WorkCover Funny Funnies
Seen or heard or experienced something outrageous(ly) funny with WorkCover? Share it with us all!
Note: for more workcover fun as previously posted on our blog, please search under the “FUN” category.
Use these for your answering machine
Hi! I’m probably home, I’m just avoiding someone I don’t like. Leave me a message and if I don’t call back, it’s you.
I don’t know if this should go under funnies or under our insult us here page!
Found this WorkCover QLD Customer Adviser who thinks it’s FUN
Listening to our seriously injured difficulties with our claims and complaints sounds really fun, yeah…
FUN return to work WorkCover jobs, anyone heard of that one?
Must be YOUNG and FUN…
Is that not discrimination?
The number 1 work-related injury
What does this picture say? Understanding the facts about personal injury at work and worker’s compensation can prepare you in the event an injury does occur. It is important to know your rights as an employee. Taking the appropriate actions from getting medical attention to finding every dirty little tactic used by workcover insurance companies!
Things you don’t want to hear in surgery
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Allie – Allianz chatbot
Callie Allie chat bot as in robot, WTF! Oh well, we though pretty much all ah ah ahhh (especiallyworkcover) insurance case managers were chatbots 
Boycott by Workcover Victims Victoria
You may have picked up on our “insult us here” page that Workcover Victims Victoria has apparently “boycotted” our site as of 2 April 2012, for no reason other than insane jealousy of aworkcovervictimsdiary.com’s sucess. (we believe).
Interestingly, and perhaps hilariously funny, is that whilst our site is “boycotted” Workcover Victims Victoria’s blog Author, Joanne, is re-tweeting our tweets – ha!
As you can see from the above example, Workcover Victims Victoria re-tweeted 2 of our tweets on 4 April 2012, our original tweets were re-tweeted first by our very good friends Q42X and then re-tweeted by Workcover Victims Victoria, ha ha ha
Lost workcover mobile phone – WTF
We wonder who the owner could be? Could it be a drunken CEO or former Chairman on a drunken binge, celebrating the cutting back of injured worker benefits, who has lost their mobile?
“Found a Blackberry phone on Sunday on the Central Coast of NSW. It belongs to sum1 at _workcover_. I am mailing it back 2 u 2day”
URL: https://twitter.com/charlietech/statuses/194199329433595904
Note that this mobile likely has access to WorkCover’s corporate email systems. A certain reporter should not be mailing it back in (straight away), but should be handing it to Channel 9′s investigative reporters.
Our slogan
One of our great and artistic supporters converted our slogan “injured at work, disabled by workcover” into this “stunning” graphic
The Ahh tooth fairy
WorkCover Karma
Courtesy from @workcoverwatch:
Work from home, become an @Allianz_Au private investigator! “find creative solutions” https://www.careers.allianz.com.au/jobtools/jncustomsearch.viewFullSingle?in_organid=14679&in_jnCounter=222237765 … Creative solutions = Lie
Why hire qualified people when you can “up-skill claims staff in the management of psychological injuries”? https://www.careers.allianz.com.au/jobtools/jncustomsearch.viewFullSingle?in_organid=14679&in_jnCounter=222237678 … #wtf
Courtesy from Jo via Facebook
Bizarre but allegedly real workcover claims
Many years ago I received a WC report on a young lady who was rather endowed. Somehow she was leaning over and she pinched her nipple in a desk drawer as she was closing it. Her supervisor (also a female), in the action taken to prevent a reoccurence, wrote “Employee was advised to wear a bra.” Absolute truth.
I had the most unforgettable work comp claim. I had an employee (a nurse, no less!) who claimed she tore a rotator cuff while…ummm, while “wiping herself off” after going to the restroom.
I’m sure some claims arise from an employee’s victim — or entitlement — mentality. I read the case of an employee in who sought to collect Workers’ Comp for psychiatric injury allegedly resulting from harassment and persecution by her supervisor and co-workers. While it could be the basis of a legitimate claim, what the state Workers’ Comp Appeals Board found was that it was the employee who harassed and persecuted her co-workers; any psychological stress she experienced resulted from their “disdainful reactions” to her mistreatment of them. “To allow an employee to harass co-workers and, when they respond unfavorably, to claim a stress-related injury to the employee’s psyche would increase…claims and create the potential for abuse of the system,” wrote an appeals court in upholding the board’s decision to deny the claim.
