It really is. A huge shift has gone down in this country just in my life time, or maybe they're just much better at blatantly lying to you about it in your school years but...

Yup. I work in a nursing home doing direct patient care and we get officially told not to come in sick, but heaven forbid you call out. Better to just come in and wear a mask all day. Every year when the GI bug starts going around they refuse to shut down the dining room for several days and so everyone gets it, and…

It's also not usually recommended health wise! If you're sick, but not seriously so, you're supposed to stay home and not go to a doctor's office and infect other people or expose yourself to other germs while you're compromised.

"I don't believe you just said that, so we're even."

And the worst part is, it doesn't end here, not by a long shot. Do you think workers who work in slaughterhouses or picking fruit/veggies or harvesting grains or in the fishing industry get anything like a fucking sick day? Or the workers in shipping warehouses that send foods all over the world? Or the packagers who…

When I delivered Pizzas, my boss flat out told me "I dont believe in contamination and germs. You can't get someone else sick." when I told him I shouldnt work because I was sick. I stared blankly at him waiting for him to say he was failing at sarcasm. He didn't.

I worked at a Pick Up Stix in the early 00's, at some point I had some horrible throat infection thing that made it impossible to swallow, hard to breath, I was coughing and hacking like crazy. When I looked in a mirror it looked like something had basically laid eggs on the back of my throat.

I was living at home at…

"...but this is the US where illness is a bad choice made by the patient."

The main reason I did this for this week is that I feel like everyone needs to see this shit. People need to know these aren't isolated incidents.

This actually made me cry.

This SO does not surprise me. A few years ago I worked as a receptionist at a doctor's office and I had a horrible case of bronchitis. I couldn't go 30 seconds without coughing. The doctor refused to give me even one day off. I was greeting patients who may have had compromised immune systems by coughing in their…

Having a Master in Public Health and worked/working in restaurants my whole life (and being able to add SO MANY of these stories), if I ever get my PhD, my dissertation research is going to be the epidemiology of disease spread among restaurant workers to the customer. Only, I doubt any restaurant would ever let me…

Oh jesus, his mother was born in 1975? Fuck, I'm old.

Sandwhy, that's what I want to know.

Papa's expression here is downright disturbing.

I delivered pizza for Papa John's in college. I quit in a blaze of glory, both birds flying, when the manager told me he'd fire me if I refused to deliver to a set of motels after dark. At the time there was an un-apprehended violent rapist attacking women in motel parking lots in my town. I told him I'd take every…

I knight thee Sir Flutterwings.

As a (mostly) vegetarian, I've learned to add umami by roasting vegetables and using soy sauce and miso (white and red) and nutritional yeast in stews and gravies. No meat required. My meat-loving husband happily eats what I prepare. Because it tastes good. No "diet" will work long-term if the food just sucks. I've…

It burns. It really burns.

Not gonna lie, I was concerned D:, but then I just chalked it up to "that big post about tips is probably what took up the slot". Seems I was right and my concern was stupid <3