sick

10+ ridiculous reasons why employees took their sick days: 'I got shampoo in my eyes!'

Ben Weiss

Sick stray kitten sits alone on a concrete step until someone notices her, until a wholesome couple comes along and gives her a second chance

Blake Seidel

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

Worker with 4 jobs and 5 roommates gets sick but managers force him to come in anyway: 'Now everyone has it including [my] managers'

Ben Weiss

‘I thought I’d take one — but I couldn’t leave the others behind’: Family fosters four sick rescue kittens, including one who’s blind, then decides to keep the entire litter together in their furever home

Laurent Shinar

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

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

Sister-in-law pressures woman to become the sole caretaker of her ill mother, even though she is 8 months pregnant and preparing to be a new mom: ‘I don’t have the capacity—emotionally, physically, or logistically’

Lana DeGaetano

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

17-year-old couple takes sick bunny to vet only to learn that the required surgery is $3,000, but miraculously, the rabbit gets healed by determined mom who won't give up on her

Blake Seidel

'You don't sound sick to me': Employee refuses to give in to management pressures not to use any PTO, records conversation with boss to prove their actions are illegal

Bar Mor Hazut

Dad fakes sick for 2 months to avoid going to work, blames mom for them not having enough money to buy their 15-year-old daughter a new iPhone: 'I am also unable to work because my youngest is 6 months old'

Emmy Pratt

New mom raises $2800 to take unpaid leave to care for her sick 3-month-old baby, coworker discovers she was actually planning on using the money to fund a Canadian vacation: 'The baby's totally fine, my mom can watch him'

Emmy Pratt

'She apologized': Nurse practitioner tries to pull rank and ignores patient warnings from fellow hospital workers, instantly regrets it when patient delivers her karma

Isabella Penn

Concerned pawrent takes her sick cat to the vet, only to be charged over $600 for x-rays she explicitly said she didn't want: 'I told the nurse twice that I didn’t want x-rays and she just said that the nurse “didn’t get that message".'

Blake Seidel

Employee tells boss he needs to take off work to take his sick wife to the emergency room, boss insists he needs him at work: 'I get you may need to take her. But I do need you there today.'

Emmy Pratt