Oh, boo hoo. The HR department finally told you that you need to start using vacation days whenever your kid is “sick”. It’s only mid-march and already you’ve used 11 days claiming “My kid is sick with a cold” or “It’s a snow day, I need to stay home with my kid.” What bullshit. Your kid is 14, plays hockey, and is as healthy as a horse. My sister sees your kid out playing street hockey on those “kid is sick” days. You come into the office bitching it’s discrimination and harassment. No one has any sympathy for you. You’re full of more shit than a treatment plant. —An Apple A Day Keeps You Away
This article appears in Mar 17-23, 2011.
Ugh. I hate how people take advantage of sick days. Even though I don’t have anything really worth getting bent out of shape about at work (nothing that can’t wait until tomorrow!) I still felt/feel super guilty calling in sick for the second day in a row.
Good on your HR dept, OP, for making her use up her vacation days. Most people don’t have the luxury of having sick days to take when their kids are sick (esp those in min wage or part time/contract jobs) and have to lose a day’s pay. I know I’d sure like to have vacation days to take for these two days! Then my paycheque might not actually suck this week!!!
If you’re really sick and depending on your salary, you don’t mind taking those vacation days. This bitch just sounds lazy!
This bitch is probably about Survivor ;D
Must be a Hockey Mom holding out the pipe dream that her kid is going to be the next big one. LOL. Keep dreaming lady. In the meantime, hope you lose all your sick days and vacation days.
If the kid in this story is 14, then he’s old enough to stay home alone whether he has the sniffles or not.
Cut the cord already lady.
I agree NM – I was home alone at 12.
At first I was thinking through my perspective of how shitty it is when you have to take sick days for both you and your kid. I was going to write a blurb about perhaps being a bit more understanding, than I saw that the kid was 14..wtf?
Substitute ‘expelled’ for ‘sick’, and it makes more sense.
but o.p., do i detect maybe just a bit of jealousy on your part? maybe at the time, this kid was not feling good. or maybe she is fucking off. but you lose nothing, she loses a vacation time. feel good in the knowledge, that when you get your 2 or 3 weeks off, she will stil have to work. take satifaction in that area.
LOL calling her liver her kid…
I have alot of sick time. I rarely use it.
An apple a day keeps ANYONE away when it’s thrown hard enough :p
Well, another pointless irrelevant post by Bon. *eyeroll*
It does suck when you have to take time off when your kids are sick as well as when you’re sick, but I think the fact that they’re making her take the vacation time shows on their part that they’re attempting to make sure she still gets paid. She probably had 10 sick days, which is fairly standard and it’s not like orgs should be responsible to pay people beyond a reasonable amount of sick time. Before my dad retired, he had NO sick time. He worked in a unionized organization where 3 weeks vacation were provided every year at a certain time (late july-early august — perfect vacation time) and another week, I believe, and they always got two weeks at Christmas (all paid, I might add). ANYWAY, when they were sick they weren’t allowed to use their vacation time because you had to give notice to use those as per their collective agreement. So if you were sick, you just didn’t get paid. And given my dad’s salary… that was A LOT of coin to miss out on.
And I missed that part about the kid being 14! I was coming home by myself when I was 11 after school (latch key kid ftw) and I remember having the worst stomach virus when I was 12 and was basically bedridden (couch ridden, actually) for a week, and my mom left me home, but would come back on her lunch hour to check up on me and I was just fine (I slept all day anyway!) When I was 14 and smashed my ankle and couldn’t walk and my mom left me home all by myself then too and I was just fine. I hobbled around the house on my crutches. When I was younger, my mom was always there or I would stay at my babysitters’ (we were lucky enough to find someone willing to keep me at her place during the day when I was sick). I can see if your kid’s younger, but at 14… yano. Esp if the kid’s out playing hockey. When I was sick and when I’m sick today I don’t feel like doing anything but sleeping, whining, laying on the couch in my sick jammies with my sick blanket feeling sorry for myself (because I’m a sook, heh). I certainly don’t feel like hauling my ass out to go work out.
PS: sorry for the long post, guys 🙁
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What the fuck is a sick day? And if you have them it’s for you being sick, no one else. For a lot of people no workie, no payie. Then there’s those that fucking abuse everything they get. But then I guess they’re entitled to their entitlements.
Once again… everyday… somebody bitchin about what somebody else is doin… mind your own business nut job… in fact… why dont you just take Friday off… my kid needs a sitter… ya up for it?????
pk go take a flying fuck you useless piece of garbage.
