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WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
SeaWoodStage:
Faye was incredibly stupid and needs to be called on it, but surely some blame has to go to Jim here. Whatever the legal situation, morally you don't get to just let your teenage daughter run around imposing herself on other people. Has he ever even visited the shop?
BlueFatima:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 07 Aug 2018, 23:20 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 07 Aug 2018, 22:39 ---Jim's business involves industrial mixers that can break an arm - a boobooed fingernail isn't going to look all that impressive to him.
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It's different when it's your kid. My wife was training to be a PA and had done an ER tour, seeing the working end of several bloody messes. When our 3 year old daughter bonked her head and it was bleeding, I held her for a bit to calm her before bandaging it up. My wife came home and saw the blood on the shoulder of my shirt after I'd told her about it, and she nearly puked.
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I assume your daughter is your first? I promise you that by the time she's Sam's age, most things upsetting, gross and horrifying will have desensitized you and your wife. If you have more kids or spend time around a number of her friends (which can happen more when you have an only), all the more so. I remember freaking out and taking my kid to the hospital a black eye at 2 (it was scary swelling up so fast). Now, when she injures herself like that, it's like "Again?" And it's a list of check the injury, ice, ibuprofen, etc... Meanwhile, I get a few more grey hairs. :lol:
My kiddo's 9, and I can't imagine suing anyone over her losing a nail. I may not trust her to alone again with that person at her current age, but if she was a young teenager I may actually chalk it more up as a life lesson than blame the adult in charge. Kids cannot be bubble wrapped forever. I've nicked myself with Dremel before, and I managed to slice off the tip of my index finger through the nail twice with an Xacto knife. Those kinds are injuries happen all the time.
Sam, however, does have impulse issues a little greater than other kids her age. I do agree with everyone that Faye should never have left her alone. She should have asked Bubbles to watch Sam until she was done in the bathroom. Close supervision is a given with any beginners who use power tools (even sewing machines) for the first time. Sam also probably should have had gloves on (though I find them cumbersome for something as little as a Dremel).
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: oeoek on 08 Aug 2018, 00:41 ---Losing a fingernail in a workshop is pretty much part of the basic training program, I would say.
Weather it is by hitting yourself with a hammer, or trying something like trimming your nails on a grinder does not matter much. Some things you learn from what other tell you, and some things you just need to experience. Fingernails grow back, split fingertips heal, splinters can be dug out. Just don't lose an eye!
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Yeah, but Sam still shouldn't be there. I don't know how old she is, but I can't imagine she's 15. She shouldn't have been left to operate a piece of equipment unsupervised.
rtmq0227:
I'm frankly surprised how many people are freaking out that Faye took her eyes off of Sam for a second. A) She's proven herself a capable worker when handling dangerous tools. B) It is unreasonable to assume that an apprentice should be under 100% supervision at all times while working. C) We now know that Sam made a conscious choice to do a dumb thing in a manner that Faye hasn't seen before (i.e. the willingness to knowingly put her body at risk, not just accidentally)
I think back to shop class, and working in my parents shop, and Appalachia Service Project (think Habitat for Humanity with church kids), etc. and how many times I was unsupervised with power tools. I was also an accident-prone kid. I once severed the tendon in my thumb with a Leatherman knife because I was trying to cut cable ties with it, a knife my grandfather had given me, and it slipped. My parents never blamed anyone but me for the damage (and rightly so). I had handled knives before, even did a report on knife safety, so it was a conscious level of stupidity, similar to Sam trying to trim her nails with a dremel.
Nails grow back, Jim may freak out a little and it'll cause drama, but it's not enough to shut a company down. Maaaaybe small claims court for the medical costs of a box of band-aides, and a small consideration for emotional trauma, if he really wanted to be a hard-ass about it. I can't even imagine a way (short of infection) for Sam to lose a finger with a grinding bit. It would take a while to abrade your finger off. Plus, Sam has clearly learned that she is, in fact, destructible. I'd say that a grounding from the shop for a while (I like the extension due to considering lying to her dad) coming from both sides (Faye and Jim) should do enough for the lesson to sink in.
Stoutfellow:
It occurs to me to wonder why Faye didn't ask Bubbles to keep an eye on Sam while she took her bathroom break. Bubbles can't have been too far away. (Granted, she may have been otherwise occupied.)
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