Nice non-work if you can get it!

[cromwell]

A man has been on the sick for fifteen years!

https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/13/it-worke ... -18777504/

Surely this is a world record?

[Kaz]

What does “house closed” mean? I have never heard that term before

[cromwell]

I don't know either Kaz, I've linked to the wrong story..

I've fixed it now.

[Workingman]

I managed to find it by scrolling down the list of articles.

It is between the man and IBM. Nowhere does it say what his disability / illness is nor what caused it That's telling! If IBM are culpable then it is right they pay.

At least at the level of his payment he will not, or should not, be getting any social security benefits.

[Kaz]

I don't know either Kaz, I've linked to the wrong story..

I've fixed it now.

Ah no worries - easily done! I think he’s a lucky man, most companies are nowhere near as generous!

[Suff]

Oddly enough I know this guy and worked with him. I worked with Lotus development (Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and the UK) and IBM UK and Sweden from 1997 to 2001. So he was new there when I met him.

What they are not saying here is that the long term sick was index linked originally but as IBM pared back contracts and payments it was removed between when IBM finally absorbed Lotus and when he finally went on long term sick. So his expectation might have been index linked but was unaware that it had been removed.

The article is factually wrong, IBM bought Lotus in the mid 90's so he joined an IBM company in 2000. Not a company that was later bought out by IBM.

At least he was not on the Philips DIAMOND project in 1998. Most Loti on that project ended it with potential liver damage from the insane amount of alcohol they drank....