Why do people think it's okay to leave religious leaflets in my office?

[OUDoc]

Because it really annoys me. :mad:

[47straight]

Sorry, I thought you might like to go to church with me.

[royalfan5]

Maybe they are making a comment on your doctoring ability?






J/k

[OklahomaTuba]

What's wrong with it?

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Uhmm, religion at work is gauche. Not appropriate at work and especially not appropriate at a private business without permission. IMO.

[OUDoc]

It's my office, not theirs. Would you like atheist leaflets in your office? (And I'm not atheist, I'm Catholic, but that's not the point.) No one would put up with any other business/service/whatever constantly leaving promotional material in someone else's office.

[47straight]

It's my office, not theirs. Would you like atheist leaflets in your office? (And I'm not atheist, I'm Catholic, but that's not the point.) No one would put up with any other business/service/whatever constantly leaving promotional material in someone else's office.


Like promotional materials for pharmaceuticals? :D


I'm jus sayin the Jehovah's Witnessess should give you a kickback.

[OUDoc]

Like promotional materials for pharmaceuticals? :D
True, but they usually ask. I get just as upset when they don't ask me first, and it goes in the trash just like the religious materials.



I'm jus sayin the Jehovah's Witnessess should give you a kickback.
They're the worst offenders. Definitely.

[Okla-homey]

I hear Doc was given a blue golf bag emblazoned with "Viagra" by the fine pharm. co. who manufactures that product.

[OUDoc]

I hear Doc was given a blue golf bag emblazoned with "Viagra" by the fine pharm. co. who manufactures that product.
I wish. Politicians made it so I can get a free pen and a lunch, but no cool golf bags.

[crawfish]

It doesn't surprise me. There's always a lot of praying going on in your waiting room. ;)

[12]

Maybe if you remove Hustler from your magazine rack, they will stop.

[SOONER STEAKER]

Maybe the insignia on your door as they have mistaken it for a loaf of bread and some fish?

[Okieflyer]

Why would that bother you? It amazing what bothers people. Just pick it up and throw it away and just think to yourself that your taking a few more out of circulation and saving someone from getting "religion".

[OUDoc]

When it happens over and over again, it gets old. And it's rude, IMO, to leave it. What if some of my patients of a differing religion get offended?

[C&CDean]

Perhaps you should just limit your practice to heathens.

[OU Adonis]

Godless heathen!!!!!!!!!#@!#$%

[Okieflyer]

When it happens over and over again, it gets old.

I can understand when it's something you don't agree with and it's happening all the time. Yes it might get old.


And it's rude, IMO, to leave it.

It's not rude if you understand why they do it.


What if some of my patients of a differing religion get offended?

This one means nothing to me. If you get in someones face and won't leave them alone, that's one thing. I disagree with muslims, JW's, Mormans and others, but because I see someone wearing a head scarf, of see a watchtower or the Book of morman doesn't mean I should be, or do, get offended. Those people who get offended by seeing this are just intolerant of anything other than their religion. I say to those people..."get over it."

[yermom]

I say to those people..."get over it."

and then they find another doctor ;)

if the Watchtower is out there it looks like OUDoc has left it out there, that's not cool

i wouldn't want someone leaving trash out there that i had to throw away either

[soonerbrat]

People leave that stuff laying around here, too...i always throw it away.

I saw one pamphlet somewhere that talked about how Catholics are the devil...

[bri]

Yeah, I had a feeling this wasn't going to end well.

WHY DO YOU HATE THE BABY JESUS?!? WHY DO YOU HATE GOD?!?! HOW DARE YOU TRY AND HAVE SOME SAY OVER WHAT IS IN YOUR WAITING ROOM?!!?!1

[Okieflyer]

Yes bri you can neg me all you want for being a "condesending Christian". But the truth is it doesn't have anything to do with being a Christian. It has to do with being a person who gets really tired of hearing how winey people get "offended" at everything. Grow up and get over it. Apparently your one who let's those things offend you or you wouldn't have negged me!:D

[Hamhock]

I saw one pamphlet somewhere that talked about how Catholics are the devil...


i had permission for that one.

[soonerscuba]

If you find religion from a pamphlet in a waiting room, you need a different kind of doctor.

[Boarder]

I can understand when it's something you don't agree with and it's happening all the time. Yes it might get old.



It's not rude if you understand why they do it.



