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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Why do you think Aflac exists?
If you're a truck driver and you get cataracts that blind you, making you completely incapable of driving a truck, just how many employers do you think are going to just pay you to sit at home? If you're a line worker and you end up getting paralyzed as a result of meningitis; how many companies are going to just keep sending you your paychecks more than a year later?
Pretty much none.
This isn't just an illness thing as it would be for you and I. This is an illness that makes you completely incapable of doing your job in any capacity. You can't compare this to you or I getting cancer - rather you have to have analogs similar to the ones above. If you're working in an environment with scarce resources (here it's cap, in the above analogs consider a break even profit margin), these are the decisions a business has to make.
There's an entire industry dedicated to paying people who come down with illness/injury that makes them incapable of doing their job on a long-term basis and you think I'm the one that's unreasonable?
You're welcome to let raw emotion cloud your judgment. You're right - you wouldn't be working for me.
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Exactly.
When my wife was diagnosed with cancer and missed months of work, her employer didn't continue to pay her for not working. We had to file a claim with Hartford (which was a big pain in the ass because the office manager of the oncologist kept "forgetting" to file the paperwork properly) who covered her salary during the absence.
I'm sure that all Chiefs fans feel for Eric Berry, his diagnosis, treatment and recovery. But the Chiefs organization shouldn't be responsible for a non-football illness and lose valuable Salary Cap space because of his condition because it makes them
less competitive to do so.