Courtesy of Dave via our Forum
Evolution of a Case Manager – courtesy of Dave (via forum)
Weird workcover injuries
My head injuries have created a permanent increase in libido which has led to two affairs and has ruined my marriage.
I got my right hand first finger in the saw while helping Mike and staying out of his way. My finger bled and it affected my mind.
I chipped my tooth on a cookie while visiting a customer.
While on duty, I was hit in the face by a hand. My glasses were broke and something hit my eye. No one believes I was hit but it hurt!
Hot grease splashed on me and fried my thumb.
I was working on my job and got a pain at the the end of the week.
Accident unnecessarily occurred on account of a misjudgment.
I ran down the steps and when I got to the end, my feet wouldn’t stop.
I had my hand in the machine while the air was off. Someone turned on switches and folded my hand.
I was assaulted and attacked by a vicious employee because he didn’t like me and I know it.
The patient was going to fall for me. I could not let this happen. In so preventing this, I caused myself damage to my knee.
This is for the cut on my hand, but I took the stitches out myself. However, I am filing on account of the watchdog biting me and on account of a hurt I got in a fall in the paint shop.
In performing the job of which I am capable, I didn’t know the machine was on and was showing my new helper what not to do and did.
I was proving that I could carry an air compressor and I strained my back.
I looked into the hose to see why the water did not come out. It came.
I sprained my ankle the same way I sprained my ankle before.
I hit my arm against the hopper, and got flea bites.
That night I done something I shouldn’t-a done and now my back hurts.
A gate hit my foot while my back was turned, closing the other side.
Customer thought she needed the brakes adjusted. She drove the car into the station, could not stop the car, came through the door and pinned claimant against the cash register.
I was removing a blouse for a customer and which time I injured my back.
I inherited this occupational disease.
Acting on behalf of my employer, I hit another automobile.
In order to avoid a person, Betty lost her balance and fell down. In one hand she had a ketchup botttle which broke on impact, cutting her hand. In the other hand she had her thumb.
I overasserted myself and got a hernia.
The doctor gave me a disease for my occupation and said I must change jobs.
Gears smashed thumb while holding air cleaner, while putting nipple on with right hand, while balancing air cleaner with left hand, while holding end with left hand away from right hand. Gears were not covered.
I didn’t know water was where I fell.
I fell down in the Fotomat booth while dislocating my knee.
Sustained back injury due to car accident which is part of his job.
Falling off the truck, I dislocated my pelvis and other male organs.
I slipped and fell and hurt everything in me.
I dropped my head on my foot when someone pushed their guts across the table without calling out (from a slaughterhouse employee).
The fumes were so bad I was taken by them and went to bed with the doctor.
The guy I work with went ape s4%t. He hauled off and punched me in the jaw and then tried to rip my throat out.
Carrying roll roofing, I caught my toe on a piece of tin that was froze in the ground. The tin flipped against me causing me to trip, letting the roofing fall into the bucket of tar. Tar splashed out, burning my arm, and causing me to jump back into the ladder which fell against me, knocking me into the building, breaking my tooth. Thus I burned, bumped, and broke me.
A real workcover claim letter
This is an accident report, which was printed in the newsletter of the British equivalent of the Workers’ Compensation Board. This is the bricklayer’s report, a true story. Had this guy died, he’d have walked away with a Darwin Award for sure!
Dear Sir,
I am writing in response to your request for additional information in Block 3 of the accident report form. I put “Poor Planning” as the cause of my accident. You asked for a fuller explanation and I trust the following details will be sufficient. I am a bricklayer by trade.
On the day of the accident, I was working alone on the roof of a new six-story building. When I completed my work, I found I had some bricks left over which, when weighed later, were found to be slightly in excess of 500 lbs. Rather than carry the bricks down by hand, I decided to lower them in a barrel by using a pulley, which was attached to the side of the building at the sixth floor. Securing the rope at the ground level, I went down and untied the rope, holding tightly to ensure a slow descent of the bricks.
