# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 253
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5041 "2025-07-27T18:58:20Z")
That’s the beauty of doublespeak. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5042 "2025-07-27T20:49:11Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Guy who fired teachers for providing a link to the Brooklyn Library watches porn in his office Every accusation is a confession, as they say. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5043 "2025-07-28T00:37:59Z")
[No sick days for students.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tennessee-school-won-t-accept-004318860.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > (NewsNation) — One Tennessee school district will [no longer accept doctors’ notes](https://people.com/doctors-notes-wont-excuse-child-absences-school-district-says-11778934) to excuse an absence despite objections from parents. > > Lawrence County School System officials [said the school is instituting the policy](https://www.newschannel10.com/2025/07/23/school-district-says-doctors-notes-will-no-longer-excuse-child-absences/) **to teach students work ethic and reliability, saying that students will be expected to go to work sick or injured as adults.** > > It is also intended to address [chronic absenteeism](https://www.yahoo.com/news/chronic-absenteeism-sounding-alarm-bells-100000243.html), defined as missing 10 percent or more of instructional time. In the 2023-2024 school year, Lawrence County had a 14 percent rate of chronic absenteeism. Help me out herre, folks. When’s the last time you saw someone coming to work with a compound fracture? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5044 "2025-07-28T00:45:57Z")
If they were being fair about this they would also mandate that all government employees (including them) can never take a sick-day. Of course, they will not do that. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5045 "2025-07-28T00:46:10Z")
First time any intestinal disorder comes around they’re going to have kids puking all over the classrooms, aren’t they? And, of course, in the process spreading it to everybody else in the school. I hope some of them puke on said officials. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5046 "2025-07-28T00:47:13Z")
Which employers expect their employees to show up for work while sick or injured? Is that a thing in Tennessee? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5047 "2025-07-28T00:54:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [No sick days for students.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tennessee-school-won-t-accept-004318860.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) Are they going to send truancy officers to the hospitals after the next mass shooting? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5048 "2025-07-28T01:22:55Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [No sick days for students.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tennessee-school-won-t-accept-004318860.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > > > [@](#): > > > > (NewsNation) — One Tennessee school district will [no longer accept doctors’ notes](https://people.com/doctors-notes-wont-excuse-child-absences-school-district-says-11778934) to excuse an absence despite objections from parents. > > > > Lawrence County School System officials [said the school is instituting the policy](https://www.newschannel10.com/2025/07/23/school-district-says-doctors-notes-will-no-longer-excuse-child-absences/) **to teach students work ethic and reliability, saying that students will be expected to go to work sick or injured as adults.** > > > > It is also intended to address [chronic absenteeism](https://www.yahoo.com/news/chronic-absenteeism-sounding-alarm-bells-100000243.html), defined as missing 10 percent or more of instructional time. In the 2023-2024 school year, Lawrence County had a 14 percent rate of chronic absenteeism. That’s a great idea. The next measles outbreak in Oklahoma will provide a terrific opportunity for sick students to show the stern stuff they’re made of, while helpfully infecting their classmates to ensure permanent immunity from the disease, assuming they survive. Once again, Oklahoma leads the nation. Oklahoma, O-K!!! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5049 "2025-07-28T01:24:41Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Once again, Oklahoma leads the nation. Oklahoma, O-K!!! Tennessee, Oklahoma, all of those red states start to look the same… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5050 "2025-07-28T01:31:27Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Tennessee, Oklahoma, all of those red states start to look the same… 😉 - That’s because they’re all related. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5051 "2025-07-28T02:07:34Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Tennessee, Oklahoma, all of those red states start to look the same… It’s the inbreeding, isn’t it? Dammit, @running_coach ! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5052 "2025-07-28T02:27:15Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I hope some of them puke on said officials. I vote for explosive diarrhea. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5053 "2025-07-28T04:29:50Z")
_O-klahoma where the plague comes sweepin’ down the plain_ _We know we belong to the land And the books in the library [ are banned!](https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/government/2024/08/15/ryan-walters-oklahoma-book-ban/74603297007/) And when we say Yeeow! Ayipioeeay! We’re only sayin’ We’re all sick as dogs In Oklahoma, but that’s O.K.!_ ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5054 "2025-07-28T04:51:40Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Which employers expect their employees to show up for work while sick or injured? Toys R Us did in the mid 90s. Western Washington. I injured myself at work (after being told to do a 2 person job, I objected because it wasn’t safe, I got yelled at so I did it and got hurt). I was 19. When I called in the next day I was accused of faking it. I filed an injury claim and went to the doctor and came in with a sling and a note from a doctor proving it was real and instructions that I needed to be on light duty. My employer reluctantly and angrily admitted it was real but I was not put on light duty and tried my best to do my work injured. Almost 30 years later, that injury still bothers me now and then. (Tendonitis on my dominant wrist.) There are asshole employers everywhere. (Though Toys R Us is mostly gone, rot in Hell, and ironically I work for the same state agency I reported that injury claim to so long ago.) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5055 "2025-07-28T10:40:10Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Which employers expect their employees to show up for work while sick or injured? Is that a thing in Tennessee? Fairly common in retail. Hey, did you know that restaurant workers and grocery store worker - _the people who handle YOUR food_ - don’t get sick days? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5056 "2025-07-28T10:41:51Z")
> [@susan](#): > > > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > > > I hope some of them puke on said officials. > > I vote for explosive diarrhea. Is there a reason it can’t be both? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5057 "2025-07-28T10:45:42Z")
Both would be fancy. I was horrified during the initial years of COVID to hear from restaurant workers who were screamed at and forced to work when they were ill and tested positive. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5058 "2025-07-28T14:15:19Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > Which employers expect their employees to show up for work while sick or injured? Is that a thing in Tennessee? > > Fairly common in retail. > > Hey, did you know that restaurant workers and grocery store worker - _the people who handle YOUR food_ - don’t get sick days? And it’s somehow the employees’ fault if a customer gets sick, too. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5059 "2025-07-28T16:06:59Z")
> **The toddler died after he was trapped inside a hot car while in the custody of a worker contracted by the Alabama Department of Human Resources, the state’s child protective services agency** , according to the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office and the state Department of Human Resources. The Birmingham Police Department is investigating the death. > > K.J. had been left inside a car parked outside a home in Birmingham for several hours during the middle of the day on Tuesday, the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office said > **[Alabama toddler dies in hot car while in state custody | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/26/us/alabama-child-hot-car-death)** > > The family of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr. is remembering the little boy as a “joyful,” “brilliant” “happy boy who loved life, who would light up any room that he would enter into.” Not very protective… ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5060 "2025-07-28T17:50:15Z")
Hope I’m not diverting the narrative. My most outrageous hot car story is from Dear Prudence last summer > **[Help! My Husband Left Our Newborn in a Hot Car. His Way of “Repaying” the...](https://slate.com/advice/2024/07/newborn-hot-car-husband-repaying-family-parenting-advice.html)** > > I need to get through to him. “Lance’s car is customized and he treasures it.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=252) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=254)