Current Events > 'Stop asking people if they want a flu shot & start telling them to get one'

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says our district manager

According to him, people will respond better if you take the choice out of their hands. He even went as far as seriously suggesting not finishing a transaction until a patient agrees to a flu shot. I almost feel like someone should complain about this fucker.

Never work retail pharmacy if you can avoid it, kids. I'm just biding my time.
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Your boss sounds out of his job, but wants to get fired instead of quitting.
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Flu shots are useless.
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are you or him getting commissions on selling those phony flu shots? lol at that hard push.
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myzz7 posted...

are you or him getting commissions on selling those phony flu shots? lol at that hard push.

Someone's benefiting. Probably not hockeybub.

Flu shots are not worth the risk unless you belong to a group that getting the flu would lead to a high chance of death.

I've never gotten the shot and haven't had the flu in 10 years. Some co-workers around me take it and have gotten sick for several days immediately after taking the shot or just contracted the flu several months later anyway. Though very rare, the flu shot can actually cause paralysis. Not worth it, at least not to me.
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doomcrusader posted...

Flu shots are useless.

yep unless you just happen to get that one strain they are pretty pointless, even hospitals don't force their employees to get one
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doomcrusader posted...

Flu shots are useless.

Where were you last season where people were dropping left and right?

Nobody has to get a flu shot, but it's a winning gamble every time.

Then again, nobody actually cares for the reason behind it, until they get fucked by one.

Also, your boss sounds like a mad asshole.
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hockeybub89 posted...

He even went as far as seriously suggesting not finishing a transaction until a patient agrees to a flu shot. I almost feel like someone should complain about this fucker.

Did this guy work for Radio Shack in the 90s?

Every time I get one I get sick. Every time I don't get one I don't get sick, so I stopped getting them. I haven't had the flu in years.
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BignutzisBack posted...

yep unless you just happen to get that one strain they are pretty pointless, even hospitals don't force their employees to get one

Not true, where I work you either get it or you can sign a declination form and wear an obnoxious face mask that you have to swap out every 2 or 3 hours.
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The-Apostle posted...

Every time I get one I get sick. Every time I don't get one I don't get sick, so I stopped getting them. I haven't had the flu in years.

Ive almost always gotten it and never gotten sick.


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The-Apostle posted...

Every time I get one I get sick. Every time I don't get one I don't get sick, so I stopped getting them. I haven't had the flu in years.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure getting shots/vaccines lowers your immune system.

I've gotten sick after every single vaccine I have ever taken. Like violently sick.

It was worth it for meningitis and other bad diseases, but the flu is constantly changing.

It's a waste of time and money

Rainbow_Dashing posted...

BignutzisBack posted...

yep unless you just happen to get that one strain they are pretty pointless, even hospitals don't force their employees to get one

Not true, where I work you either get it or you can sign a declination form and wear an obnoxious face mask that you have to swap out every 2 or 3 hours.

I too work in the hospital sector, and it's not mandatory. Most people are in contact with a multitude of diseases on a daily basis and you either develop a strong immunity or you don't. A flu shot is essentially an injection that ensures you're going to get sick.

That being said, I've been vacinated against pretty much everything else. Fuck the flu.
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Milkman5 posted...

The-Apostle posted...

Every time I get one I get sick. Every time I don't get one I don't get sick, so I stopped getting them. I haven't had the flu in years.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure getting shots/vaccines lowers your immune system.

I've gotten sick after every single vaccine I have ever taken. Like violently sick.

It was worth it for meningitis and other bad diseases, but the flu is constantly changing.

It's a waste of time and money

Your immune system might just be fucked, bro.

That's really not suppose to happen. Lol
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The chance of getting the flu is small and I hate shots. I'd rather just be sick anyway, then get a shot. I don't really care that much if I get sick. Doesn't change my day to day life all that much most days

Milkman5 posted...

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure getting shots/vaccines lowers your immune system.

No. vaccines are meant to annoy your immune system, as a sort of "i'm not touching you! i'm not touching you!" taunt, just short of getting slapped, with the expectation that an actual virus actually poking at it will get backhanded promptly and soundly.

If you got sick from the shot, it means your immune system slapped the vaccine anyway.

A vaccine is a decommissioned virus and it forces your body to make antibodies so they can combat the actual virus.

Thats why you can get sick after getting a vaccine because your body thinks its under attack.
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hockeybub89 posted...

According to him, people will respond better if you take the choice out of their hands. He even went as far as seriously suggesting not finishing a transaction until a patient agrees to a flu shot. I almost feel like someone should complain about this fucker.

Being more assertive about pushing it is one thing, but outright refusing to finish a transaction is not cool.
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Milkman5 posted...

The-Apostle posted...

Every time I get one I get sick. Every time I don't get one I don't get sick, so I stopped getting them. I haven't had the flu in years.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure getting shots/vaccines lowers your immune system.

I've gotten sick after every single vaccine I have ever taken. Like violently sick.

