Ag nee .. sies Doktor!

Today I listened on the radio to a piece about the loss of productive hours being experienced in this country due to employees presenting fake doctor's notes and how they use various and devious means to getting the "day off".  The statistics are incredible.  Now unbelievably, doctors are suggesting that they will put vending machines into their rooms, where one can insert your medical card and pay to receive a sick note by choosing a particular ailment, from a list of options.  The doctor felt that this was not only justified, but in the public interest, because this will give more time to the doctors to spend on genuine patients, instead of having their rooms cluttered with people, who are not really ill.  He also mentioned that medical aids will be in favour, as they will then no longer have to expend huge funds, in conducting tests on patients that have no condition, he felt even employees will benefit because they would skip work anyway, so now they can use a "legitimate" means of getting the sick note instead of having to resort to fraud and deception.  This is a truly sad indictment of our country and the moral degradation, that we can even contemplate such behaviour. First and foremost, it is despicable that in a country which is struggling in its economy daily, due to lack of service delivery, major crime and corruption, huge unemployment and risk of chaos, due to maladministration, but yet the people still choose to rob the employers of even their time, so that all in all, more and more pressure can be brought to bear, on a small minority of people, who are willing to work and sacrifice.  These people have to carry a country of dishonest scoundrels and that includes people in high places, so that our country can continue to stumble along in its path, being ruined by a miserable and pathetic majority of oxygen thieves. We have shining lights, like Trevor Noah, who has just been appointed as the host of a top late night show in America, entrepreneurs like the guy looking to combat the dodgy sick notes with an online web based application, to check the official status of the notes and other super performers like AB de Villiers, who truly hoist the flag of the nation.  But why is it that the work is left to couple of dedicated people, while the others float around, or do down right nothing, but still expect to be paid and given what they want, not even what they need and the dedicated hard workers, just have to keep producing.  I am all for the freedom that this country offers, but it is about time to take stock and that traditional hard work is rewarded and that the rot is stopped, before the lights go out (literally and figuratively) on the amazing place, we call home.