People with allergies don’t just one day think up that they are allergic to things like peanuts because they are bored or whiney; allergies are real and very serious. If you don’t have allergies, good for you. You should be thankful and considerate of people that unlike you have to constantly worry about not only what they eat but what people around them are eating AT ALL TIMES. I constantly have to be looking out for strangers eating peanuts or peanut butter in public places like at the movies or next to me on the bus. I shouldn’t have to still be on the lookout within my own workplace. To eat peanut butter in a small office in which you know a coworker is allergic (because they have told you numerous times) is a really fucked up thing to do on a human level. You’re feel snacky? You poor thing. I’m now at the hospital for the day and spending the weekend blotchy and sick. I hope you read this as I know you’re not actually working for half of the work day. Prick. —Itchy and Vomiting
This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2015.
Bullshit. This happens all the time. Like a child who throws temper tantrums in the mall, you “developed an allergic reaction” or “sensitivity “; this brings you the attention you crave.
As a parent to a child with a peanut allergy, it’s my responsibility to make sure my kid knows better than to eat food that I haven’t prepared, or touch food that I haven’t prepared. He also carries wipes with his so he can wipe down tables and chairs before sitting in the event that someone seated there before had peanut butter. He’s 8. Sorry, OB, but you’re a grown up and you need to take responsibility for your own health. My son is still young, but if he’s sitting next to someone who has peanut butter he’ll either move or say “excuse me, I have a peanut allergy. Would you please wait until I can move to eat that?” Works every time.
I’m sure the severity of your child’s allergy is exactly the same as the OB’s Cate. Since this site is all about attacking other posters I might as well jump on the band wagon. Pull you fucking head out of your own life’s ass and consider that maybe people’s lives aren’t identical to yours, Cate. It doesn’t sound like the OB can even sit next to someone with peanuts to have the opportunity to ask them to put it away.
To the OB, I’d elevate this issue within your workplace. If your allergy is that severe that you can’t even be in the same room as someone with peanut butter then people should be made aware of that and held accountable when they ignore the peanut free rule.
“We live in a society here!”
– George Costanza
If you would stop eating their food, perhaps there wouldn’t be cross contamination.
& FYI , I have a food allergy that has put me in anaphalactic shock. It was my mistake at work
Not my co workers mistake ….. So suck it up & carry yer eppi pen
Learn to use you own utensils, being your own food with you each day & unless you can lock up your food, leave nothing in the common area.
The world doesn’t revolve around you & if we have to adress every fucking allergy there is all the time everywhere…. We will have to leave the planet & I’m positive there will be those alergic to that.
The gene pool is being weakened by people with food allergies, so let’s make peanutbutter sandwichs manditory in school . Make sure milk is served to everyone & shellfish is manditory at least once a week
Oh & along with that, take the do not eat warning label off paint cans
Take a Step Back, he gets hives from sitting next to someone with peanuts. I understand there are different severities, however if an eight-year-old can figure it out, an adult should surely be able to.
I think he refers to hypersensitivity caused by hypochondria…
So what is your opinion of the person who keeps bringing in peanut products, knowing that they could harm the OP? No one raking OP over the coals seems to have an issue with that, which is strange to me. To me that is a seriously callous and fucked up thing to do when you work in a small office. The person who is doing it is a SET, plain and simple. Could the OP do more to protect themselves in the workplace from this issue? Maybe, but who knows.
And Cate, yeah, your kid is only 8, lots of life left to live in which this could happen to him. Hopefully it never ever will, but if it does, I hope you remember how self righteous you sounded on this bitch.
Thanks for that, Styles. He’s been hospitalized twice. It’s a learning experience for sure. We expect him to live in the real world, and not a bubble we create for him.
Sorry to hear that. My own children have allergies as well, but to nothing as common as peanuts. So what you are saying is that you would be fine with a classmate bringing a PB&J to school everyday? That YOUR child would never have any reaction in this scenario? Because schools have rules to prevent that. Workplaces do not. Do you see where I am going with this? Do you not see that basically calling the OP a child (actually, worse than a child) was…foolish?
