Purdue_Pete: She should attend therapy and just get over it...

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"DON'T TELL ME WHAT I CAN'T DO!"

SoCalSurfer: [m.nypost.com image 300x450]

"I gave my kidney and all I got was this bottle of butthurt"

You should re-read the article.

If my boss told me she had kidney failure, I'd tell her that she could beat it by drinking 5 cans of Coke a day.

stevetherobot: Headso: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: SoCalSurfer: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Teknowaffle: exick: Who the hell donates a kidney for their boss? Even if a family member needed one, I'd have to think long and hard about it.

My father in law needed a new kidney, and was pressuring my wife into giving him one of hers. She matched, but then she got a kidney infection, and was told she shouldn't donate. She was relieved. She loves her dad, but at the time he was 68, and well, old. She was 25, and didn't want to risk it later in life if she ended up with kidney failure.

Well, he got one last summer at 69. He hasn't been making any actual use of it. He just sits at home all day, refuses to travel further than LA, and that was a tough sell. He was tied to the house because of his dialysis, and now he has no reason to be. My wife is now even happier that she didn't give him a kidney.

Your wife sounds like a coont.

No, his wife sounds reasonable. Whats wrong with that line of thinking?

Yeah, there may be more to the story. Maybe the dad felt her up when she was little or something.

IMO it's pretty farked up for a geriatric parent to be guilt tripping his 20 something kid into giving up a body part that is very important to a long healthy life. You'd have to be pretty selfish to do that to your kid.

I agree, but it seems a bit odd to biatch that all someone does with a new kidney is stay alive rather than traveling and living it up.

Well, that is all he talked about doing before he got it. He was going to go back to his homeland, travel in his RV. Now, a person that died gave him a second chance at life, and now he just sits at home like before, biatching at his wife all day.

I know that there can be some issues of being nervous with all the complications, but he has gotten the all clear from his doctors to travel abroad even.

Embden.Meyerhof: Has anyone pointed out that the headline is factually incorrect? She didn't donate the kidney to her boss, she donated it to someone who was higher on the transplant list so that her boss could move up the list faster.

Facts? in 2012? where the heck have you been?
move along citizen, get with the program...you let us worry about things like facts, oh yeah, and vote incumbent

"I ate her kidney with some fava beans and a nice chianti." ~Jackie Brucia

CthulhuCalling: /Is there such as thing as "takesies-backsies" in organ donation?

No, but in a pinch there's always stabsies-ruinies.

Oblig?

This is all just a brilliant plan to get the donor properly paid for her kidney. CEO of billion dollar company needs kidney which is solicited from the faithful employee. CEO behaves in a way that she knows will be worthy of being sued without being a blatant collaborator with the employee. Employee sues. Billion dollar company settles. Everybody wins and nobody goes to jail for selling a kidney.

\Who's your sociopath now?

Add me to the "Who the fark gives up a kidney for a boss?" pile

I would for my daughter without a thought. I'd likely be willing for my parents and my sister depending on circumstances, mainly prognosis and cause of the problem. If it's a hereditary disease chances are me going one kidney down could be a bad move. I'd be more likely for my sister because my parents are older and in poor health. I suspect neither one would want me to take the risk for the short term gain under these circumstances, much for the same reason I would give up mine no matter the risk if it was for my daughter. No one wants to outlive their child.

No one else would be given a second thought.

but my BS meter is spiking when the "victim" says she wasn't told about what post-surgery would be like. I happen to have a friend who does kidney transplant post-op nursing. The process of a living donor coughing up a kidney includes counselling about what the surgery and recovery is like and the future health risks of having only one kidney. they are very explicit and all inclusive.

Maybe thats just minor posturing for the lawsuit and the rest of the story is correct but I know that part is BS

ourbigdumbmouth: Love it.
I'd ask for it back. It was an implied contract.

I'd take it back.

CthulhuCalling: putting that

CthulhuCalling: Teknowaffle: exick: Who the hell donates a kidney for their boss? Even if a family member needed one, I'd have to think long and hard about it.

My father in law needed a new kidney, and was pressuring my wife into giving him one of hers. She matched, but then she got a kidney infection, and was told she shouldn't donate. She was relieved. She loves her dad, but at the time he was 68, and well, old. She was 25, and didn't want to risk it later in life if she ended up with kidney failure.

Well, he got one last summer at 69. He hasn't been making any actual use of it. He just sits at home all day, refuses to travel further than LA, and that was a tough sell. He was tied to the house because of his dialysis, and now he has no reason to be. My wife is now even happier that she didn't give him a kidney.

