M.lynch managing director, will he get fired?

[Anonymous]

What I guarantee happened:

Mom usually gets the smoothie for the kid and makes sure to clarify there’s a peanut allergy so there’s no risk of cross contamination or ingredients with peanuts.

Dad gets smoothie for kid for the first time, and being a guy who probably never really handled the kid stuff (because he was too busy with his Big Boy Job), never even thought to mention the allergy. Kid just says he wants the PNut smoothie without peanut butter, dad repeats without even thinking, because that’s what most dads would do.

Moral of the story: dudes, quit being idiots and start actually thinking through how your actions and choices impact your kids. This wouldn’t have happened with a mom.

[Anonymous]

How hard is it to make a smoothie?

If your kid has an allergy that is that severe, then why take the risk?

My kid has a shellfish allergy so, we don't go to seafood restaurants as a general rule.

If we are in a restaurant that also serves shellfish, we limit what we order off of the menu.

Is said allergen cooked in the same oil as the other, not allergenic food? Answer: Yes = don't order. Answer: Don't know? = don't order, Answer: no. = Then maybe order...why risk that a hurried waiter or kid waiter, cares enough to ask, observe or enforce. Because my DCs life is my responsibility, who else cares as much as I do, I have the epi-pen ready just in case.

Hope for best prepare for the worst, but my first instinct wouldn't be to beat up the teenager who made the food item.

I would feel shame as a parent and concern for my kid.

This guy clearly felt heavy-duty guilt, he almost killed his kid, because he's the one who found it easier to go to the store and buy a smoothie, rather than make one at home, or have his kid make his own smoothie at home.

It's a smoothie, no one needs a store-bought smoothie.

Learn to manage your anger people, and if you can't squash it then directing it inward, and beating yourself up, is way better than this garbage.

So tired of all of these middle-aged, old people getting caught on cell cameras acting like idiots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, wait -- three of the four performance smoothies have peanuts in them. He ordered the one that has "P-Nut" in the title for his son, but asked for no peanuts ... and his son has an anaphylactic peanut allergy severe enough to carry an EpiPen?

And he's mad at a bunch of teenage girls?

And people trust this guy to make good judgments with their money? Merrill Lynch had to fire him.

The first ingredient isn't peanut butter in all four. Those are mostly fruit smoothies.

Right. Nobody said it did. Way to damn the dude with faint praise there, PP.

My point is that the names hardly matter. Pnut isn't how you spell peanut. They probably couldn't call it that because peanuts aren't the first ingredient. Arguing he should have expected peanut butter because it has Pnut in the name is silly. None of the names have any correlation to the actual ingredients.

Are you kidding? Because it’s spelled differently it means there are no actual peanuts? This guy is an absolute idiot and horrible dad. You don’t order a smoothie with the name P-Nut in it for your son with a deadly allergy. If my son had a allergy like that I would not step foot in the store in the first place. Also, isn’t the son old enough to know this?

[Anonymous]

Never put your life or your career in the hands of someone making $10 an hour. Facts.

If this money manager hasn't figured this out by now, then of course he should be fired.

#facts#real.facts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How hard is it to make a smoothie?

If your kid has an allergy that is that severe, then why take the risk?

My kid has a shellfish allergy so, we don't go to seafood restaurants as a general rule.

If we are in a restaurant that also serves shellfish, we limit what we order off of the menu.

Is said allergen cooked in the same oil as the other, not allergenic food? Answer: Yes = don't order. Answer: Don't know? = don't order, Answer: no. = Then maybe order...why risk that a hurried waiter or kid waiter, cares enough to ask, observe or enforce. Because my DCs life is my responsibility, who else cares as much as I do, I have the epi-pen ready just in case.

Hope for best prepare for the worst, but my first instinct wouldn't be to beat up the teenager who made the food item.

I would feel shame as a parent and concern for my kid.

This guy clearly felt heavy-duty guilt, he almost killed his kid, because he's the one who found it easier to go to the store and buy a smoothie, rather than make one at home, or have his kid make his own smoothie at home.

It's a smoothie, no one needs a store-bought smoothie.

Learn to manage your anger people, and if you can't squash it then directing it inward, and beating yourself up, is way better than this garbage.

So tired of all of these middle-aged, old people getting caught on cell cameras acting like idiots.

