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Superthread LIX: Honouring Clifford & AG - Will they or won't they?

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Dani

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My sister was on work cover. She was a prison guard and was attacked by a prisoner while clearing a cell one day. Stuffed her back pretty badly. She now gets pins and needles down one side all the time and suffers significant pain after extended stints of doing anything. Even sitting for a long period of time screws her up. Work cover helped her to land a job in the call centre for 000 and the police assistance line. She would work 4 hour shifts which are about as long as she can handle and then work cover would bump up her pay as though she was working 8 hour shifts.

She mentioned the other week that the new Liberal Government have put a stop to this now and she has been made to either take a pay cut or go up to full shifts. Something about a change of work cover policy.

Pretty unfair if you ask me as she wants to work but just can't handle a full day because of an injury obtained in the line of her daily duties.

She could have just refused to work and sued for compensation but she took the fairer route. Now it's come back to bite her on the arse.

I'm guessing what Dani is going through has something to do with this policy change as well?

From what I can understand of the jargon. Because I work instead of sitting on my arse at home they see me as fit (or unfit) for help one year from when I last took time off. Therefore, if I keep taking a bit of work off here and there I should be ok. It is to do with a legislation change and is not judged on a case by case basis.

I am seeking legal advice. A payout is never something I wanted. But my work has demoted me and shipped me to a store thats costing me $150 ( $100 in tolls and am extra tank of petrol) EXTRA in a fortnight pay cycle to get to work.

I don't want extra money. I want enough for my surgery, hospital bills and rehab ect, and 2 years worth of wages, which is how long my recovery will rougly take. I'm so sick of pain.

And I think what a lot of the people dealing with me on a day to day basis don't realise is, it's not just the pain. What are the meds doing to my kidneys...not to mention my stomach/bowels (sorry)? The lack of mobility has put my diabetes up and down and I have stacked on weight, and lets not forget mentally where I am. I've lost all my friends, my life. I can't move back out of home because I can't tie my own shoelaces.

I wanted to study midwifery. Spinal specialist told me not to waste my money.

You don't even wanna know what I was told falling pregnant and carrying a baby would be like for me and what kind of damage natural birth could do.

Even after surgery I will never be pain free. But at least I may have some sort of quality of life back. But hey, at least I'm not in a wheelchair hey...

I hope your sister fights it too.

Sorry for the rant and for the wall of text. I needed to get that off my chest.
 
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From what I can understand of the jargon. Because I work instead of sitting on my arse at home they see me as fit (or unfit) for help one year from when I last took time off. Therefore, if I keep taking a bit of work off here and there I should be ok. It is to do with a legislation change and is not judged on a case by case basis.

I am seeking legal advice. A payout is never something I wanted. But my work has demoted me and shipped me to a store thats costing me $150 ( $100 in tolls and am extra tank of petrol) EXTRA in a fortnight pay cycle to get to work.

I don't want extra money. I want enough for my surgery, hospital bills and rehab ect, and 2 years worth of wages, which is how long my recovery will rougly take. I'm so sick of pain.

And I think what a lot of the people dealing with me on a day to day basis don't realise is, it's not just the pain. What are the meds doing to my kidneys...not to mention my stomach/bowels (sorry)? The lack of mobility has put my diabetes up and down and I have stacked on weight, and lets not forget mentally where I am. I've lost all my friends, my life. I can't move back out of home because I can't tie my own shoelaces.

I wanted to study midwifery. Spinal specialist told me not to waste my money.

You don't even wanna know what I was told falling pregnant and carrying a baby would be like for me and what kind of damage natural birth could do.

Even after surgery I will never be pain free. But at least I may have some sort of quality of life back. But hey, at least I'm not in a wheelchair hey...

I hope your sister fights it too.

Sorry for the rant and for the wall of text. I needed to get that off my chest.

Don't be sorry, Dani.

I can roughly relate to what you're going through - my girlfriend hurt her back, too, and the hoops she's being made to jump through to MAYBE get things sorted one day is a joke.

I hate lawyers - they are scum IMO. Greedy, narcissistic scum. But they are a necessary evil, and I am confident they can help you out.

Stay strong (>")>
 

thorson1987

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Don't be sorry, Dani.

I can roughly relate to what you're going through - my girlfriend hurt her back, too, and the hoops she's being made to jump through to MAYBE get things sorted one day is a joke.

I hate lawyers - they are scum IMO. Greedy, narcissistic scum. But they are a necessary evil, and I am confident they can help you out.

Stay strong (>")>

Isn't Didgi studying law????
 

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What do you call a 1000 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? A good start! haw haw haw
 

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Q: What do you call a smiling, courteous person at a bar association convention?
A: The caterer.


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A: Lipstick.


Q: What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 100?
A: Your Honor.

Q: What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 50
A: Senator.


Q: What's the difference between an accountant and a lawyer?
A: Accountants know they're boring.


