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Manager asks employee with a 101-degree fever to come into work, demands a doctor's note if he misses more than 2 days of work: 'The age of "get well soon" has officially ended.'

Emmy Pratt

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Boss reprimands employee for not covering his sick coworker's last-minute shift because he was 2 hours away: 'She didn’t believe I was unavailable to cover, and that I just didn’t want to.'

Emmy Pratt

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Dad refuses to call an ambulance for his 25-year-old son, whose spleen ruptured, because he was at work and ambulances are expensive: 'He looked at me and asked if I could drive myself.'

Emmy Pratt

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Dad shames mom for going to a concert when their 10-year-old daughter is sick during his custody time: 'He's saying I'm being selfish and I should skip my trip so he doesn't catch whatever she has.'

Emmy Pratt

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Stepmother insists on homeschooling her 12-year-old stepdaughter because of her medical issues, going against her and her mom's wishes: 'We already homeschool our 6-year-old.'

Emmy Pratt

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A Snotty Tissue of Sniffly Laughs for People Under the Weather to Sneeze Into

Elna McHilderson

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Dad pesters his half-unconscious wife with a 104-degree fever, asking her how to get their 4 kids ready for bed: 'I just snapped and told him to figure it out on his own'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom refuses to take her son to the hospital after he spikes a 106.3 degree fever: 'That's over 41 degrees Celsius'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom bans 58-year-old grandma from her 6-year-old grandson's hospital room after putting her 'miracle water' into his IV: 'I would rather have her mad at me than my son septic'

Emmy Pratt

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Stressed brother lashes out at sister, after discovering that she started an outdoor workout on her smart watch, while walking to meet at the hospital to see their suddenly-sick dad: 'It's just what I do when I go walk anywhere'

Emma Saven

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'Basically half the calendar is 'you can't be sick'': Boss at preschool tries to punish employee for using state-protected sick leave

JR Atkinson

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32-year-old mom refuses to care for her sick 68-year-old mother-in-law after she tried to get her son to divorce her: 'She told my husband multiple times that he deserves better and that I was too fragile to be a good wife and mother'

Emmy Pratt

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High school choir director makes 16-year-old star singer to perform with laryngitis, faces payback in her junior year: 'I was humiliated. I wanted revenge'

Ally Perry

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Entitled sister expects 33-year-old sibling, who is already taking care of their father multiple days a week, to fund their father's professional in-home care entirely: ‘I’m already taking on a big part-time caregiving role. I can’t cover everything’

Lana DeGaetano

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50-year-old caregiver refuses to let her 52-year-old diabetic bedbound husband, who sleeps 20 hours a day, come on the family cruise vacation with her and her 2 daughters: 'He’s mad and sulking.'

Emmy Pratt

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Couple try to bring unwell 2-year-old son on friend vacation, demand back non-refundable $2000 when told they can't come: 'Morgan told us we were selfish and horrible friends'

Ally Perry

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