You're sick? Get your ass home then!

[Bright_Star]

I'm getting over a cold right now & it reminds me of how when i was working at Wal-Mart how many sick idiots were there shopping when they should have been at home in bed. I'd hear..."cough cough" I'm sick, I really should be home in bed"sniff sniff". & all the while just coughing & sneezing in my direction while ringing them up & no real way to avoid them. So that would mean that eventually half the store would get sick. I used to get colds 3 or 4 times a year while working at Wally World.
& try calling off when you're sick & the assistant managers would give you MAJOR attitude. Most times I'd be sick enough to be miserable BUT not sick enough to call off. BUT IF I tossed my cookies then I called off-don't want to be running to the bathroom to toss your cookies every 5 minutes.
The weather is changing from being warm to cool so it's getting to be cold & flu season again. Go into Wal-Mart right now & I betcha that half the cashiers have colds.

[GingerBiscuit]

It's dreadful where we are, as we sell a lot of supplements, so every comes in when they're ill to get advice on how to make them better.

EVeryone has an almost constant cold, and last year I missed our works meal because I suddenly got very sick and threw up on the shop floor, and spent three days vomiting and shaking

[Rapscallion]

It's dreadful where we are, as we sell a lot of supplements, so every comes in when they're ill to get advice on how to make them better.

We get those. Whilst the majority of them are old and want to live forever, we get a few people who are fatally ill. They want something to cure them that medical science cannot provide, and they'll clutch at any straw. They're rare, but we simply cannot guarantee that a handful of goji berries a week will cure their condition. They've heard rumours from quacks that are trying to push their pills, often certain twats such as the one exposed under that link.

Rapscallion

[evilhomer]

How I loathe sick people in the public. The worst cold I've had in the past ten years came courtesy of one of them. I was on the subway and this assclown sitting next to me was coughing and sneezing away. I was going to get up and move but it was packed and my feet were killing me so I needed a seat. There he was coughing away, no tissue, only occasionally bringing his hand to his mouth, just going off in whatever direction tickled his fancy, spreading his germs without regard for anyone. Woke up the next morning sick as a dog. Fortunately I had the sense to call in rather than spreading it further.

[Ducky Dew]

They send their kids to school sick, as well. My youngest is extremely susceptible to strep, only instead of just the typical sore throat it settles into his eyes. After being treated for repeated cases of "pink eye", the scarring finally became evident and that's when it was diagnosed. Most of the scarring is gone now, thankfully, just a bit at the edge of his vision. However he will be on antibiotic and steroid ointments in his eyes for the rest of his life. Whenever he's exposed, we have to double up the dose.

I understand how hard it is to take off work when you have a little one sick. I've been blessed to have family willing and able to step in and help when I needed them. I realize not everyone is so lucky. But it still pisses me off to no end when I get that call, every year 3 or 4 times a year, from the school nurse letting me know she's sent X kids home w/ strep, so I need to start upping the meds again.

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

We get those. Whilst the majority of them are old and want to live forever, we get a few people who are fatally ill. They want something to cure them that medical science cannot provide, and they'll clutch at any straw. They're rare, but we simply cannot guarantee that a handful of goji berries a week will cure their condition. They've heard rumours from quacks that are trying to push their pills, often certain twats such as the one exposed under that link.

Rapscallion

That's a great site! I love it! BTW, I have a crackpot site at Insolitology.

Can't keep this in, though--in the US, uh, twat is a big, big no-no! It's uh...you know, like puta in Spanglish.

Not that I'm above "worse" words.

[Shengirl]

Can't keep this in, though--in the US, uh, twat is a big, big no-no! It's uh...you know, like puta in Spanglish.

True, but its use isn't prevalent enough that it even occurred to me while reading Rapscallion's post. Might just be my area of the country, though.

[BookstoreEscapee]

True, but its use isn't prevalent enough that it even occurred to me while reading Rapscallion's post. Might just be my area of the country, though.

In another context, I would be like but knowing it's Raps I figured it means something else over there...


I had a woman once who standing at my counter, waiting for another employee to get something for her or something, hacking and coughing all over my counter...while she was telling me about her daughter waiting in the car...with mono !

[Broomjockey]

Can't keep this in, though--in the US, uh, twat is a big, big no-no! It's uh...you know, like puta in Spanglish.

True, but its use isn't prevalent enough that it even occurred to me while reading Rapscallion's post. Might just be my area of the country, though.

Well, it's used the same in Canada, though hardly frequently. And frankly, it's one of the tamer words, as far as I and those I know are concerned, so the severity must be a local thing.

[Andara Bledin]

Can't keep this in, though--in the US, uh, twat is a big, big no-no! It's uh...you know, like puta in Spanglish.

I'm in the US, and I suspect I'm the one using "twat" the most. It's become rather less common in the last decade, so I decided to revive it, here. *shrug*

Anyway, it's not the same as "puta" which is Spanish slang for whore.

"Twat" in the US is similar to "fanny" in the UK. They're both slang for female genitalia.

Also, in the US, "twat" when used to refer to a male is fairly tame, more along the lines of "dipshit", or "incompetent twit", and the like.

... what can I say... I'm a word nerd.

^-.-^

[GingerBiscuit]

I use it as a mild almost-affectionate swearword (uk-based). As in- he's a right twat, but I like him. Used to mean slightly worse than an idiot, but not quite a dumbf**k.

[cinema guy]

As someone who has just suffered a cold, I will say that while I try to avoid going shopping (or anything else that requires me to leave house), it is still neccesary for me to buy food and cold remedies after I've used up my supplies. And since I live on my own, there is no avoiding it.

[LadyAndreca]

Heh, that happened to me last spring. I picked up a nasty cold from a customer, which put me flat out in bed for several days. Well, my manager got really nasty with me and bullied me into coming in anyway on the first day I started sort of feeling better. I KNEW if I stayed home one more day to recover, I'd be fine. But I was too tired to argue, and wound up miserable for the rest of the week.

Two days after, the girl I'd worked with started complaining about the exact same symptoms I'd had. I felt awful, especially when a day later two cashiers got it.

[ShinyGreenApple]

This still pisses me off to no end. I can understand if you're coming in to buy cough medicine, etc. You just can't avoid it sometimes. BUT if I see you tra-la-la-ing your way up to my counter with a full blown cold/flu and you are only getting the latest Soap Opera Digest and a package of iced lemon bread, don't get upset when I give you the death glare.

[MystyGlyttyr]

I have a bit of an overblown immune system...I can get the flu and be done with it in about three days while the rest of my family is suffering for a week or two.

It also makes me slow to pick up anything, so by the time I DO catch things, half the folks at work have already had it (and some are on their second go), so I just come on in to work anyway because no one's gonna catch it from me that hasn't already got it. It's rare that I'm sick enough to not come into work (it's such a relaxed, flexible environment...my boss lets me take a ten minute break to go lay down on our sofa if I get really woozy), but there's been a couple times I've actually been SENT home because my coworkers thought I was going to conk out in my keyboard. I just hate to miss work...

I do try to avoid stores and the like, though.