Q: What's the one thing that never works when it's fixed?
A: A jury.


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A: So that real estate agents would have someone to look down on.


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A: The vacuum cleaner has the dirt bag on the inside.


Q: What' the difference between a lawyer and a boxing referee?
A: A boxing referee doesn't get paid more for a longer fight.


Q: What's the difference between a good lawyer and a bad lawyer?
A: A bad lawyer makes your case drag on for years. A good lawyer makes it last even longer.


Q: What's the difference between a jellyfish and a lawyer?
A: One's a spineless, poisonous blob. The other is a form of sea life.


Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a trampoline?
A: You take off your shoes before you jump on a trampoline.


Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a leech?
A: After you die, a leech stops sucking your blood.


Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and God?
A: God doesn't think he's a lawyer.


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A: They both look good hanging from a tree.


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A: She has an uncontrollable craving for bologna.


Q: How does an attorney sleep?
A: First he lies on one side, then he lies on the other.


Q: How many lawyer jokes are there?
A: Only three. The rest are true stories.


Q: How many lawyers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Three, One to climb the ladder. One to shake it. And one to sue the ladder company.


Q: What are lawyers good for?
A: They make used car salesmen look good.


Q: What do dinosaurs and decent lawyers have in common?
A: They're both extinct.


Q: What do you call 25 attorneys buried up to their chins in cement?
A: Not enough cement.


Q: What do you call 25 skydiving lawyers?
A: Skeet.


Q: What do you call a lawyer gone bad.
A: Senator.


Q: What do you throw to a drowning lawyer?
A: His partners.


Q: What does a lawyer get when you give him Viagra?
A: Taller


Q: What's brown and looks really good on a lawyer?
A: A Doberman.


Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a liar?
A: The pronunciation.


Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a prostitute?
A: A prostitute will stop screwing you when you're dead.


Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a vulture?
A: The lawyer gets frequent flyer miles.


Q: What's the difference between a mosquito and a lawyer?
A: One is a blood-sucking parasite, the other is an insect.


Q: Why did God make snakes just before lawyers?
A: To practice.


Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a herd of buffalo?
A: The lawyer charges more.


Q: What's the difference between a tick and a lawyer?
A: The tick falls off when you are dead.


Q: What do you get when you cross a blonde and a lawyer?
A: I don't know. There are some things even a blonde won't do.


Q: Know how copper wire was invented?
A: Two lawyers were fighting over a penny.


Q: Why does the law society prohibit sex between lawyers and their clients?
A: To prevent clients from being billed twice for essentially the same service.


Q: What can a goose do, a duck can't, and a lawyer should?
A: Stick his bill up his ass.


Q: How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?
A: Their lips are moving.


Q: Why did New Jersey get all the toxic waste and California all the lawyers?
A: New Jersey got to pick first.


Q: Why don't lawyers go to the beach?
A: Cats keep trying to bury them.


Q: What do you call 5000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A: A good start!


Q: What's the difference between a dead skunk in the road and a dead lawyer in the road?
A: There are skid marks in front of the skunk.


Q: Why won't sharks attack lawyers?
A: Professional courtesy.


Q: What do have when a lawyer is buried up to his neck in sand?
A: Not enough sand.


Q: How do you get a lawyer out of a tree?
A: Cut the rope.


Q: Do you know how to save a drowning lawyer?
A: Take your foot off his head.


Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a bucket of manure?
A: The bucket.


Q: What is the definition of a shame (as in "that's a shame")?
A: When a busload of lawyers goes off a cliff.


Q: What is the definition of a "crying shame"?
A: There was an empty seat.


Q: What do you get when you cross the Godfather with a lawyer?
A: An offer you can't understand


Q: Why is it that many lawyers have broken noses?
A: From chasing parked ambulances.


Q: Where can you find a good lawyer?
A: In the cemetery


Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a gigolo?
A: A gigolo only screws one person at a time.


Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a vampire?
A: A vampire only sucks blood at night.


Q: Why to lawyers wear neckties?
A: To keep the foreskin from crawling up their chins.


Q: What is the difference between a lawyer and a rooster?
A: When a rooster wakes up in the morning, its primal urge is to cluck defiance.


Q: How many law professors does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Hell, you need 250 just to lobby for the research grant.


Q: If you see a lawyer on a bicycle, why don't you swerve to hit him?
A: It might be your bicycle.


Q: What do you call a smiling, sober, courteous person at a bar association convention?
A: The caterer.


Q: Why do they bury lawyers under 20 feet of dirt?
A: Because deep down, they're really good people.


Q: Why are lawyers like nuclear weapons?
A: If one side has one, the other side has to get one. Once launched, they cannot be recalled. When they land, they screw up everything forever.


Q: What do lawyers and sperm have in common?
A: One in 3,000,000 has a chance of becoming a human being.
 

Timmah

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Broke my HDMI cable dammit :x

One screen for me for now :(
 
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