# Workplace griping, anyone?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 12, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401 "2010-11-12T06:39:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/3786 "2012-06-20T23:14:25Z")

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I thought surgical maggots are used _because_ they consume dead tissue, promoting healing of the living tissue. Grossness of unexpected maggotry aside\* didn’t they help in the end?

- I had no idea I’d ever type out that phrase in my life.

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