You think the wait staff knows what cooking oil is shared and isn't? What happens when a chef makes a mistake cooking shellfish in the wrong pan or oil? There is always a small non-zero risk eating out. Why do you take it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How hard is it to make a smoothie?

If your kid has an allergy that is that severe, then why take the risk?

My kid has a shellfish allergy so, we don't go to seafood restaurants as a general rule.

If we are in a restaurant that also serves shellfish, we limit what we order off of the menu.

Is said allergen cooked in the same oil as the other, not allergenic food? Answer: Yes = don't order. Answer: Don't know? = don't order, Answer: no. = Then maybe order...why risk that a hurried waiter or kid waiter, cares enough to ask, observe or enforce. Because my DCs life is my responsibility, who else cares as much as I do, I have the epi-pen ready just in case.

Hope for best prepare for the worst, but my first instinct wouldn't be to beat up the teenager who made the food item.

I would feel shame as a parent and concern for my kid.

This guy clearly felt heavy-duty guilt, he almost killed his kid, because he's the one who found it easier to go to the store and buy a smoothie, rather than make one at home, or have his kid make his own smoothie at home.

It's a smoothie, no one needs a store-bought smoothie.

Learn to manage your anger people, and if you can't squash it then directing it inward, and beating yourself up, is way better than this garbage.

So tired of all of these middle-aged, old people getting caught on cell cameras acting like idiots.

You think the wait staff knows what cooking oil is shared and isn't? What happens when a chef makes a mistake cooking shellfish in the wrong pan or oil? There is always a small non-zero risk eating out. Why do you take it?

See point 3. We eat out when we travel, and at other times, and if we do we carry the epi-pen. This is my responsibility and one day it will be my DCs. It would be nice if people were perfect, but they aren't so I am prepared for accidental ingestion. I assume the risk when we eat out. What is the point of getting mad at some stranger whose primary concern isn't me and mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How hard is it to make a smoothie?

If your kid has an allergy that is that severe, then why take the risk?

My kid has a shellfish allergy so, we don't go to seafood restaurants as a general rule.

If we are in a restaurant that also serves shellfish, we limit what we order off of the menu.

Is said allergen cooked in the same oil as the other, not allergenic food? Answer: Yes = don't order. Answer: Don't know? = don't order, Answer: no. = Then maybe order...why risk that a hurried waiter or kid waiter, cares enough to ask, observe or enforce. Because my DCs life is my responsibility, who else cares as much as I do, I have the epi-pen ready just in case.

Hope for best prepare for the worst, but my first instinct wouldn't be to beat up the teenager who made the food item.

I would feel shame as a parent and concern for my kid.

This guy clearly felt heavy-duty guilt, he almost killed his kid, because he's the one who found it easier to go to the store and buy a smoothie, rather than make one at home, or have his kid make his own smoothie at home.

It's a smoothie, no one needs a store-bought smoothie.

Learn to manage your anger people, and if you can't squash it then directing it inward, and beating yourself up, is way better than this garbage.

So tired of all of these middle-aged, old people getting caught on cell cameras acting like idiots.

You think the wait staff knows what cooking oil is shared and isn't? What happens when a chef makes a mistake cooking shellfish in the wrong pan or oil? There is always a small non-zero risk eating out. Why do you take it?

See point 3. We eat out when we travel, and at other times, and if we do we carry the epi-pen. This is my responsibility and one day it will be my DCs. It would be nice if people were perfect, but they aren't so I am prepared for accidental ingestion. I assume the risk when we eat out. What is the point of getting mad at some stranger whose primary concern isn't me and mine.

His son had an EpiPen as well. I don't see the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How hard is it to make a smoothie?

If your kid has an allergy that is that severe, then why take the risk?

My kid has a shellfish allergy so, we don't go to seafood restaurants as a general rule.

If we are in a restaurant that also serves shellfish, we limit what we order off of the menu.

Is said allergen cooked in the same oil as the other, not allergenic food? Answer: Yes = don't order. Answer: Don't know? = don't order, Answer: no. = Then maybe order...why risk that a hurried waiter or kid waiter, cares enough to ask, observe or enforce. Because my DCs life is my responsibility, who else cares as much as I do, I have the epi-pen ready just in case.

