this type of kid drives me fucking crazy, especially when i end up doing extra work because the dumb shit is always sick causing their parent to miss work

why can't these weak crybabies man the fuck up and get well

fuck

3/7/2011 6:17:20 PM

Or just let them die. Survival of the fittest, bitch.

3/7/2011 6:18:30 PM

or how about the woman stays home and raises her kids

3/7/2011 6:19:02 PM

kids are always sick, shitty immune system or not

3/7/2011 6:20:16 PM

double edged sword

It's bad when the parents get sick, and miss work
It's bad when the parents get sick, and come into work getting everyone else sick.

3/7/2011 6:23:26 PM

Half the people at work are out sick today because some faggot didn't go home when he should have

3/7/2011 6:28:26 PM

Kids.

3/7/2011 6:29:21 PM

aha, yep

man, when I get sick, I stay my ass at home and work from my couch.

3/7/2011 6:29:25 PM

Some parents use the sick kid excuse to go ahead and just get a free day off work

3/7/2011 6:33:22 PM

i feel very blessed with my immune system, i literally haven't been sick in over 15 years, not even a headache. maybe it has something to do with the fact i've never taken any kind of medicine, so my body hasn't ever been dependent on anything.

3/7/2011 9:07:51 PM

how about parents who send their kids to school sick despite having been sent home with a fever the past several days in a row. thanks for thinking of your child's health and the health of everyone around them

3/7/2011 9:17:17 PM

One of my coworkers has not made a full week since I started 3 months ago. Apparently talking to some of my other coworkers, he hasn't made a full week in the last 3-4 years. Nice guy, but shit is always happening to him, whether he's sick, sick kids, kids in trouble, ex-wife is being a cunt, etc.

3/7/2011 9:28:19 PM

^ that's exactly the type of coworker I'm dealing with right now

every god damn week it's something

3/7/2011 11:48:42 PM

I go to work no matter how sick I am. Screw not getting paid. I could be coughing up and lung and still go to work.

3/7/2011 11:56:34 PM

There is no "i" in team........

3/8/2011 12:02:34 AM

but there is a "me."

I work at a doctors' office, so at least one co-worker is always sick. Our boss "encourages" us not to call out unless we're dying.

3/8/2011 12:36:41 AM

Walkman, he was sick again today. Apparently he has the "flu". I would assume he won't be in tomorrow either. Hard to believe he's made it 10 years here pulling shit like this.

3/8/2011 3:42:15 PM

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"Some parents use the sick kid excuse to go ahead and just get a free day off work "

I won't lie, if I had kids and could get a paid day off to stay with them, I wouldn't mind it one bit (except for the whole kid being sick part).

3/8/2011 3:50:16 PM

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"i feel very blessed with my immune system, i literally haven't been sick in over 15 years, not even a headache. maybe it has something to do with the fact i've never taken any kind of medicine, so my body hasn't ever been dependent on anything."

are you fucking kidding me? That is some of the stupidest logic I've ever seen. You're one of those goddamn chucklefucks who probably believes that immunizing kids gives them down syndrome, and you're going to go and not immunize them and then they'll get measles and die.

3/8/2011 3:52:18 PM

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"maybe it has something to do with the fact i've never taken any kind of medicine"

I don't believe this for a second unless you're a Christian Scientist or something.

3/8/2011 3:54:37 PM

Easy there, Bobby. Remember, some of us didn't grow up having to iodize tap water just to make sure we don't die from cholera, diarrhoea, paratyphoid fever, bacillary dysentery, hepatitis, poliomyelitis, and/or botulism.

3/8/2011 3:57:26 PM

A drink of ganges water every day, keeps the doctor away


because you die before he shows up

3/8/2011 3:59:01 PM

Hey Bob, how about you not instantly jump into asshole mode and assume tons of shit you don't know about. I didn't come in here looking for an argument guys, geez.

For the record, I had cancer when I was much younger (before the age of 5), so yes, I have of course used medicine to some degree. What I was trying to point out is that for the last 20 years or so I have gone out of my way to avoid it because I get sick of people being wussies and acting like they have to take medicine for every little thing. Some of the sickest people I know are the ones who take ten pills a day trying to prevent sickness or feel like they have to take out multiple aspirins for the smallest headache. I don't want to get to the point where my body can't fight off viruses on its own. It's not some stupid christian-scientist logic. I grew up poor as shit, and i'm glad my parents didn't pump us full of medications.



[Edited on March 8, 2011 at 4:39 PM. Reason : .]

3/8/2011 4:38:00 PM

What does your family being poor have to do with anything?

3/8/2011 4:45:11 PM

Street cred.

You think Eminem would've blown up if he came from money?