Actually, Styles, what I said was that if a child can learn to function with a severe. life-threatening allergy, surely an adult can too. I’m not a bubble wrap, helicopter parent; I never will be. He needs to learn that HE is solely responsible for his own health because the harsh reality is that once we set him out into the great big world, no one else is going to care or watch out for him.
Okay everybody – STOP. We have just been told the world revolves around the OB. We must do everything they say. Sorry I like my peanut butter and will continue to eat it. What is it with people telling us what to eat, wear, drink, etc. Just kindly fuck off, the world DOES NOT revolve around you.
Holy shit. What does that have to do with complaining about someone who is continually excacerbating the situation? So being careful and not wanting SETs to be SETs are mutually exclusive? This isn’t about how you parent? Is this Crayons?
You can’t avoid peanuts…they are everywhere. Maybe this cheap food should just be banned.
Can you imagine a world in which everything anyone dislikes, finds insulting or annoying, offensive, something to which they are allergic, etc is banned? Fuck! we can’t get along now – imagine a world without beer or pot or coffee or sex or red meat or Brother’s pepperoni… that’s a bombin’!
Fuck all your whiney, allergy pussies and your weak-ass, defective bodies. What? You gonna be your bodies bitch all your life? Fuck that, go home and make yourself a big old PB&J and enjoy!!!
Charlie Brown: “Can you imagine a world in which everything anyone dislikes, finds insulting or annoying, offensive, something to which they are allergic, etc is banned? Fuck! we can’t get along now – imagine a world without beer or pot or coffee or sex or red meat or Brother’s pepperoni… that’s a bombin’!”
That’s the way the world is going CB. We need to be considerate of every “special” person. Tut, tut now and be a good sheeple. 😉
I hope the ban peanut butter on metro transit buses; within 16 feet of entrances to public buildings…
We can’t risk making someone sick. Sorry, but this is just too fucked up.
There really is only one solution … Soylent Green.
No. There are people that are allergic to people…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O5h4enjrH…
i cant believe some of your attitudes have a bit of compasion for a fellow human being you dicks
All of the people going on about how its not a real allergy, Hmm go tell my Aunts husband that, His sister died from eating a brownie that turned out to have peanuts in it, she went in to anaphylactic shock and died just like that. This is a SMALL office! OP is referring to! Besides who would want to be allergic to PEANUTS! they taste amazing, I had the hives and fever allergy when I was a kid but grew out of it… Think before you blurt off your catholic guilt complex anti medication, anti psychology bullshit….
To all those ragging on the OB here:
You dummies DO realize this issue is a matter of the provincial occupational health and safety act, right?
This co worker is violating the act, which means OB can go to her boss and report it. If they fail to act, she/he can take to the department of labour and advanced education and file a report. After an investigation, if the employer is deemed to have failed to act and the workplace hazard has continued to be unaddressed, thus causing injury or illness to the employee (in this case the OB), they can be levied with fines or even jail time (the supervisor) under the administrative penalties act.
This isn’t a case of someone simply eating peanut butter in a public place and everyone simply having to accommodate a SET who is being a cry baby about an ‘allergy,’ this is someone with a REAL potentially life threatening condition having to work in a work environment that violates their right to safety, and an asshole who knows full well their behaviour is harming others, and is violating provincial labour safety laws.
And really – you have to be a special kind of asshole to know someone has a peanut allergy, yet not give a shit. Is not having your peanut butter at work REALLY that much of a hardship? Jesus, it’s not like you can’t cram one down your pie holes when you get home if it’s really that important to you.
The provincial occupational health and safety act was probably written by a bunch of wankers with peanut allergies. Maybe you sensitivity/allergy assclowns should pool your money together and buy an island where you can live out your lives in bubble wrapped, whiney pussydom.
But Grouch …I too have a serious medical condition/allergy , I need to eat peanut butter or peanuts ever 4 to 6 hours or i could go into anaphylactic shock & die .
SO hopefully when the Provincial Safety Officer comes to investigate . Their fucking head explodes , while they attempt to figure out what to do.
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So sarcasm is banned also? Good to know.
How does your sarcasm get removed but my obviously ridiculous post still stands? None of the shit going on here makes any sense!!!
Meh. Lately all I can do with this site is try to find the humour in the fact that a group of adults are in an actual war with an online moderator.