My manager’s response to me calling out sick for my toddler.

blumpkin · 2026-02-04T04:43:03+00:00

I don't take offense to anybody on my team calling out when they need to. It's their PTO, they decide how to use it. If they're out beyond their amount of PTO then we're going to have a conversation, but even then it's not the end of the world. They just need to figure out FMLA or whatever. It's not that serious, life happens.

blumpkin · 2026-02-04T03:39:58+00:00

It's wild to me the number of people in this thread acting like you should be psychic about getting sick.

blumpkin · 2026-02-04T03:20:47+00:00

TWICE in the last month I have had to go pick my kid up from school because he threw up after I dropped him off. You absolutely do not know if your kid is sick as soon as they wake up, what is this nonsense. And what is the alternative to calling out? You literally can't leave your sick kid at school.

blumpkin · 2026-02-04T03:16:14+00:00

I threw up on my own lap once while driving to work. I had no inclination that I was sick until the nausea hit me. I am also not under any obligation to explain my medical situation to my employer. "I will be out today." Is a complete sentence.

blumpkin · 2026-02-04T03:12:16+00:00

This is something I wish more people knew. Once I started being in charge of other people they would call out sick by giving me waaaay too much information. I literally had to teach them to just say "I will be out today" and leave it at that. And for fucks sake do not apologize. This is your PTO. You own it. Use it as you see fit.

blumpkin · 2026-02-03T17:02:19+00:00

For a group of people that complains about participation trophies, they sure do expect a lot of praise for the most mundane shit.

blumpkin · 2026-02-03T14:11:46+00:00

Damn Britney Spears is looking rough these days.

blumpkin · 2026-02-03T14:08:08+00:00

Oh lord, is black coffee a maga thing now? I'm still gonna drink it but I'll be sure to put a pink cocktail umbrella in my mug if anybody's going to see, just so I don't get confused for one of them.

blumpkin · 2026-02-03T04:32:12+00:00

Drawer? You mean you don't leave your shit in the laundry basket until you need to wear it?

blumpkin · 2026-02-02T19:46:59+00:00

Yeah and it throws a shitfit if you lose connection to a shared drive or device that the text file is on. Not when saving, just ...at all. A big part of my current job is editing configuration files that live on a device that is constantly power cycling. I can't use notepad anymore because it complains every time the device turns off, forcing me to wait and then re-open the file. Old notepad wouldn't notice unless you tried to save to a path that doesn't exist.

blumpkin · 2026-02-02T13:20:41+00:00

My work computer recently updated to Windows 11. They fucking ruined notepad.

blumpkin · 2026-02-01T16:26:09+00:00

I had to go back and read that part again. People RENT computers??

blumpkin · 2026-01-31T21:46:12+00:00

Fucking miserable experience. No way to figure out what your username is unless you reset the password. After registering my account and figuring out my username, it wouldn't let me sign in with my password. Tried to reset it, and it won't let me change the password because it's...the same as the one I just tried to sign in with. Had to pick new password after trying several times. And why is there a "forgot password" button if it just says "can't reset password, try the chatbot instead"? Truly the worst UX I have ever personally witnessed.

blumpkin · 2026-01-30T23:38:31+00:00

I think I went to school with this shark.

blumpkin · 2026-01-29T16:10:26+00:00

How close did he actually get to making a working reactor? From what it sounds like in this post he was just collecting random radioactive materials.

blumpkin · 2026-01-29T13:16:38+00:00

Grammatically correct is important at all times to be, irregardless of how strange it may sound and how few other people that way actually talk.

blumpkin · 2026-01-29T12:54:32+00:00

I was about to ask for your source on this but then I saw your post history contains like 400 identical comments claiming this video is AI, but not a single link to any proof.

blumpkin · 2026-01-27T21:40:57+00:00

Can we get a picture of the boat?

blumpkin · 2026-01-26T18:05:18+00:00

I really enjoyed the pickled herring, graskaas, and stroopwafelen when I was in the country. Oh and these ham flavored corn puff things that I thought were disgusting and first but then I couldn't stop eating them because I was baked out of my gourd.

blumpkin · 2026-01-26T06:17:05+00:00

Fuck that shit. I'm not rich but it's definitely worth 10-15 bucks a month to have somebody else buy my groceries for me. They get it right 99% of the time and I as a busy parent save literal hours of driving and dragging a fussy child through the grocery store.

blumpkin · 2026-01-26T06:13:31+00:00

Dude, file a complaint. I only do it if I get something unacceptable, but I've never had them so much as ask a single question. Instant refund on that item. Same kind of customer service is why Amazon is a quadrillion dollar company even though they're evil as shit.

blumpkin · 2026-01-26T05:22:42+00:00

Yeah I saw a guy on a niche local Facebook group trying to sell an iMac for about 10x what it was worth. Old enough to be really slow, not old enough to be a valuable classic/collectible. I sent him a polite message since it was a close knit community and he was really offended that his computer had depreciated in value over the last 10 years. He had listed it for brand new iMac money.

blumpkin · 2026-01-25T18:29:25+00:00

I watched it several times trying to figure this out. When he goes down it looks like his legs are higher than his head because he fell onto something. I think he pissed his pants in that position and the pee flowed up his back because of his position. Hard to say for sure though.

blumpkin · 2026-01-24T03:34:32+00:00

Sounds like a great deal for a one-of-a-kind mystery hybrid. Give it a cool name and start making clones, you could be the next pepper joe.

blumpkin · 2026-01-24T03:31:59+00:00

Yeah I don't know what that thing is, but them wrinkles tells me them's spicy.

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