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By Anonymous - 21/10/2009 02:15 - United States

Today, I decided to take a personal day from class and e-mailed all of my professors saying I had flu symptoms. While standing in line at Starbucks later, someone behind me said, "Glad you're feeling better. Hope you can attend class tomorrow, we'll discuss lying." It was my Ethics professor. FML
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alorra 0

isn't this a very obvious YDI?

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Witchcraft_fml 4

Oh, the irony. Your ethics must be taking a sick day, too. *cough* *sneeze* Start sniffling and tell him that a Pumpkin Spice Latte really clears your congestion. :] OR, punch him in the face and run.

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youthink_fml 0

stupid ****. for starbucks? really?

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zootsuit 0

that's terrible! you totally deserved it! =( sucks to be the professor though, i'd hate knowing that people just want to blow off my class (after i dedicated my life to teaching, and after they actually PAID for the class...) nothing against taking a personal day, but that's what you should have said instead of lying about the flu.

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PhillyFox 0

Yeah. Once in a while we do need personal days from class, especially midsemester. But you shouldn't have lied about it, and you deserved to be called out on it.

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perdix 29

You shoulda sneezed in the son-fo-a-bitch's face and said, "Oh, yeah, it might be swine." During at least some of the course of the flu, you are not so sick that you are bedridden. You should have said, "I have some symptoms and I didn't want to spread it. . . until now." Here's a tip for Ethics class: In all moral systems from Kant's Categorical Imperative to Mill's Utilitarianism, the answer to the question, "Do these pants make my butt look fat?" is ALWAYS "No."

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haweb 0

Yeh, the OP is (most likely) paying for the class, but 1) lying about it is not the way to go. 2) Teachers find it disrespectful when you willingly skip class. And believe it or not, some of them want you to do well. I had some classes where one class period was a lot of information that I really needed to know. If the teacher went over details for a project or notes, or whatever, then the OP has to get those from some where to be caught up in the class, unless the OP just doesn't care. In this case, the teacher feels you're wasting their time. Doesn't matter that you're in a class of more than one person, they're trying to give you an education and you're not in class so they can do that.

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Haitch 0

Yeah, this one's your fault. You're in college. If you want to skip, ball up and just do it, don't fake your way around with excuses, for reasons you discovered.

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Brave_Sir_Robin 4

Did you at least offer to make up the class somehow? By "make up" I mean go back to his/her place and do some "extra credit" work, if you know what I mean.

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Brave_Sir_Robin 4

I was actually talking about doing some extra credit assignments and/or studying. You people are sick =) #46 - That would be rather ironic, huh?

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Brave_Sir_Robin 4

Okay, fine. I'll take you out to a nice seafood dinner and never call you again afterward. Deal?

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perdix 29

"Liking boning up on the principles of Hedonism?" Great choice of words, Mercy! The first principle of hedonism IS boning.

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whatsisface 0

that wouldn't make any sense 'cuz if you were paralyzed you wouldn't be able to e-mail your professors and it would be even weirder to be caught at starbucks.

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theblazian 0

Thats happened to me before.....luckily the only thing I like from Starbucks are their teas with honey so it was pretty easy to pull it off.

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52fremont 0

For all he knew, you could have been grabbing some coffee so you could go home and study. I had H1N1 so when I was home sick, I really did study so it's not that unbelievable. *shrug*

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