I blame you for putting that stupid Bryan Adams song in my head.

sonofabiatch.

This boss is an greater troll even than THE GREAT NAME!

She should send these guys to get the kidney back...



/Hot as a holy hand grenade
//Seemed topical

Englebert Slaptyback: Yeah, that kidney is in good hands.

Ohh, that is some delicious yellow journalism. Worst picture imaginable for the evil, soulless boss. The Post is always good for some lulz.

Salem Witch: Your Boss: Nasty_McFilth: Always let your boss die. It's the only way to climb the ladder these days...

NNOOOOOOO!!!!! I don't wanna die!

I LOL'd

How much of a raise do I get if I don't let them let you die?

one miLLION dollars..
/then I'll fire you.

1) Donate kidney
2) Assume you have a "free pass" to fail at work
3) Fail at work
4) Find out you don't have a fre pass when they fire you
5) Sue
6) Profit?

This boss is a true aficionado of lulz.

Badmonkey82009: This is all just a brilliant plan to get the donor properly paid for her kidney. CEO of billion dollar company needs kidney which is solicited from the faithful employee. CEO behaves in a way that she knows will be worthy of being sued without being a blatant collaborator with the employee. Employee sues. Billion dollar company settles. Everybody wins and nobody goes to jail for selling a kidney.

\Who's your sociopath now?

Cripes, the "Boss" isn't the farking CEO, she is the Controller at one dealership in Long Island, she'd be lucky to pull down 100k a year.

Rapmaster2000: [m.nypost.com image 300x450]

If you're going to be drinking with my kidney, I'd prefer you choose something better than Cook's Pink Rose'.

That's her urine sample.

How did they get a pic of her with a bottle of blush and some plastic cups; at curbside or in a parking lot?



Debbie Stevens says she kindly donated a kidney so her ailing boss could move up a list for her own transplant.

"I decided to become a kidney donor to my boss,


Ummm, oh never mind any of this. I feel my brain dying.

halfof33: Badmonkey82009: This is all just a brilliant plan to get the donor properly paid for her kidney. CEO of billion dollar company needs kidney which is solicited from the faithful employee. CEO behaves in a way that she knows will be worthy of being sued without being a blatant collaborator with the employee. Employee sues. Billion dollar company settles. Everybody wins and nobody goes to jail for selling a kidney.

\Who's your sociopath now?

Cripes, the "Boss" isn't the farking CEO, she is the Controller at one dealership in Long Island, she'd be lucky to pull down 100k a year.

Look... I just come up with the idea, you can't expect me to read every single detail and retain it too.

If you ever thought for one second that your boss was a friend ( or even a human being ) I'd like to sell you a used car.

There is nothing lower than a boss. NOTHING. If you did not fark your boss over after you left your job you neglected your sacred duty to all that is just and right.

Teknowaffle: She couldn't see the point in giving up an important organ (especially as who knows if her kidneys will die like his did) at such a young age.

When her father died, they could just put him on ice and she could have just had it transplanted back.

"It wasn't really a gift, dad, so much as a loan."

Got out the dictionary and found this pic next to the word "coont".

Snakeophelia: What my stepfather told him was that, for his grandson, he'd willingly donate both kidneys and put himself on dialysis. He only bought his grandson an extra 8 or so years of life, but he was happy he could do that much.

Now that's the way kidney's should flow, trickle down organomics.

Well played.

Digitalstrange: Add me to the "Who the fark gives up a kidney for a boss?" pile

I would for my daughter without a thought. I'd likely be willing for my parents and my sister depending on circumstances, mainly prognosis and cause of the problem.

...

but my BS meter is spiking when the "victim" says she wasn't told about what post-surgery would be like.

I agree with you fully on both parts of this.

KrispyKritter: maxximillian: If you are expecting anything in return for donating an organ you're doing it for the wrong reason. And there are numerous reasons why she could have been fired. Donating a kidney shouldn't make you untouchable.

holy crap. someone with common sense and logic. you're my farker of the day.

the rest of you who don't know what a gift is has a lot to learn from maxxmillian.

That's a wonderful point. Being an American means literally giving your body to your employer.

Embden.Meyerhof: Has anyone pointed out that the headline is factually incorrect?

New here?

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The appropriate response for kidney stealing.

lennavan: Jument: Weird story all round. Who gives a kidney to their boss?

I would. My boss is a really great guy. Perhaps that's slanting my view here but the lady who donated her kidney is a real biatch here. She donated a kidney to save her boss' life. Not to keep a permanent job, not for career advancement, not for a pay raise, to save her boss' life. It worked, her boss is alive, she should be happy about that. She's not, clearly she expected a quid pro quo and that makes her a biatch.