Oooh ooooh, here we go, another token “PK is a k-unt” post by hello.
You realize that, the very fact that you generally only come on here to insult me (and seemingly stalk me), flatters me more than anything, right?
Keep up the good work!
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Hmm… only comes on here to post insults directed at me… yup, sounds like stalking to me! 😀
PK YOU COME ON HERE AND INSULT EVERY COMMENT I MAKE. YOU ARE A SICK PERSON AND YOU NEED HELP. LEAVE ME AND MY 2 FRIENDS ON HERE ALONE!!!!
Oh baby Jay
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I agree with this on principle because I hate how “good organizations” – those with benefits, vacation days, etc – drastically favour families over single people. If you have a kid and you work for the government you get extra off-days for taking your kids to appointments and that sort of thing, which can add up pretty quickly. Meanwhile, single folks stay at work and carry the extra load.
To me the OP seems like they’re sick of hearing them bitch about this. I mean I would get sick of hearing about it too. The kids 14 he doesn’t need you to stay home sick with him. And she’s obviously lying about her kid being sick if he’s out playing hockey. This would piss me off too. Keep it in the HR person’s office.
I would love to work for a company that is family friendly and allows sick days for your children. I have to come to work when I’m sick because I don’t want work to get mad because I have no choice to take sick days when my little guy is. Being a parent of little ones isn’t easy.
I merely point out that your comments, Bon, are pointless. You make irrelevant comments that are a waste of time to read. If you consider that an insult then so be it.
Then again, my posts aren’t the ones getting deleted, but it sure seems as though your stalker-friend, hello’s sure are 😉
So if you and your little gang of k-unts can’t handle it, Bon, stay the fuck off the internet. 😀
Which could be pointed out about anyone’s posts .
Like everything you post Kitty is gold !
I know most of my shit won’t have a fan out there, why care ?
I know I don’t.
I’m almost positive L.S. doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks of what he posts
People have differing opinions, running off crying to the mod of the site, because your feelings are hurt. That’s about as mature as the name calling in the first place. Even if you think its pointless, irrelevant etc. Has it never occurred to you others may be interested ? Or at least would like to read it to form their own opinion.
It a fucking anonymous bitch/rant site people, get over yourselves !
One thing I have noticed from coming here, is that there are many opinions expressed here, that I don’t agree with the poster at all. But other subjects come along & I’m on the same side as they are about a different subject.
more, you are so fucking right, on many points dude.i don’t give a fiaglers fuck what anyone thinks, about what, or how i write. there, i said it. so suck my ginormous wang.(but not my friends, who are legion here).
I’ve never actually reported a comment, More. And anytime someone’s said something insulting/negative towards me I’ve either made fun of it or ignored it. I’ve never actually had any interaction with a mod on this site. Even when the [now deleted] comment by Bon’s friend (who claims *I’m* the sick one, lol) stating that he/she hopes I get murdered was put up there, I just ignored it (and lol’d a little). Then I came back and it was gone.
And you go on More, like you’re the only one who’s allowed an opinion around here. If I want to call out someone’s posts for being pointless and irrelevant, well that’s an opinion I’m entitled to have, as you have pointed out people are allowed to have their own opinions, while bitching that I, essentially, am not.
Like I’ve said: don’t like my posts or what I say in them, well, you can suck it. Bon and her band of merry k-unts are the ones crying about criticism “oooh boo hoo, someone dares to say something bad about my precious posts! whoa is me! I’m going to get my friends on the case! Leave us alone you big meanie! You’re obviously a sick person if you don’t fall all over me when I post one line useless posts that point out how high and mighty I am yet are usually irrelevant to the subject!”
Even you, More-on, don’t phase me, ever, when you criticize my posts — have you ever seen a post from me (in all caps) being all “OMG LEAVE ME ALONE WAHWAH!”? Have you ever seen my friends on here (and I do have irl friends here) tell you they hope you get murdered when you criticize my posts? Even when you start your name calling shit? I don’t even name call when I criticize Bon’s posts — I just simply state they’re pointless and irrelevant.
Just because Bon and her little friends all have complexes, doesn’t mean I’m going to kiss their asses or leave them alone when I think their posts are absolute garbage.
So get used to it.
THanks for the rant PK…My comment wasn’t directed at you in particular. As you’re not the only one on here.
But your brand of shit stinks as much as anyone else’s.(aka your opinion)
So try to remember that as well.
As you’ve pointed out on a different thread, its easy to tell when someone doesn’t like you.