3/8/2011 4:58:55 PM

I think the point is that poor people can't afford to freak out and overmedicate over every little thing.

3/8/2011 5:42:38 PM

^correct.

obviously when I have kids i'm going to give them medicine when they're sick, but once they're old enough to have more common sense, I don't want them running to a medicine cabinet every time they have the sniffles. If people just stay active and avoid eating like shit all the time, that would help a tremendous amount.

3/8/2011 5:52:26 PM

3/8/2011 6:55:10 PM

The family that drinks together...

3/8/2011 8:10:51 PM

or how about the woman stays home and raises her kids

3/8/2011 9:58:51 PM

^ turns into a lazy pool boy screwing slut who does not realize the value of earning her keep

that type of mentality must come from the far eastern part of the state where men are still evolving from cavemen

3/8/2011 10:04:12 PM

my father never missed a day of work
because he had a wife to take care of shit like this
i can only imagine the type of looks he would have gotten at his firm if he told people he needed the day off to take care of his children

3/8/2011 10:44:10 PM

It's cause parents and perscription happy doctors pump kids full of antibiotics before kids immune systems can even get a chance to build up.

3/8/2011 10:45:56 PM

Yes, that's the only reason kids get sick

3/8/2011 11:24:32 PM

it's a big reason

douchebag parents banging on the counter demanding antibiotics for even the slightest little bug

stunting immune system development and ruining the effectiveness of antibiotics for the population at large

FUCK DOUCHEBAG PARENTS

3/9/2011 7:35:44 AM

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"Walkman, he was sick again today. Apparently he has the "flu". I would assume he won't be in tomorrow either. Hard to believe he's made it 10 years here pulling shit like this."

Do you/him work for the state?
I've fired at least two people for shit like that

3/9/2011 7:39:54 AM

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"man, when I get sick, I stay my ass at home and work from my couch."

maaaan, I don't ever see myself having a job where I could do that

3/9/2011 7:45:59 AM

after i finish the work that absolutely HAS to be done in the office, i may be working the rest of the day from the couch...


i can pretty much do most of my job from home

3/9/2011 8:43:33 AM

What are you people roofers or something? Work form home for christ sakes.

3/9/2011 9:36:11 AM

both my wife and i work. she is hourly so if she misses work she doesn't get paid. i'm salary and can work from home so if chandler gets sick i'm usually the one stuck at home. i don't mind it though. i actually get more work done at home.

3/9/2011 9:52:49 AM

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"Yes, that's the only reason kids get sick "

Not saying that's the only reason. I am saying though when parents take their kids to the doctor for every sniffle or cough they have and then the doctor prescribes an antibiotic just to make the parents happy it ruins their immune system and the kids end up sick all the time for the rest of their life.

3/9/2011 9:59:42 AM

^ can you reference some peer reviewed studies that support that claim?

3/9/2011 10:12:25 AM

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2222.2000.00939.x/abstract

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"The use of antibiotics during the first year of life was significantly associated with asthma hay fever and eczema "

That is the first thing that popped up

3/9/2011 10:22:59 AM

So really if you want someone to blame, it's the doctors for giving out antibiotics when they're unnecessary.

3/9/2011 10:34:01 AM

^^I think you forgot to quote the next sentence.

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"After stratification for the presence of parental hay fever, children without parental hay fever did not show any significant associations between antibiotics use and asthma or allergy, whereas in children with parental hay fever the use of antibiotics was significantly related with asthma (OR = 2.3, 95% CI 1.1–5.1), hay fever (OR = 2.8, 95% CI 1.5–5.1) and eczema (OR = 1.6, 95% CI 1.0–2.6), and of borderline statistical significance with skin test positivity (OR = 1.6, 95% CI 0.9–3.0)."

[Edited on March 9, 2011 at 10:35 AM. Reason : .]

3/9/2011 10:34:36 AM

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"What are you people roofers or something? Work form home for christ sakes."

I've worked in labs, and now work at a vet clinic (with ambitions for vet school)- working from home is simply not an option (unless, like some vets, I have a house above/next to my practice)

3/9/2011 10:35:58 AM

personally, i'm more concerned with drug-resistant bacteria than kids with hay fever

3/9/2011 10:36:32 AM

^ ding ding ding, that's the real issue.

3/9/2011 10:37:06 AM

Guy out again today. Relevant to this thread, both his kids have caught it now. I forsee he is gone the rest of the week.

Quote :

"Do you/him work for the state? "

3/9/2011 10:55:10 AM

^^ Word. I also wish they'd stop putting triclosan in everything they can think of. Even the company that makes that antibacterial compound admits it's a bad idea to be putting it into plastics and shit.

3/9/2011 10:56:42 AM