You will note that in Block 11 of the accident report form that my weight is 135 lbs. Due to my surprise at being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and forgot to let go of the rope. Needless to say, I proceeded at a rapid rate up the side of the building. In the vicinity of the 3rd floor, I met the barrel, which was now proceeding downward at an equally impressive speed.
This explains the fractured skull, minor abrasions and the broken collarbone as listed in Section 3 of the accident report form.
Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent, not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two knuckles deep into the pulley. Fortunately by this time I had regained my presence of mind and was able to hold tightly to the rope, in spite of the excruciating pain I was now beginning to experience. At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of bricks hit the ground and the bottom fell out of the barrel. Now devoid of the weight of the bricks, that barrel weighed approximately 50 lbs. I refer you again to my weight. As you might imagine, I then began a rapid descent, down the side of the building. In the vicinity of the 3rd floor, I met the empty barrel coming up.
This accounts for the two fractured ankles, broken tooth and severe lacerations of my legs and lower body.
Here my luck began to change slightly. The encounter with the barrel seemed to slow me enough to lessen my injuries when I fell into the pile of bricks and fortunately only three vertebrae were cracked. I am sorry to report, however, as I lay there on the pile of bricks, in pain, unable to move, I again lost my composure and presence of mind and let go of the rope and lay there watching the empty barrel begin its journey back onto me.
This explains the two broken legs.
Regards,
George Smith
Understanding computers and our recent Dos attack for Dummies
Wonder if my CM does this?
To whom it may concern
Don’t we all have had this…ahhh… feeling?
Could this be a CM’s brain xray?
A suggested gift for your CM
Could this be another private investigator?
Must be the Advisory Service hotline
We agree!
Re boycott of Workcover Victims Victoria – the woman who runs this crappy site is a very bitter and indeed insanely jealous person. S/he did a similar “review” of our blog (now long taken down) a year or two ago as she could not bear that someone else had started a blog for injured workers and accuse me of all sorts of lies. Although s/he keeps repeatedly “boasting” about her unheard-of achievements, the fact of the matter is that s/he never had her blog published or even acknowledged anywhere that I have seen. Unlike you guys, who seem to get published spontaneously in popular magazines in Canada and even the UK! I also noticed that your fantastic blog was also written up and reviewed by/ in the fixthetac website, in http://www.pudendalnerve.com.au/, and also in the daring and fabulous http://www.hereticpress.com/Editorials/Editorial09.html#. I also congratulate aworkcovervictimsdiary for having been recognised by the W.I.R.C leader and more recently you were personally recognised, visited and now also supported by Erin Brockovich. Yeah, right… I wonder who has credibility here and who has not!
So here you are, having collaboration from all the relevant, popular related sites and you also have a pro bono lawyer on board I see + the Erin Brockovich!!!! Wonderful!
Just be very wary of workcover victims victoria’s author , s/he’ll just about kill out of jealousy – but that’s my personal opinion. Best is not to come near him/her. Besides who wants to involved with a person who so blatantly and maliciously (really) trashes other people’s blogs?!
I was frankly shocked that s/he dared to ask you for money to display that “guide” (badly written and the info is much better covered on this site for example!) but offering it for “free”to her/his injured readers!? How does that work? You (administrators and bloggers) are clearly seriously injured (from the pics and stories) and 90% of you readers are injured workers but you must all PAY? How weird?!
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that s/he did exactly the same to me (my blog) in virtually the exact same manner (I believe her/his personal opinion is still up on her/his pathetic blog). And you are right, what it did was only increase my blog’s popularity and decrease her/shis – just as is happening now.
I have been watching closely and noticed that ever since 2 April she/he has maintained 335 followers whereas you blog has gained about 50 (now > 1000!).
I’d say keep up the fantastic work. Your site is a god sent to injured workers. Don’t be intimidated by workcover victims victoria, they are a nobody (s/he just wants to be a wannabe but is failing miserably with her/his jaded attitude).
+1 to all that above!