If you have a list put me on it.
If you don’t yet…when you start one, please put me at the top of it.
Bro Tim & Canned: you cut to the chase. As in, isn’t a sick day allowed for by the employer intended to be when the *worker* is sick? Plain and simple. If it was intended that people with children have “caregiver” days off when a kid is sick, why not write that into the employment contract? Make the distinction clear. If it’s a married couple involved, and both work, coordinate with the other employer. If one parent in a marriage doesn’t work then no “caregiver” days at all.
And give the single people an annual bonus because, all other things being equal, they are more reliable and dependable than the parents that opt for “caregiver” days. No moral judgment here, just a simple recognition of reality.
My other pet peeve about folks who get favouritism: “I can’t make it in today because I live at the end of a [substitute length of sidestreet here] road 50 klicks away from downtown in Lower East Lobstertrap, and they haven’t plowed it yet”. *And* they pull this for every major snowstorm every fucking year. But the poor slobs who live close enough to work to bus and walk are *expected* to show up.
What I find odd, is there seems to be no set way ‘sick days’ are handled in the service sector. While I’ve never done the job, I have been seeing a woman who was a bartender in Halifax when we met…& no it wasn’t at a bar. SHe recently left her job there & took one that came available out here at the airport.
When she was sick in town, she pretty well needed to be a deaths door to get a sick day & management still complained ,even though she wasn’t paid for time off. if it was more than a day, she needed a doctors note…like a kid sick at school !?!
Now her new job they don’t want you there sick. She had that flu a month or so back & was very ill for 3 days & missed 5 days work, when she called to see if she was able to start her shift again , they told her see you on Sunday & when she went to work with a doc’s note, they told her that’s only required if your sick frequently.
So to those of you who work in the service sector…is there any set rules for being ill ?
Seeing as you are in close contact with customers, you’d think they would want their staff healthy.
when i worked in the business, if you called in sick it was frowned upon. we didn’t get sick days and sometimes if you were known to call in hungover, a sick note was required
Sure thing, More-on!
Now I must go cry myself to sleep 🙁
hehheh.
kitty, i’m the fuckingone that reported that comment as threatening. we don’t need any of that fucking shit here, no matter who wrote it, or who it is too. yes, i tend to get all crazy sometimes,but do not come right fucking out, and say i am gonna murder them. that’s a tad too far across the line. and bird doesn’t work week ends, as far as i know.
i am stunned suckulous, i say stunned
Bon’s posts do suck. She probably wanted to have the original screen handle of “BonBon” but expected to only have to write half of it and expected the Internet to write the rest for her.
Her posts are irrelevant. Like next there will be another bitch about smoking or air quality and Bon will write a witty and insightful comment like, “I breathe oxygen like other mammals too.”
Haha, thanks, Suckers.
Honestly though, having it up there just makes me look good in the end, and Bon and her merry band of k-unts look like… well k-unts. 😀
BTW: ya comin’ tmrw, bud?
I’d rather read Bon, than annie ;p
Moi aussi.
More-on
Oh ,no !
I’ve been insulted by some short, almost 30 year old, fat chick on the internet…(description, from your own posts) on a anonymous site for christ sakes! !
LMFAO
I am so hurt ~;’p
At least I’ve never paid to get laid. 🙂
never mind all that, how was the summit?
A hoot and a half. A certain pancakey breakfast place couldn’t accommodate our greatness so we adjourned to a place in Park Lane. We debated many issues (Sebastian, The Human Centipede, Montrealman) and I believe tipped well >; )
it was fabulous, bread girl! Great food and great company. 🙂 Hugo got a pic I think you’ll enjoy 😛
You better be at the next one, missy!!!
My tip was over 20%. haha. I knew someone would bring that bitch up! Hugo for the win — he’s the one who mentioned it first!
Absolutely fucking great summit – man, you guys are a hoot in person. Yeah, I left a $4 tip on a $10 bill but what the hell. Then I heard on the street they were stacking up expired elderly south end matrons like cordwood at a certain pancakery palace. Couldn’t you hear the ominous beeping of a reversing forklift echo through Victoria Park?
I think I have it right, please correct me where I’m wrong.
Clockwise around the table – wheeliep, Pretty Kitty, jonnoman, Orgasmatron, Life Sucks, Ivan, Ash(?), TTFN
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I think we had a much more enjoyable experience where we ended up, in the end. Wasn’t so closed in and noisy (well, until we got there :)).
And I had to fucking work. Damn employees calling in “sick”.