It was worth it for meningitis and other bad diseases, but the flu is constantly changing.

It's a waste of time and money

I don't get bad reactions as such, but I agree with the general sentiment - it's a waste of time for things like the flu, but a good idea for the more serious (and more importantly, less mutation-prone) stuff.
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DarkTransient posted...

hockeybub89 posted...

According to him, people will respond better if you take the choice out of their hands. He even went as far as seriously suggesting not finishing a transaction until a patient agrees to a flu shot. I almost feel like someone should complain about this fucker.

Being more assertive about pushing it is one thing, but outright refusing to finish a transaction is not cool.

Yeah, It's ridiculous. Everyone is making sure to ask every patient, but I absolutely do not feel comfortable framing it as a request. It's inappropriate.
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If I ever get told to get one, I will immediately demand to speak to the manager and I will have words. Not loud words, threatening words, rude words or angry words... but blunt words, stern words and forceful words. My immune system is a trillion-soldier elite special forces army and a flu shot would be a ragtag group of misfits that barely passed basic training... in real life, not the movies or TV where they somehow become the heroes. They should make better flu shots from me somehow... however that whole process works.
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

My immune system is a trillion-soldier elite special forces army and a flu shot would be a ragtag group of misfits that barely passed basic training... in real life, not the movies or TV where they somehow become the heroes.

A flushot is closer to a shirtless drunken guy with a shotgun.

Questionmarktarius posted...

ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

My immune system is a trillion-soldier elite special forces army and a flu shot would be a ragtag group of misfits that barely passed basic training... in real life, not the movies or TV where they somehow become the heroes.

A flushot is closer to a shirtless drunken guy with a shotgun.

lol. I like that :P
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Milkman5 posted...

The-Apostle posted...

Every time I get one I get sick. Every time I don't get one I don't get sick, so I stopped getting them. I haven't had the flu in years.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure getting shots/vaccines lowers your immune system.

I've gotten sick after every single vaccine I have ever taken. Like violently sick.

That's normal, that's just the autism kicking in.
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Flu shots have like a 20-30% efficacy rate. My mom is an RN and even she says the flu shot is bullshit. Not because of the dreaded mercury or the autism it causes /s, but because it barely even works and usually makes people sick, to the point where I believe you're more likely to get sick and still get the flu than you are to be truly vaccinated against the flu.
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Got a flew shot 10 years ago but haven't got the flu in over 20 years.

He's way out of line, though I agree that people need to be getting vaccinated.
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Never had the flu shot, never had the flu.

Milkman5 posted...

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure getting shots/vaccines lowers your immune system.

You are wrong. They strengthen your immune system.
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Capn Circus posted...

Flu shots are not worth the risk unless you belong to a group that getting the flu would lead to a high chance of death.

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Kineth posted...

He's way out of line, though I agree that people need to be getting vaccinated.

In general sure, but not the flu vaccine. Its almost pointless.
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I can understand making it an opt out instead of an opt in. But refusing to service a customer until they get a shot is just asking for them to take their business elsewhere.
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I used to get the flu almost every year. That stopped once I started taking the flu shot.

I'll keep taking the flu shot every winter.

I guess you guys just love getting the flu. :v I get mine every year and when the whole office starts passing it around to each other I always miraculously avoid getting it.
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Typhon posted...

Never had the flu shot, never had the flu.

i call it luck. avoiding people in general isn't a surefire way to avoid the flu but it lessens the chance.
i don't think i gotten sick last year either.
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Abyssea posted...

I guess you guys just love getting the flu. :v I get mine every year and when the whole office starts passing it around to each other I always miraculously avoid getting it.

Never had the flu shot, never had the flu. So it goes both ways.
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I've always gotten them. I never get sick from them. I also work for a hospital and all employees are required to get it.
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nicklebro posted...

Kineth posted...

He's way out of line, though I agree that people need to be getting vaccinated.

In general sure, but not the flu vaccine. Its almost pointless.

You're welcome to your opinion, but I'm in one of the groups with a lowered immune system so I don't like that y'all are putting this bullshit out there. I don't want y'all's fucking germs either.
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Kineth posted...

nicklebro posted...

Kineth posted...

He's way out of line, though I agree that people need to be getting vaccinated.

In general sure, but not the flu vaccine. Its almost pointless.

You're welcome to your opinion, but I'm in one of the groups with a lowered immune system so I don't like that y'all are putting this bullshit out there. I don't want y'all's fucking germs either.

People like you are the reason its not totally pointless.
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Abyssea posted...

I guess you guys just love getting the flu. :v I get mine every year and when the whole office starts passing it around to each other I always miraculously avoid getting it.

You realize that people getting sick isn't necessarily THE flu
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If someone asks me to get something I'll say no. If someone tells me to get something I'll say no and be aggressive.
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"let's give you a flu shot. It'll stop last years flu, but who knows how much the virus has evolved since then"
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my personal experience trumps decades of virology and immunology research
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