My family works in garment production, and they often slap the dry-clean only label on everything and anything that is not just a basic cotton tshirt with no prints. If they underestimate the delicacy or fragility of any of the components, they'll be on hook for any returns or damages. A dry-clean only label is free,…

Yes. Finding and not returning = stealing. Sorry to burst your finders keepers bubble, but that's the law and how it works outside of a kindergarten playground. So yes, that makes you a bad person. What if someone forgot to lock their car? They obviously don't care about it, so perfectly alright for you to steal. Or…

Yea - it's completely pointless - it's just that you explained your opposition to it by saying you're ALLERGIC in capital letters.

I just get non-iron shirts for most of my everyday work shirts (I get normal cotton ones for biz-casual days or general wear, but I don't worry about getting them perfectly ironed as much). Good quality Brooks Brothers ones go for $40 ish a pop on sale, and you can go down to $17 from Costco. At $1.75 a clean, you'll…

Yes. You're just a bad person. Would you think it's wrong to steal $10k in cash from a random person? And a ring is worth far more than cash because of sentimental value.

Well traditionally, men are supposed to spend 3 months income on the engagement ring - which is pretty much 1/4 of total annual income, so that actually fits it.

Then don't eat the 0.00000001% of food that has gold in it? We don't ban peanut butter or Reese because a far far larger percentage of the population is allergic to it. And, you are a far lower risk of accidentally ingesting gold because any dish where they dump gold into it is sure to have it advertised in big big…

Yes, we will mandate that all divorced men gain full custody and become sole child care providers (and if they fall below standard, they'll be arrested for child abuse, men in general should all be required to have equivalent responsibilities for child care, and all men can get mandatory vasectomies (since we're…

Then it would be the same as for a stationary oil rig, or a smaller ship/oil tanker. It's probably safer because all things considered, a larger ship can withstand adverse weather better.

Well this particular person was a 20 year old with pneumonia (and none of the other stuff).

Yes , men do wear skinny jeans ( But denim is very different from legging fabric, so they aren't essentially leggings) but again it's gender neutral (and women are more likely to wear skinny jeans as well). I mean you would agree that your HR policy is perfectly reasonable unless you allow men to wear an unbuttoned…

Yes...because you were forced to right? That's exactly my point, you shouldn't be forced to go to work when sick for pay, just like a student shouldnt' be forced to go to school when sick. Which is why I think there should be better policies in place that allow you to take paid time off, just as schools should have…

I think the policy against leggings is probably gender neutral- the article just refers to girls, because generally only girls wear leggings. I.e. this is exactly the same as the "dress codes" that you implement at work. If you ban low-cut shirts, you may make it gender-neutral - but men generally don't wear lowcut…

Yes there is - and especially since acceptable businesswear for men is far more restrictive and covering (full suit)

That's true. But I'd bet that when you had pneumonia you didn't drag yourself to work because it was a better option than staying at home right? I'm just saying that she should not have been in school in the first place, and the school policies that lead to her being there need to be revisited.

I thought so too - but in response to my earlier comment that someone that sick should not be at school other commenters stated that some school's require doctor notes for all medical absences. I was saying that should be changed because not all sick kids can afford to go to the doctor, particularly for illnesses…

Well this isn't something there can be definitive proof of (unless you manage to find a study). My position is that the number of kids who have parents who think that going to school does so much harm to their kids they are willing to call in and lie on a consistent basis to say they're sick, and who have kids who…

And it's also not something you should be exposing hundreds of school children to. Do school's generally have a nurse on staff?

Kids who want to be truant will be truants - they're not going to recruit their parents to call the school and lie to be truant. However, this recognizes that people are sometimes sick in a way that means it's not a good idea for them to go to school or work (risk of spreading diseases, or making illnesses worse…

It was not a kidney infection, it was "suspected pneumonia", which generously is treated with adequate bed rest and chicken soup. And either way, she should not be going to school if she is suffering from a suspected infectious disease. All that does is spread it to everyone else at school.