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Re: 12-hr Nite Shift ---> Swing YUK! and MORE YUK


Posted by George Costas on June 20, 2000 at 22:10:21:

In Reply to: Re: 12-hr Nite Shift ---> Swing YUK! posted by awake alex on June 20, 2000 at 18:58:06:

"Awake! For the sun who scatter stars before him from the field of night now strike the sultan's tower with a shaft of light." O Khayam

Alex we have it from the horses mouth. Read what the company doc told harold (posted Sept 19 1999). The doc doesn't tell the half of it though, for example the company doc doesn't talk about the effects on the heart. Clearing people adversly affectd by rotating shifts off the payroll cuts the health insurance premium big time.

Since most the ailments are even more elusive than soft tissue injuries the company can never be held responsible. That's why in the old movies the police used rubber hoses and phonebooks pounded on the interrogatee's head. That is why the international convention against torture of prisoners prohibits sleep deprivation. By the way that is why the ergonomic people are so helpless in defense of workers adversely affected by shift work. It's autotoxicity like bruises on the inside of the brain delivered by a soft muffled club.

We are badly in need of law and that bane of the folk that populate the internet, Government Regulation. BOO

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