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[Fuzz]

The world is a cruel, ####ty place, kid. Best get used to it.

[81MC]

I know most parents don’t have much of a choice, but #### is it aggravating when kids get dropped off at daycare when their parents know they’re not feeling well. Figure that #### out, the answer is not potentially making others sick.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by 81MC

I know most parents don’t have much of a choice, but #### is it aggravating when kids get dropped off at daycare when their parents know they’re not feeling well. Figure that #### out, the answer is not potentially making others sick.

It’s ####ing wild. People are so selfish. Not to mention, and apparently this is weird, but I have this urge to actually nurture my kid when they are actively sick…

[Swift]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Great opportunity for your son to learn things don’t always go his way.

Says 50 year old man who wishes it was hotter every day.

[Sliver]

Sherlock Wormius and the Case of the Costco Smiley Face.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Swift

Says 50 year old man who wishes it was hotter every day.

and yet I struggle on.....

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

It’s ####ing wild. People are so selfish. Not to mention, and apparently this is weird, but I have this urge to actually nurture my kid when they are actively sick…

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.

[Looch City]

I take 30min ####s on company time instead of going to the gym. Same level of workout either way!

[Icantwhisper]

Originally Posted by Looch City

I take 30min ####s on company time instead of going to the gym. Same level of workout either way!

chew your food better

[Barnet Flame]

Is that a management request?

[GGG]

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.

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.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Sherlock Wormius and the Case of the Costco Smiley Face.

A worthy quest, at last.

[Old Yeller]

I recognize the lack of options some parents have when it comes to sickness and daycare... I still hate them for it but I recognize it.

In other news my son has been in daycare for 8 months now and I'm pretty sure if a biological war happened, I'd now survive it.

[iggy_oi]

In Alberta employers are required to allow up to 5 days of(unpaid) leave each year for family responsibilities. (ie: kids being sick)

https://www.alberta.ca/personal-fami...sibility-leave

[Nandric]

5 days! I have a 4 and a 2 year old in preschool/daycare. That would have been used in the first month easy...

[GGG]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

In Alberta employers are required to allow up to 5 days of(unpaid) leave each year for family responsibilities. (ie: kids being sick)

https://www.alberta.ca/personal-fami...sibility-leave

The unpaid makes that policy essentially worthless in many scenarios. Better than nothing is how I would describe it.

[Hot_Flatus]

Originally Posted by GGG

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.

The real issue is not a societal construct it's that many people are just increasingly more selfish and self absorbed than they have ever been. A lot of people simply don't care that sending a sick kid to school or daycare is going to infect several others and likely take down the teacher if the alternative is disrupting their own routine. The same parents that cant be bothered to look up from their phones at their kids sports practice/game or get off the couch or out of the house all weekend are usually the same ones that just can't find a way to work from home or shuffle things around.

In today's world, unless you're a shift worker or in a very niche line of work without family to support, there is little reason that you can't make arrangements to keep a sick kid home and/or work remotely with a sick kid once and a while. Most can certainly balance it out with a spouse and grandparents if it is a more common or recurring issue. If your employer isn't flexible on this in 2024 you need to find a new employer.

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

If your employer isn't flexible on this in 2024 you need to find a new employer.

Lol we've got someone on here claiming time theft for going to gym before the officially mandated, timed, clocked, and super strict lunch break. The horror!!

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by GGG

The unpaid makes that policy essentially worthless in many scenarios. Better than nothing is how I would describe it.

This legislation was only introduced about 6 years ago so we literally had nothing before.

[fotze2]

It does suck and there should absolutely be WAYYY more flexibility on sick kids. It's ridiculous.

Absolutely spread the pain, I'm all for it.

Wife says "Keegan is sick again, puked, looks green, Mayghun sounds like she has whooping cough"

What does Keegans dad do - I dunno he picks him up in Carrharts.

What about Mayghun - I heard her dad is a VP at Whitepack or Capwhite. Mom does Scentsy.

I'll take a bullet for Keegan, Mayghun can go fata herself.