I eat those up I have to use vacation days.  And then it's days without pay.  

/rant

I feel for you.  I have one of my best electronics bench guys on a "leave of absence" because his doctor had said that he needed to be on "light duty".  Our company would not let him work on "light duty" since we have stairs in our building (one of the limitations of his light duty) and he is not supposed to lift more than 30 lbs.  His bench that he SITS at is not upstairs and he works on CIRCUIT BOARDS that weigh at the most 1 lb.  I'm hoping that he is able to come back to work in a couple of weeks.  His was a back surgery not a leg injury, but it's kind of the same thing.

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