'Light duty' is quickly becoming history in most companies..........there are a number of reasons you'll hear, but one you won't is more and more people are milking light duty just to get out out of work. ¨Push carts? No way, MY BACK HURTS.¨
Sure, no probs. Here's some good news: stay home. Til we've racked up enough points to FIRE you.
we had a guy who hurt his back while doing utility and has been on 'light duty' for over a month now. so now the store never gets clean. oh they put him cutting fruit with front end hours for awhile. /sigh
Light Duty = Pay me to do essentially nothing. The military has the same thing with "profiles". Essentially, you can say it hurts when you run, jump, work, lift, anything but breathe, and they will typically write you a profile for it. So you get payed to basically exist. It's horse****.
While I was a cashier at Kroger I had doctors' notes twice for light duty. They let me be cashier. My job I always do. I was actually schedule Drug/GM one day for 4 hours to condition and do light work, mark downs, etc. The Nazi comanager found out and pulled me to the front and made me stay on the register, the big lane. With no bagger. So I just went real slow and worked with one hand lol! She was sooooo mad. Oh well!
The real problem is, there's plenty of legit cases where people truly are too disabled to handle their normal duties, and they really do want to work and be responsible. But like so many other abused situations, slackers are helping ruin light duty.
My management team and I are right now dealing with a young guy who is absolutely playing the system like a damn pimp. He's claiming back injury........even tho he's too dumb to even fake a limp. He's part minority status and has already made noises about lawyering up, so we have to handle this $hit more delicately than brain surgery. Got him answering phones and doing returns (what Kroger calls go backs), etc., etc., blah--blah--bull$hit bull$hit. And all we can do is document, deal with worker's comp, wait this all out.......and hope he'll either go back to his real job eventually, or hand us the gun to shoot him with.
I get hurt at work lifting milk crate of course with milk in them, filed claim said I had what was called a disease of life and that it was not a working three and that I would need to treat it with my personal insurance I did so now I need to have neck surgery nerve damage lost my job while I was on medical leave without pay And I'm still waiting for Kroger's to review my medical records because they have not one cent me to any doctor I paid over $500 out of my pocket what do I do? And I was told Kroger's does not have workers comp so this whole time I've been sitting at home a broke bitch and I've been fired in that nice but yet I got reinstated But that's not the point what do I do