Do you ever wonder how your employer have high income jobs but are dumber than rocks?!

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Anonymous wrote:I had two very high powered and high profile parents who were beyond worthless in even a minor emergency. I came to work one morning and they were both in near hysterics - the toddler had locked himself in the bathroom and couldn't get out. They tried to explain to him how to do it - he couldn't. When I got there the father was filthy from trying to climb through the bathroom window and they were dialing 911. Both were screaming. The bathroom door opened out and I told them to just pop off the hinges. They looked at me like I told them to fly to Mars so I got a butter knife and popped off the hinges and took down the door. It took all of 60 seconds.

They saw the same hinges that I did. It was their house! They acted like I was some household genius!!

This is not stupidity, it’s ignorance. I know a lot of people who outsource the most basic DIY because that’s what their parents did. I don’t think they’re stupid, they were just never exposed to basic home repair and don’t think it’s important to ever learn.

No, that’s stupidity AND ignorance.

No, its not. How much DIY can you do? We do a lot but there are things we will not like the roof and siding?

It was NOT ignorance and was in fact stupidity. I myself am a single woman that has to outsource home repairs etc and just because someone grew up privileged does not mean it’s ok to not use your brain for simple problem solving. Common sense tells you that if something is LOCKED figure out the other ways to open it. Hence removing hinges to get your own child that could turn on water at any second and drown themselves VS disturbing law enforcement.

My mb was running around the house screaming the f word because the bathroom door knob fell off on the inside while the door was shut. She started calling her husband (who doesn’t even know to check watt compatibility when screwing in bulbs, & asked me how to boil hot dogs) like he would do something about it. I showed her how to use a butter knife to push the actual lock back inside the door to open it. She has told most of her family how brilliant I am. She constantly talks about how much smarter than her I am when it comes to using common sense when doing things to manage her kids. I think they secretly enjoy chaos, leaky sippy cups, dark rooms and locked doors. But MB’s last boss called her an imbecile so I’m sure this reaches beyond home.

The last paragraph really made me chuckle

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I had a doctor MB who was so paranoid about baby eating enough (he had trouble with reflux the first few months) that she put peanut butter in his mouth constantly while feeding so he would drink more. She would force feed him and weigh him every day even though he had been gaining weight normally and at a normal weight for months. Refused to believe me when the force feeding led to more vomiting and reflux. I had to leave that job because I couldn’t bring myself to force feed that baby who had never learned to eat when he was hungry/stop eating when he was full and as he got older the power struggles to try at get home to the day’s calorie goals broke my heart.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a doctor MB who was so paranoid about baby eating enough (he had trouble with reflux the first few months) that she put peanut butter in his mouth constantly while feeding so he would drink more. She would force feed him and weigh him every day even though he had been gaining weight normally and at a normal weight for months. Refused to believe me when the force feeding led to more vomiting and reflux. I had to leave that job because I couldn’t bring myself to force feed that baby who had never learned to eat when he was hungry/stop eating when he was full and as he got older the power struggles to try at get home to the day’s calorie goals broke my heart.

Heart wrenching. This borders on child abuse. Good that you got away from that sick physician.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a doctor MB who was so paranoid about baby eating enough (he had trouble with reflux the first few months) that she put peanut butter in his mouth constantly while feeding so he would drink more. She would force feed him and weigh him every day even though he had been gaining weight normally and at a normal weight for months. Refused to believe me when the force feeding led to more vomiting and reflux. I had to leave that job because I couldn’t bring myself to force feed that baby who had never learned to eat when he was hungry/stop eating when he was full and as he got older the power struggles to try at get home to the day’s calorie goals broke my heart.

I had a similar problem with a parent of year-old twins who had spent several months in NICU. Because she was so paranoid about bringing them up to weight, she was forcefeeding formula, soft foods, and when they vomited, whatever came up. The poor kids were incapable of knowing when they were full, and neither wanted to go in the kitchen to eat.