I have tried to post a comment on that site several times to give that person a piece of MY opinion, however It never gets published (always “moderated” and censored/unpublished).I just noticed that one is no longer able to comment no – it says “you need to be a team member to post a comment”. What does this say folks? Yep – that this blog is overwhelmed with NEGATIVE comments.
BTW it appears that she has removed the “we are currently boycotting aworkcovervictimsdiary-please do the same” from her front page – left side column! Ha ha ha.
Have you got what it takes? WorkSafe inspector recruitment underway
WorkSafe kicked off its inspector recruitment campaign this week and is encouraging those who want to help keep Victoria the safest place to work in Australia to apply….
Typically, inspectors have a good understanding of and experience implementing Victorian Occupational Health & Safety legislation. Tertiary qualifications in OH&S are not mandatory, [WTF] but preferred. Successful candidates undergo a comprehensive induction program.
http://www.safetyinaustralia.com.au/safety-news/7565-have-you-got-what-it-takes-worksafe-inspector-recruitment-underway.html
WorkSafe vic has money to spend on making soccer balls with their logo, but they don’t have money to even pay for my medication.
Besides,what on earth has soccer or footy to do with WorkSafe? What message is associated with footy? Safe work?Quick injury claim settlements? Great care of injured people? Or alcohol & violence? Politics, sponsorships and arse-licking so WorkSafe employees get to go to the corporate “boxes” and footy events?
What a fucking joke!
The lost mobile phone could well be Barry-the-butcher’s!!!! Out celebrating the cutting back of injured workers meager “benefits”, perhaps he was drunk, on a beach…?
[Thank you None or the tip
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PS WCVictim is unwell – very very sore today, has not slept from pain ;( Says hi + kisses to all readers and visitors. XXXOOOXXX
WTF? Who’s is this? Did a devil take posession of a certain lady?
https://t.co/3IiBeKAV
OMG ! Not sure if it belongs to the funnies or the insult page !
you are a disgrace!!
how sick is she?!
Funny workcover injury…?!! May the Butcher get one copying his nazi bill!
Or… may “he” suffer this…
I have wished this so so much upon my case manager in my wildest dreams! Still waiting for Karma to tick of my list of people
What do you call 1,000 case manager at the bottom of the ocean? — A start!!!
How come they bury Case manager 300 feet in the ground? — Deep down they are really good people.
What do you call a social worker who drinks too much? — A case manager.
Hear about the case manager firing squad? They stood in a circle.
What is the difference between God and a case manager?
– God doesn’t pretend to be a case manager
– God is unapologetically judgmental.
– God admits the Case manager could be wrong.
– God tells his clients that Case managers do exist.
– God will talk to a health worker
– God CAN be shocked.
[Thank you Trinny for sending this one in
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I read a funny story about a worker’s compensation case, says injured worker “A” in our forum, that went to court many decades ago….. told from the point of view of a barrister defending the injured worker, this might make you laugh. hey, we all need a laugh don’t we? feel free to add it to the blog, hope it might make some other folks smile.
This story was told in the context of the barrister’s rule that you should never ask a vital question, to which you do not know the answer. In this case, the rule was broken, and with some terribly good luck, had a great outcome for the injured worker in a worker’s compensation case.
The barrister was acting for a man who had been injured by a circus elephant. The elephant was chained to a stake and the barrister’s client was the attendant whose job it was to clean up ‘all the bull*$%t’, and cart it away to be used as manure. One day he went up close to the animal and pushed it ‘because the elephant was standing on a particularly delectable clump’, and the elephant picked him up in his trunk and threw him against a car, and he was badly injured.
The man sued the circus. When called to the witness box, the circus manager said that the attendant had not shoved the elephant, but that he ‘had poked the elephant in the balls with his fork’, and the animal had reacted instinctively to the pricks.
The barrister continues: I cross examined this fellow up-hill and down-dale and I couldn’t break his story at all. He kept to his story. And right at the end I asked a question that I shouldn’t have because I didn’t know the answer. I said to him, “What is the elephant’s name?”. Quick as a bloody flash, he said “Alice”. So all the jury started to laugh. That was the end of that case.
