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Originally Posted by fotze2
Its not wild, it happens all the time, schools too. My wife is a teacher aide, she pretty much just deals with sick kids all day smokers coughing in her face.
99% of the time, the kid is dropped off for before and after school care by a mom with a yoga pad under their arm.
Also what is with those couples where dad needs to come in late and leave at 3 every day to pick up his only child at daycare, yet the wife doesn't work and they live 3 blocks from the daycare. Ooooh maybe has MS or something? Nope, according to instagram, she definitely does not.
Also, when did going to the gym during the workday become accepted that it is on company time?
Thats the lunch break. Whats the problem? No. There is also a lunch break. Sorry, going to the gym then I have lunch at Local.
I've seen this so many times. Its bizarre.
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So I’m going to say we should be tolerant of this.
Do you think people want to send their kids to school or daycare sick?
Or is it more likely we have constructed a society without communal safety nets and expectations of two income families and price housing such that it requires to incomes to own? Then we have created expectations that a child being sick isn’t a reason to miss work and isn’t covered in many benefits. Then in Covid the professional class got all these WFH benefits so it’s no big deal for them so now we can look down at the plebs who don’t have other options.
Sending kids to school sick in our current society should be the expectation given the society we have constructed. The individuals doing it aren’t selfish they lack the option.