Or, for even more bitchy goodness, let her “accidentally” overhear you gossiping with another co-worker about how the poor dear really should sue the surgeon, with the obvious lopsidedness and all…
Damn you, Clothahump.
Actually, if I were to say something about this to her, which I won’t because a) nothing good can come of it and b) it wouldn’t stop with this one issue, it would be something about how the surgery did something to her stomach as I can now see her tits. She is a pretty girl though she has a spare tire that ain’t going away any time soon. It’s too bad that she is a selfish little bitch.
Oh, Otto, I’d rather call in sick than go to work when I am actually sick. The problem was that calling in would have left one person, Jamie as it turns out, alone for a shift. I didn’t want my coworker to be screwed. Of coarse, I ain’t going to have that particular issue anymore.
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Merry Christmas to you too, mijo :rolleyes: .
And much to the dismay of the rest of you: I’m not Jamie and my tits are in fact real. I wish they were fake as that’d fucking rule, but alas- I don’t have $5000-$10,000 to throw around at the moment. If I do get my boobs done, ya’ll will be the first to see. Promise!
Anywho, the OP didn’t say that she claimed it was a “medical emergency”- yeah, THAT is fucked up. As I read it, she requested time off for surgery, she got the time off, OP is bitching because she took time off for a boob job. In that case, the OP can suck a fat one.
But, as it stands, it seems that she was a bitch. So, right on.
So, uh, you got a PayPal account we can start donating to? 
Ya think I can sell some advertising space on the implant to the SDMB? I could make BILLIONS! … ok, hundreds.
Actually, the SDMB is already overrun with BOOBS*. We don’t need new ones.
*This does not include any paying members, nor does it include any current Guests who are posting legally. 
Well curses! And I thought I had a wonderful business model. Merry Christmas, INDEED!
Nobody asked her what kind of surgery she needed to have prior to the scheduling changes?
Honestly, if I told my boss I needed to have surgery done and he asked for details, I’d be insulted. Medical matters are as private as it gets. That’s why this is so annoying: she’s using the polite sense of delicacy that others have to get away with something.
I guess it didn’t occur to anyone.
…because they’re a bunch of BOOBS!
When she returns, get her an “adult” boob cake and a big banner congratulating her on her surgery. Be studiously cheerful about doing her job while she shopped for new bras. “Glad we could help you get a new chest, Jamie!!” Digicams and malted milk balls all around. :rolleyes:
No it wouldn’t.
Am I really the only person here who thinks women who have surgery to enlarge their breasts are more vain and shallow than those who don’t?
Everyone is taking pains to say, “Oh, I don’t care what she’s having done, only that she portrayed it as an emergency when it’s not.” If so, my hat is off to all you scruplulously non-judgemental folk. If it were me, I’d be angry both because she lied and because the thing she lied about (and that I had to cover for) was stupid, unnecessary and wrong.
AFAIC, the only upside to a boob job is that it serves as a warning to others about what sort of person is wearing it. The same benefit to society would accrue if the woman just had “I am a superficial tool” tattooed across her forehead.
Just reactivated my membership two hours ago, and I’m already in trouble…
judgemental=judgmental
I profess that I’m ignorant about cosmetic surgery such as the aforementioned augmentation. However, I was under the impression that prior to the surgery, the patient went through a number of steps to determine its psychological necessity. Is that not the case?
I think it’s more that most of us are aware that we live in glass houses, and that if someone were to scrutinize our spending choices, they could find plenty of things that are as “stupid and unnecessary” (and why breast augmentation would be more “wrong” than any other “stupid and unnecessary” thing is a can of worms, as opinions about the value of female sexual expression are complicated, to say the least ).
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Thank you for explaining this. I didn’t get that part of the OP at all.
Pictures, if you please? 
I really have read all the posts in here. Might I ask something?
Let’s say this Jamie isn’t one to abuse the system one bit. Let’s say that Jamie is excited about her upcoming tits…er…nuptuals and has never taken advantage of anyone at the workplace. Till now. Because of this.
Would it be out of line to even ASK or NEED to know the reason why someone is taking personal time? Is it anybody’s business at a workplace if a co-worker is having a colonoscopy, lumpectomy, testicular tortion surgey, brain tumor removal, boob job or any other damned thing?
I understand the OP’s rage, it sounds as though this young lady is, shall we charitably say, a wee tad selfish? However, I feel that the reactions to her particular personality issues should be separated from whether or not anybody has any darned right at all to know why a co-worker is taking days off of work.
What if she was engaged. And was going to a surgeon. To have her breasts worked on. And that’s all you heard about it. And were outraged in the extreme.
Then four months later, you find out that she’d had bilateral radical mastectomies and the “boob job” was in fact surgical modifications done to the musculature and underlying tissues post-recovery in an attempt to return a certain shape to that region. ( Forget for the fact that many if not all reconstructions are done during breast tissue removal/mastectomies ).
Here’s my point.
A. It’s not your business. She’s having a medical proceedure done. It’s her choice what it is.
B. It is your employer’s job to manage the shared work-load. If she took time off and it was approved by management, then they should have worked out sharing her chores with the rest of you so that nobody was resentful. OR, they should have offered the increased work-load to one or two people, with commensurate overtime pay. ( A nice thing to be offered sometimes, especially when one may be buying lots of gifts. )
I get it. She got a boob job and stuck you guys with tons of work, and is a snake about such things. But, as a general rule, I feel strongly that it is nobody’s business what the reason is for personal time off.
My wife got shit for taking the day off on the day that my children became Naturalized American Citizens- and she teaches in an Elementary School. Didn’t matter. Her co-workers resented her absence deeply because it cost them their free periods. She wasn’t sick, she should have been at work.
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The ONLY reason she got time off was because of a MEDICAL EMERGENCY, a boob job is NOT an emergency. He said that the other people asked for time off before she did, so she wasn’t able to get off, except for a MEDICAL EMERGENCY.