Courtesy from “A” via our Forum
I don’t know if this is really funny or not – pretty gross and disgusting and nothing to do with workcover but to do with bizarre lawyers:
Did you ‘ear about the licking lawyer?
Anyone wondering how to totally freak out a client (and possibly get arrested in the process) should take a lesson from Hawaiian lawyer Lawrence McCreery.
McCreery, 64, was found guilty of harassment after a former client testified that, while discussing her child custody case last year, he licked the back of her right ear, CBS News reported.
Can Folklaw just say one thing here? Gross. I mean, really, whispering sweet nothings into someone’s ear I get, but licking? Even if the other party is a willing participant that does not sound too appealing…
The other (unwilling) party in this case was a 21-year-old woman (yes folks, less than a third McCreery’s age), who said the lusty lawyer preceded the licking by touching her arm, telling her she “looked so good” and it was “too bad” she was married.
She testified that McCreery then made a “weird sound” and hugged her tightly before licking her.
This story is just all kinds of wrong.
McCreery denied licking his victim and said she initiated the hug. However, he failed to convince Per Diem Fifth Circuit District Court Judge Frank Rothschild, who fined McCreery $US250.
Folklaw can only agree with the judge, who described the licking as “the actions of a dirty old man”.
A weird dirty old man.
McCreery’s lawyer said he plans to appeal.
http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/folklaw/did-you-%E2%80%98ear-about-the-licking-lawyer
Another creepy lawyer story (from same great webiste as above: lawyers’ weekly)
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas … unless it happens in a jail’s visiting room that has CCTV.
That is what Nevada-based lawyer Curtis Cannon discovered to his cost after he was arrested for having sexual contact with a client who was incarcerated at Clark County Detention Centre (CCDC).
There must have been hanky-panky going on there on a regular basis as, after receiving a tip-off about possible misconduct, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) installed a hidden camera in the visiting room, KTNV reported.
The camera caught Cannon, 58, having oral sex performed on him by inmate Crystal Wallis during a contact visit. Folklaw feels sorry for the cop who had to review that tape…
At one point during the video Cannon is also seen giving Wallis a high five. What a gent.
Wallis admitted to the liaison when questioned and revealed she had also kissed Cannon once before during a previous visit.
However, Cannon denied the allegations when contacted by LVMPD officers and insisted he was a “good boy”. Cannon clearly really wanted to get away from the accusation as he also revealed to officers that he was unable to get an erection due to medication and that he and his wife had not had sex for 14 years.
Folklaw knows lawyers like to talk, but really, that is just too much information.
However, when the cops told Cannon they had a video recording of his visit with Wallis, he admitted what had taken place.
Cannon and Wallis were both charged with voluntary sexual conduct between a prisoner and another person.
After being charged, Cannon was booked into the CCDC.
Folklaw presumes he was put in solitary confinement…
A lawyers joke – but pretty spot on, huh
The Pope and a lawyer find themselves together before the Pearly Gates. After a little polite small talk, St. Peter shows up to usher them to their new Heavenly station.
After passing out wings, harps, halos and such, St. Peter shows them t
o their new lodgings. Peter brings them down on the front lawn of a huge palatial estate with all sorts of lavish trappings. This, Peter announces, is where the lawyer will be spending eternity.
“Holy Mary”, the Pope thinks, “If he’s getting a place like this, I can hardly wait to see my heavenly reward!”
Peter leads the way but the landscape below begins to appear more and more mundane until they finally land on a street lined with brownstone houses.
Pete indicates that the third stairs on the left will take the Pope to his new domicile and turns to leave, wishing the Pontiff his best. The Pope is quite taken aback and cries out, “Hey Peter! What’s the deal here? You put that lawyer in a beautiful estate home and I, spiritual leader of the whole world end up in this dive?”
Peter looks at the Pontiff with amusement and replies, “Look here old fellow, this street is practically encrusted with spiritual leaders from many times and from many religions. We’re putting you here with them so you can all get together and discuss dogma and philosophy. That other guy gets an elegant estate, because he’s the first lawyer EVER to make it up here!”
LOL at Callie, Allianz chatbot. What were they thinking?