Hope for best prepare for the worst, but my first instinct wouldn't be to beat up the teenager who made the food item.

I would feel shame as a parent and concern for my kid.

This guy clearly felt heavy-duty guilt, he almost killed his kid, because he's the one who found it easier to go to the store and buy a smoothie, rather than make one at home, or have his kid make his own smoothie at home.

It's a smoothie, no one needs a store-bought smoothie.

Learn to manage your anger people, and if you can't squash it then directing it inward, and beating yourself up, is way better than this garbage.

So tired of all of these middle-aged, old people getting caught on cell cameras acting like idiots.

You think the wait staff knows what cooking oil is shared and isn't? What happens when a chef makes a mistake cooking shellfish in the wrong pan or oil? There is always a small non-zero risk eating out. Why do you take it?

See point 3. We eat out when we travel, and at other times, and if we do we carry the epi-pen. This is my responsibility and one day it will be my DCs. It would be nice if people were perfect, but they aren't so I am prepared for accidental ingestion. I assume the risk when we eat out. What is the point of getting mad at some stranger whose primary concern isn't me and mine.

His son had an EpiPen as well. I don't see the difference.

The difference is that mistakes happen, and you can't just assume that no allergen means no allergen. Shellfish allergies tend to be one of the most severe and they are ones that you don't outgrow, and you can't become desensitized to, and they can crop up, develop at any time for anyone. Meaning one day you can eat shrimp and then the next you can have an anaphylactic reaction.

So you have to learn to live with it, and only an idiot would think the proper reaction to accidental ingestion is to beat someone up. Even my DC who is in elementary school wouldn't wander into a Robeks and order a peanut drink, and then say but wait, hold the peanuts.

Plus anyone with a severe food allergy has two epi-pens because the protocol is first shot, call an ambulance, second shot while waiting for the ambulance. So having to go to administer the shot and then go to the hospital via ambulance isn't exactly an unusual thing, it is protocol. They were just following protocol unless they didn't administer 2 pens, and then well that's on them now, isn't it? If they have the time and money to go to Robek's then they have the time and money to have at least two epi-pens.

If this kids allergy is that severe again you shouldn't be ordering a peanut butter smoothie in a Robek's, if no reaction up until this point they were just playing with a loaded gun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wealth managers are the dumbest of the dumb people in finance

+1

They’re mostly meatheads who couldn’t handle harder courses of study so they shuffle money from one pot to another and are ridiculously well compensated for doing so.

I think this guys is the scum of the world but I appreciate your savvy insights into wealth management. I’m an advisor without a MBA from Harvard or a silt
Overpriced degree. I went to a small private college but and made 1.4M last year as a 36yo. I guess I may not be as intelligent as you but I’m smart enough to have my family and kids set for life.

Do I deserve to make this money, heck no, the industry is lucrative (as are many other industry’s). Do I work very hard and have a load of stress and anxiety, you bet. All my friends in more prestigious “banking jobs” are envious of the time I’m able to devote to my family and would give their left arm to switch jobs. Glad you see it once sided.

Stay on topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How hard is it to make a smoothie?

If your kid has an allergy that is that severe, then why take the risk?

My kid has a shellfish allergy so, we don't go to seafood restaurants as a general rule.

If we are in a restaurant that also serves shellfish, we limit what we order off of the menu.

Is said allergen cooked in the same oil as the other, not allergenic food? Answer: Yes = don't order. Answer: Don't know? = don't order, Answer: no. = Then maybe order...why risk that a hurried waiter or kid waiter, cares enough to ask, observe or enforce. Because my DCs life is my responsibility, who else cares as much as I do, I have the epi-pen ready just in case.

Hope for best prepare for the worst, but my first instinct wouldn't be to beat up the teenager who made the food item.

I would feel shame as a parent and concern for my kid.

This guy clearly felt heavy-duty guilt, he almost killed his kid, because he's the one who found it easier to go to the store and buy a smoothie, rather than make one at home, or have his kid make his own smoothie at home.

It's a smoothie, no one needs a store-bought smoothie.

Learn to manage your anger people, and if you can't squash it then directing it inward, and beating yourself up, is way better than this garbage.

So tired of all of these middle-aged, old people getting caught on cell cameras acting like idiots.