I think you have an unhealthy attachment to your boss. If it works for you, great.

Personally, work is where I go to make money and behave in a professional, marginally detached manner. I don't come to work to make friends, hang out with people I'm attached to, etc. That's what I do outside of work.

Yeah, I'm not much fun at parties, honestly.

I'm guessing a lot of people didn't bother to read the article.

The donor was a clerk/secretary or some other low-level position where she 'toiled' away. She left the company and moved to Florida. She was back fora *VISIT* when she learned of this lady's medical condition.

The donor *offered* to donate her kidney to this lady while they had NO BUSINESS relationship at all.

After that, she decided she wanted to move back from Florida, to the same place she used to live. Weird, right? And then, who does she ask for a job? The old lady she offered an organ to. If anyone is manipulating the system here, it's this chick. 'I said I'd give you my kidney, can't you hook me up with a job?'

After that, they took on the boss/employee role. And it was the donor that wanted that relationship.

If you read the complaint from the article - she (the donor) isn't JUST upset about being fired. Apparently, she's PISSED that major surgery included things like painful recovery. I'm sorry, I know nothing about medicine, but I'm pretty sure if you cut me open and take something out - it's going to hurt.

She had the operation on Sept. 10th. She went back to work nearly one month later.
According to this website: http://www.umm.edu/transplant/kidney/qanda.htm#13

She should be able to return to work in 2-3 weeks. She took closer to four weeks and then sick time. The article also says she was yelled at for 'mistakes' at work. It also talks about allegations of special treatment. Oh - and it says she lost her OFFICE and OVERTIME. And now she is SUING for MILLIONS of dollars?

Something doesn't add up. The question is...what is more likely....

1.) The 'boss' convinced the donor to return to her old job, so she could get the kidney, then turned around and fired her - because she could.
2.) The 'donor' used the gift of her kidney to leverage a sweet-ass job.

Given the specifics of the story - I'm leaning hard towards #2.

What, stupid tag on vacation?

Fissile
>>> CitizenTed: This is why you should always run from a company that tells you
>>> "We like to think of everyone here as family".
>>> Don't walk. Run.


^THIS^ I can't even start to relate how much truth is in this statement. The above is one of the most common things you will hear from a sociopath conman.

Initially I was going to ask for your credentials and support of such a claim.

Then I found it myself.
I'll be damned..... you're right. sociopathic conman.

wonder what the lawsuit's theory of recovery will be.
maybe you can sue for *my boss is a c*nt* according to common law in NY.
you are taking a chance when you put your livelihood in the hands of random human assholes.
better to get a taco stand if you have to.

Bob16: If you ever thought for one second that your boss was a friend ( or even a human being ) I'd like to sell you a used car.

There is nothing lower than a boss. NOTHING. If you did not fark your boss over after you left your job you neglected your sacred duty to all that is just and right.

I am never your friend, I am your boss. But, I gotta tell ya, I could use a good farking over...

This relates to the "Women are smarter and nicer than men" thread...

I agree, the boss was smart and the employee was nice.

How did that work out?

maxximillian: If you are expecting anything in return for donating an organ you're doing it for the wrong reason. And there are numerous reasons why she could have been fired. Donating a kidney shouldn't make you untouchable.

From the sound of it, she didn't. The boss suddenly started going overboard right afterwards. That implies correlation--probably the boss wanted to look 'impartial' and just kind of lost it. The woman wasn't expecting anything and actually says she doesn't regret donating, she's just shocked at the boss. Quite frankly, most people would be shocked at the boss...

Who cares if the kidney didn't actually go to that boss? The only reason the fired employee ever went to the doctor in the first place was to see if she was a match for her boss. When she found out she wasn't, she went ahead with this enormously thoughtful gesture regardless, and it went to help some lucky soul in St. Louis. The fact remains though that she was willing to donate to her boss, and that alone should be enough to earn lifelong friendship.

The boss needs to have her kidney removed, even if it's done in the dealership using shop tools. What a motherfarking COONT.

maybe the boss was a happier person when ill. You know, the whole 'I'm ok being ill, and I am going to be the best person from now on' deal. Now that she has a fully-functional kidney, she doesn't feel the need to be nice anymore and dropped her false rosy outlook on life. ...and being extra-coonty to make up for lost time.

Sound's like SUCULISM firing is to good for her

/TELL ME WHAT WOULD JESUS DO!?!@?!?!?!?!?
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