Public Restrooms
When you’re out and about, and you use a public restroom, you expose yourself to infinite chances of danger. This is why it is your responsibility to know your restroom, plan ahead, and take action. Even if you’re in there for only 5 minutes, you’ve got to protect yourself! And I will show you how.
BEFORE ENTERING THE RESTROOM
Only enter a public restroom that has either a “MEN”/”WOMEN” sign on it. Signs that say “BOYS”/”GIRLS”, “LADS”/”LASSES”, “PRINCES”/”PRINCESSES”, etc., are actually signs of extreme danger. You may not fit any of those characteristics, and the room behind that door may not be for you.
After observing the sign, announce to as many bystanders as possible that you’re going in. This will make them aware that you’re in danger if it strikes, and you will be rescued that much quicker.
Thoroughly check every nut, bolt, and screw for every fixture in the restroom. Also check the plumbing. It would be a shame to die under the collapse of a toilet stall or to the sink falling off the wall.
Wear a gas mask. The most common stenches of a typical restroom are cigarette smoke and poop gas. You don’t need to breathe that stinking filth.
Wear protective gloves. You must be prepared for the germs that await you beyond that door.
Have a popsicle stick handy. The soap in the dispensers may be toxic. Dispense the liquid soap onto the popsicle stick to test for safety. If the popsicle stick does not melt, then the soap is safe for human skin.
Remember to bring your own roll of toilet paper. The restroom toilet paper could be tainted with poison ivy coating or acid spray.
WHILE IN THE RESTROOM
restroom safety
If you must enter a restroom that has windows, make sure the windows serve well as privacy windows. Make sure they’re glazed in some way. You don’t need to put up with people outside watching as you do your duties.
Upon entering the restroom, spray a can of anti-bacterial air freshener everywhere! Use the whole can.
If there are others in the restroom with you, make little noise as possible. Refrain from sighs and moans of relief, and zip your pants quietly. You don’t want to draw attention.
Do not talk to anyone in a public restroom. He/she could be a serial killer, a druggie, or a cannibal.
Before using a toilet or urinal, check it for the transparent manufacturer sticker (such as American Standard, Kohler, or Toto). Otherwise, do not use it! That toilet or urinal could be a fake.
If the toilet seat is black, don’t sit on it. You’ll never notice if the person before you covered it in oil or shoe polish to try to pull a prank on you.
Thoroughly check the restroom for explosive devices. It would be pathetic being blown up with your pants down.
Stay away from the mirror. Do not look in the mirror. Chances are it may not be you.
Do not unzip your pants until you’re at the urinal. You don’t need to expose your dinker to other restroom users.
Before entering a toilet stall, note the size of the gap between the stall door and the frame. If the gap is wider than half an inch, do not enter the stall. Anyone can peek through that gap and get an eyeful.
If someone walks in while you’re in a toilet stall, don’t panic. Sit still and shut up! Hold your breath until the person leaves. This will save you from their toxic fumes, and it it will also hide your paranoia.
Do not use sinks or urinals which have proximity sensors. Those are obvious bomb triggers waiting to go off.
After using restroom facilities, always wash your hands – even while wearing the protective gloves.
UPON EXITING
Carry a clipboard and paper to write a personal review of the restroom. Write details about your experience that may help you on your next visit. Number every restroom you enter and keep it documented at home. Most importantly, summarize your notes with an official “Safe/Not Safe” rating.
Tell bystanders about your experience with that particular restroom. Warn them of any safety hazards they may expect. It would be pathetic for anyone to die doing their doody.
If at all necessary, produce a monthly restroom newsletter for your community.
You can find many more “safety” jokes on this funny website
I wonder if you guys actually think how the CM becomes the way they do? I mean, could it be because they have an arsehole boss that loads them up with an unrealistic workload and expectations? Could it be that every 2nd douchebag calls, complaining that they weren’t reimbursed 5 freaking dollars for god sakes? Could it be that they are harassed hourly for overdue tasks, accounts, contacts, this, that or the other? Could it be they are abused by the psychotic minority of the injured worker population for the most frivolous reason? Could it be that instead of being thanked, for anything, they are treated like dirt? Could it be that the times that they go above and beyond and actually care for a worker, like a suicidal one, no support, no thanks. Could it be that they are blamed for everything, justified or not?