You think the wait staff knows what cooking oil is shared and isn't? What happens when a chef makes a mistake cooking shellfish in the wrong pan or oil? There is always a small non-zero risk eating out. Why do you take it?

See point 3. We eat out when we travel, and at other times, and if we do we carry the epi-pen. This is my responsibility and one day it will be my DCs. It would be nice if people were perfect, but they aren't so I am prepared for accidental ingestion. I assume the risk when we eat out. What is the point of getting mad at some stranger whose primary concern isn't me and mine.

His son had an EpiPen as well. I don't see the difference.

The difference is that mistakes happen, and you can't just assume that no allergen means no allergen. Shellfish allergies tend to be one of the most severe and they are ones that you don't outgrow, and you can't become desensitized to, and they can crop up, develop at any time for anyone. Meaning one day you can eat shrimp and then the next you can have an anaphylactic reaction.

So you have to learn to live with it, and only an idiot would think the proper reaction to accidental ingestion is to beat someone up. Even my DC who is in elementary school wouldn't wander into a Robeks and order a peanut drink, and then say but wait, hold the peanuts.

Plus anyone with a severe food allergy has two epi-pens because the protocol is first shot, call an ambulance, second shot while waiting for the ambulance. So having to go to administer the shot and then go to the hospital via ambulance isn't exactly an unusual thing, it is protocol. They were just following protocol unless they didn't administer 2 pens, and then well that's on them now, isn't it? If they have the time and money to go to Robek's then they have the time and money to have at least two epi-pens.

If this kids allergy is that severe again you shouldn't be ordering a peanut butter smoothie in a Robek's, if no reaction up until this point they were just playing with a loaded gun.

He ordered without peanut butter. Regardless, you can't control cross contamination in any restaurant. Visiting any food establishment is playing with a loaded gun if you have foo allergies. Even if it's your first, second, or third trip. Claiming that you have "special precautions" that prevent these accidents, like limiting what you order from the menu, is not actually controlling for any of the risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, wait -- three of the four performance smoothies have peanuts in them. He ordered the one that has "P-Nut" in the title for his son, but asked for no peanuts ... and his son has an anaphylactic peanut allergy severe enough to carry an EpiPen?

And he's mad at a bunch of teenage girls?

And people trust this guy to make good judgments with their money? Merrill Lynch had to fire him.

The first ingredient isn't peanut butter in all four. Those are mostly fruit smoothies.

Right. Nobody said it did. Way to damn the dude with faint praise there, PP.

My point is that the names hardly matter. Pnut isn't how you spell peanut. They probably couldn't call it that because peanuts aren't the first ingredient. Arguing he should have expected peanut butter because it has Pnut in the name is silly. None of the names have any correlation to the actual ingredients.

Wait -- what did you think P-NUT is referencing, given the context? A "p-nut" brain smoothie?

JFC. Words mean things, and a peanut allergy does not check the ingredients list, say "wellll ... it's not the first ingredient, so I have to let it go this time."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I guarantee happened:

Mom usually gets the smoothie for the kid and makes sure to clarify there’s a peanut allergy so there’s no risk of cross contamination or ingredients with peanuts.

Dad gets smoothie for kid for the first time, and being a guy who probably never really handled the kid stuff (because he was too busy with his Big Boy Job), never even thought to mention the allergy. Kid just says he wants the PNut smoothie without peanut butter, dad repeats without even thinking, because that’s what most dads would do.

Moral of the story: dudes, quit being idiots and start actually thinking through how your actions and choices impact your kids. This wouldn’t have happened with a mom.

Yep

[Anonymous]

The kid is 17 and should also know better than to order a P-Nut smoothie without double checking and alerting the staff of his severe allergy. Btw, that severe of an allergy should not go to smoothie stores. Cross contamination is always a possibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, wait -- three of the four performance smoothies have peanuts in them. He ordered the one that has "P-Nut" in the title for his son, but asked for no peanuts ... and his son has an anaphylactic peanut allergy severe enough to carry an EpiPen?

And he's mad at a bunch of teenage girls?

And people trust this guy to make good judgments with their money? Merrill Lynch had to fire him.

The first ingredient isn't peanut butter in all four. Those are mostly fruit smoothies.

Right. Nobody said it did. Way to damn the dude with faint praise there, PP.

