Teacher On Sick Leave For 16 Years Sues Employer

On sick leave for 16 years while getting PAID, and now you want to sue your employer!!! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
The Crazy Train is headed out to Germany where a
teacher was on paid sick leave for sixteen years. Sixteen years,
this teacher was collecting salary benefits over a million dollars.
She would turn in medical certificates whenever the school would ask,

(00:28):
but they never required a formal health check until new
leadership came to the school district and they were like,
wait a minute, has anyone ever asked her to go
see an actual doctor? So they asked her, after sixteen
years of sick leave, ma'am, can you please go get
an actual medical exam instead of just turning in letters?

(00:52):
And she was like, you know what, I'm taking you
to court.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Ah h.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
She saw at this school for asking her to prove
that she was sick after she'd been collected sixteen years
worth the paycheck. You better stop it right now. She
tried it, but luckily, because you always hear about these
frivolous lawsuits, uh, the court was like girl, by you
know no, so they actually charged her for the legal fees.

(01:19):
I was gonna say, Christy, they should have made her
pay a lot of that money back. They can't make
her pay the money back because they can't prove that
she wasn't sick. But now she's you know, looking at
losing her pension and all of that. That's crazy writing
sick notes on all like post it notes, I'm sick
sixteen years, sixteen years, and then have the audacity to
see the school district for asking her to prove it.

(01:40):
Stop it.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
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