Or could it be they are so bloody worn out by the constant bullying from their own company, let alone from the ones that claim they have a mental injury from the very same reason?
Welcome to my world. I’m a CM, and I still have a heart. Have some respect. If you really have an issue, deal with it rationally, otherwise contact work safe, or the manager.
I struggle to believe that society as a whole really cares about injured workers. If you are a CM with a heart it would be hard for you to juggle all the crap thrown at you.
What we need is to support each other and unite not fight. Find other CM’s that have hearts and start from your side pushing the reality of insurance companies and the injured. Together we may have a better chance of being heard and the system being changed.
Everything appears to work through intimidation. The injured worker they try to starve out thinking that will snap a worker back to full health and fix all our problems. CM’s possibly are under a similar threat with job lose and no income.
The system works because we are divided. Yet we are possibly all bullied by the system. Let us expose the bullying. Not blame each other for making it harder for each other.
Just my thoughts.
Peter, I think your idea is really spot on! May CMs “with a heart” blow the whistle and help us all make a difference!
You sooty lala if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
LOL. Why not work together? Seems as though we as injured workers are the ones that suffer the most.We are the ones that have something to gain.
I thought we wanted to stop the bullying from Insurance Companies and thier Case Managers.
It is not a matter of not being able to stand the heat. I have been bullied because I stood up for what is right.That is the attitude bullies use!!!
Hey Anys
Good on you for posting. It is no secret that several bullying claims have been lodged by WorkSafe’s own employees, nor would it be any surprise that bullying would be prevalent in their agents’ organisations. It occurs wherever poor management practices are in place.
You must understand that it would be difficult for anyone in the system to have sympathy for you, when your post addresses people who are injured and struggling to survive emotionally and financially, when at no fault of their own, they can no longer work but are constantly being BULLIED by agents to RTW despite their incapacity, just because their injury interferes with the insurer’s financial goals. Surely you see the futility of asking for respect, when none is given. Respect begets respect after all. “do unto others…” Your post is not very respectful – you could have started there!
My last CM tried to bully a psychiatrist to withdraw his medical opinion because it conflicted with the teams financial goals. Tell me Anys – does that CM deserve respect or would you say that person was part of the “psychotic minority” of worksafe agent employees?
If you are being bullied by your managers to bully injured workers, lodge a claim. Putting up with bullying just perpetuates the problem. That is, bullying poor injured workers just because you are being bullied by your manager will not help anyone. But you know, since you work in the system, that if you lodge a claim you’ll be treated with no respect, just a case number and get worse, unlike those poor injured workers who lodged claims unaware that “the system” is flawed and adversarial and compounds injuries. If you don’t want to lodge a claim then get out, reclaim your soul before you lose your humanity (i.e. “how the CM becomes they way they do) and before you sustain a psychiatric injury. No job is worth fighting a bully boss. So Anys resign asap, but spread the word first and take the other CMs with you. Start a website called “a workercover agents victims diary” to help satan’s other former minions.
PS. the “douchebag” who calls for reimbursement of $5 dollars is really just someone who is ensuring that they are respected of their rights. $5 is a lot when you average it over all the reimbursements that remain unpaid or delayed. It can add up to thousands for the insurer. Yet it is a loaf of bread to the desperate, not “douchebag” injured workers who may have no income. And you talk of respect? If you still have a heart as you claim, make sure it is still beating.
Glad to hear you still have a heart, so do I… where is my respect?
Hey Anus. Sounds to me like you should be approving your abusive injured workers reimbursements and their much needed medical treatment. That way you wouldnt have to suffer by having to listen to your, suicidal clients.
FFS. Doesnt that speak for itself? And you seriously want us to feel sorry for, you?
The minute a case manager opens their mouth
I lose interest
Ignore this twit
Jeff
In ten years within the Workover as an injured worker, I had a dozen or more Case Managers. Only one of those was an honest, compassionate human being. Doesn’t seem to me that the psychopathic ones are the minority.