My point is that the names hardly matter. Pnut isn't how you spell peanut. They probably couldn't call it that because peanuts aren't the first ingredient. Arguing he should have expected peanut butter because it has Pnut in the name is silly. None of the names have any correlation to the actual ingredients.

Wait -- what did you think P-NUT is referencing, given the context? A "p-nut" brain smoothie?

JFC. Words mean things, and a peanut allergy does not check the ingredients list, say "wellll ... it's not the first ingredient, so I have to let it go this time."

Words have almost no meaning when it comes to food. Why do you think there's regulations? If I had an allergy to pineapple or bananas, should I believe a peanut butter smoothie is fruit free? It's not in the name. That's misleading according to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How hard is it to make a smoothie?

If your kid has an allergy that is that severe, then why take the risk?

My kid has a shellfish allergy so, we don't go to seafood restaurants as a general rule.

If we are in a restaurant that also serves shellfish, we limit what we order off of the menu.

Is said allergen cooked in the same oil as the other, not allergenic food? Answer: Yes = don't order. Answer: Don't know? = don't order, Answer: no. = Then maybe order...why risk that a hurried waiter or kid waiter, cares enough to ask, observe or enforce. Because my DCs life is my responsibility, who else cares as much as I do, I have the epi-pen ready just in case.

Hope for best prepare for the worst, but my first instinct wouldn't be to beat up the teenager who made the food item.

I would feel shame as a parent and concern for my kid.

This guy clearly felt heavy-duty guilt, he almost killed his kid, because he's the one who found it easier to go to the store and buy a smoothie, rather than make one at home, or have his kid make his own smoothie at home.

It's a smoothie, no one needs a store-bought smoothie.

Learn to manage your anger people, and if you can't squash it then directing it inward, and beating yourself up, is way better than this garbage.

So tired of all of these middle-aged, old people getting caught on cell cameras acting like idiots.

You think the wait staff knows what cooking oil is shared and isn't? What happens when a chef makes a mistake cooking shellfish in the wrong pan or oil? There is always a small non-zero risk eating out. Why do you take it?

See point 3. We eat out when we travel, and at other times, and if we do we carry the epi-pen. This is my responsibility and one day it will be my DCs. It would be nice if people were perfect, but they aren't so I am prepared for accidental ingestion. I assume the risk when we eat out. What is the point of getting mad at some stranger whose primary concern isn't me and mine.

His son had an EpiPen as well. I don't see the difference.

The difference is that mistakes happen, and you can't just assume that no allergen means no allergen. Shellfish allergies tend to be one of the most severe and they are ones that you don't outgrow, and you can't become desensitized to, and they can crop up, develop at any time for anyone. Meaning one day you can eat shrimp and then the next you can have an anaphylactic reaction.

So you have to learn to live with it, and only an idiot would think the proper reaction to accidental ingestion is to beat someone up. Even my DC who is in elementary school wouldn't wander into a Robeks and order a peanut drink, and then say but wait, hold the peanuts.

Plus anyone with a severe food allergy has two epi-pens because the protocol is first shot, call an ambulance, second shot while waiting for the ambulance. So having to go to administer the shot and then go to the hospital via ambulance isn't exactly an unusual thing, it is protocol. They were just following protocol unless they didn't administer 2 pens, and then well that's on them now, isn't it? If they have the time and money to go to Robek's then they have the time and money to have at least two epi-pens.

If this kids allergy is that severe again you shouldn't be ordering a peanut butter smoothie in a Robek's, if no reaction up until this point they were just playing with a loaded gun.

He ordered without peanut butter. Regardless, you can't control cross contamination in any restaurant. Visiting any food establishment is playing with a loaded gun if you have foo allergies. Even if it's your first, second, or third trip. Claiming that you have "special precautions" that prevent these accidents, like limiting what you order from the menu, is not actually controlling for any of the risk.

Um yes that is the entire point. You can’t control food prepared for someone else, heck recalls happen every day in prepared and packaged food products so the proper course of action is to be prepared and accept that it is fairly probable that sooner or later you will accidentally ingest something and rage at the preparer is stupid.

This guy lost his job because he is a moron. His kid had a bad reaction because he has a bad allergy. No point in blaming some kid in a fast food restaurant. They took a risk and this time it didn’t go thrived way. Assume risk accept consequences.