Brilliant, Hugo – you should be advisor to the mayor on ‘how not to be seen’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zekiZYSVdeQ
i am so proud of you guys…here’s to real face time for bitches^^
I like how by the time we were done, we were the only ones left in the place. Heh Heh Heh.
Next time Ossifer Timothy, next time. Brendon wore his Jayne Cobb hat AND a Firefly T-shirt. Hardcore fanboy. >: )
Why Hugo, I think there may have been an intruder! There is no Ash on this forum!!
😛
Man, I spent the rest of the afternoon with this sappy Alfred E. Neuman grin on my mug – the last time I did that was when I saw this magazine cover back in the 70s:
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Artist’s impression of Bitcher’s Summit 03-20-11…
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It was pretty awesome, I must say. You are all just as hilarious in person as you are online!
I’m so sad I missed it. I have a confession…. I was at the pancakey place. They were packed. It made me even more nervous, so we jetted to brunch elsewhere. But youse guys moved in the end too, so that’s cool.
I gotta get up my gumption. Oh, and painey, I had poached eggs, just not at the summit.
Loves to you all though… 😀
Thank goodness I got caught up in my son’s science fair experiment and lost track of the time. I was planning to call the pancake place at 12 and talk the server into wearing the name tag kay and work her husband named Desi into the conversation.
Hah, would have been good Kim, but the servers at the pancake place deserved a good bitch posting themselves, so I doubt they would have gone along with it. 🙂
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it to the summit. Is there, perchance, another in the works? I REALLY wanted to go. How many of you made it to this one?
Wow sorry, I don’t know how I got, something with ‘ash’ in it from ‘1fallingangels1’.
So, place fa, between Ivan & TTFN.
Oceanchick – 9, all told.
That’s a very decent turn-out. Will there be another? I’d really like to meet you all:)
There likely will be another. FA’s right — they weren’t really all that great at the pancakey place. Probably because they’re constantly jammed and if they lose one pack of customers, there’s another right behind them ready to take their place. I saw tons of people go in and come right back out. In the end we had a great time where we ended up.
I just wish I had’ve had more of an appetite yesterday because I didn’t even finish half my lunch. C’est triste!
Also: ralmn — we don’t bite! Promise!
now that we’ve had nine, i think all bets are off and the world of the bitch is in super nova mode. that makes no sense, i blame the drugs^^
Next time we need to hire a place with a private room. …And bill the Coast for enabling us. *Sqwak*
well, as the weather warms my thoughts turn to staff parties on saturday. since we only have two employees we need some more warm bodies. the yard is big and fenced, you can bring your dogs and make merry in the northend^^just a thought
It was great to meet everyone. 🙂 Hopefully we can do it again sooner rather than later.
Hay, the place we ended up has a private room! But it was pretty much only us there so it was like a private room 🙂
In any event, just wanted to say top of the mornin’ to everyone — migraine monday for PK. Explains why I ate so little yesterday. And I’m jammed at work over the next few days so y’all might not be seeing much of me over the next few days. Yay for being focused? heh.
Anyway all you guys deserve a big fat asscone. Y’all made my month, at least 🙂
haha, or for zZz less than three <3
grrrrr
PS: I ended up watching that centipede movie last night.
Probably the most disturbing thing I have ever seen in my life. And I don’t really find much “disturbing”… esp like that.
HAHA LTWWB field trip to see the sequel? LOL
OK back to friggin work.
Someone probably would have told you about it at some point but I still feel bad. SOBova and I each knew about it’s existence for over a year before telling the other. We try to protect each other in that regard. >: (
Hey, if you truly have time to waste…
next up… Zardoz….
http://www.hawgleg.com/images/news/zardoz_…
Nah I think we could slip the bill through Peter. We’ll say we’re getting a concert together. It’ll be a slam dunk.
At least the only coprophilia in Zardoz was whoever greenlit the project in the first place. I never recommend the use of chemical narcotics but in this case an exception can be made.
For lighter fare try….
http://www.cinemaretro.com/uploads/patast2…
Wendy O. Williams’ big screen debut.
I’ve already invited Kid Rock to the next Bitcher’s Summit, Tim, so I’d say it’s a slam dunk.
Yesterday was a whole pile of fun.
I’m glad we ended up where we did. It was easier to “work blue” without horrifying blue haired lil old ladies.
It was a pleasure to put a face to the Redneck Strutters.
and…
Annieannieannie!
And those burgers……………………. agghgaggaghgaggagh *drool*