Six periods of sickness huh...? Well, that's easy then. I suggest we all agree to make the company happy......and instead of going sick six times.....let's all go sick ONCE.....for about a month! Something like this is needed to demonstrate to all of us just how malignant this management has become. Instead of addressing the issues that are resulting in increased sick rates (fatigue, frustration, low morale, indimidation, hopelessness), they would rather attempt to bludgeon us into submission. Funny how this management seems to be totally ignorant of history, both social and corporate. History shows unequivocally, that regimes that attempt to obtain compliance through threats and intimidation are doomed to fail. There is not A SINGLE EXAMPLE OF A REGIME or CORPORATION that has survived and PROSPERED through heavy-handedness. Not a single example. KB, NR, DT, you think that these silly and pathetic attempts to put us 'under the thumb' will solve your problems.....? Well, I can assure you that it will in fact result in even greater problems for you. You and your cronies are becoming a sick joke.....and if you have to resort to such sad attempts at coersion as this......you are certifably morally bankrupt. It is feeble attempts such as this that reinforce the knowledge that this regime is crumbling....and this will surely help push the lot of you off the edge. I can promise you this. I will go sick each and every time I am unfit. Your pathetic 'number counting' can be shoved right up your smelly ar-ses. It is now time to act.