This one means nothing to me. If you get in someones face and won't leave them alone, that's one thing. I disagree with muslims, JW's, Mormans and others, but because I see someone wearing a head scarf, of see a watchtower or the Book of morman doesn't mean I should be, or do, get offended. Those people who get offended by seeing this are just intolerant of anything other than their religion. I say to those people..."get over it."
When you have a business you have to watch for your customers being offended. I can't put up a big "osu SUCKS" banner in the shop even though I'd really like to. Aggy has money and likes to bling thier truck, too.

All Doc said is that it's annoying. He also said the pharmaceutical ads left without permission are annoying. People leaving stuff around your office is annoying. I agree. No matter what it is. This has nothing to do with if it's religious stuff or not. He'd be just as annoyed if someone left a Playboy or a bunch of free admission to Sugars cards lying around. Although he'd probably stash them instead of throwing away.

[sooner_born_1960]

If you had taken the time to open the pamphlet, you see that I left my specimen smeared to the pages. You forgot to give me a cup.

[OUDoc]

Can I place fliers for my practice in the various churches around the city? Just leave them lying around?

[Boarder]

The whole thing rests on the asking permission part. Just doing it without permission is rude and....annoying.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Like promotional materials for pharmaceuticals? :D


I'm jus sayin the Jehovah's Witnessess should give you a kickback.

Just like auto dealerships. I ask if they are going to put a dealer logo on the car, if they say yes, I ask how much are they going to pay for advertizing on my car, they look at me like I've got the plague and say they won't give me anything. I tell them to sanitize the car with all of their dealer logos or I'm walking and they don't sell a car. I got a clean car...

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Can I place fliers for my practice in the various churches around the city? Just leave them lying around?

I'd try it...you never know. They may even have a "Community Board". Though potentially lot of $ for adverts that will go in the trash.

[OCUDad]

I'd be more worried about the funeral home pamphlets.

[jk the sooner fan]

mrs jk's parents are devout catholics, and all the kids were brought up that way.....however her oldest sister has parted ways with catholicism and will leave the religious pamphlets in the bathroom and such places.....at the family homestead

i think the parents ignore it but i'd find it offensive, and i consider myself a christian

[OSUAggie]

Catholics tend not to advertise themselves or their beliefs (since they're, ya know, personal) quite as much as others, so it gets ****ing annoying that everyone else in the world seems to be enthralled with advertising their way of thinking in various forms. That's the part that ****es me off the most, anyway.

[OUDoc]

Catholics tend not to advertise themselves or their beliefs (since they're, ya know, personal) quite as much as others, so it gets ****ing annoying that everyone else in the world seems to be enthralled with advertising their way of thinking in various forms. That's the part that ****es me off the most, anyway.
Maybe that's it. I didn't know I was a typical Catholic. :)

[OUDoc]

It has to do with being a person who gets really tired of hearing how winey people get "offended" at everything. Grow up and get over it.
Would your tone would be different is it were Muslim materials lying around? Anti-US Muslim? Anti-Semetic?
Where is the line? I don't want any of it in my office.

[Okieflyer]

I didn't even bring up the "Christian argument. I was talking about all those people in todays society that get offened by anything they don't agree with. Plus how we seem to pamper them.

But I love the "personal" comments. I think any Christian, including Catholics, that can read don't see that in the bible. I think it says the opposite. It says "Go ye therefore" and "not offended for the words sake".

I can understand how a muslim or such could possibly be offended. So just one question for the "Christians" on the thread. What offends you the most? Seriously just wanting to know.

[Boarder]

Who said they were offended? Doc's worried about his customers being offended. He said it was annoying picking up stuff people left.

[Okieflyer]

Would your tone would be different is it were Muslim materials lying around? Anti-US Muslim? Anti-Semetic?
Where is the line? I don't want any of it in my office.

I guess I practice what I preach. It wouldn't bother me in the least. If you don't want it in your office, then just pick it up and throw it away. There doesn't have to be a line on this kind of stuff. Tolerance is really easy.

[Newbomb Turk]

What offends you the most? Seriously just wanting to know.

Baptists.


;)

[Boarder]

If you don't want it in your office, then just pick it up and throw it away.

That's what he does! It's just annoying to have to do that. He's just saying it's rude for people to do that without asking. Doesn't matter what it says on the pamphlet. It'd be like someone puting up a poster advertising thier car show without asking.

[jk the sooner fan]

us methodist rarely offend or annoy anybody :)

[royalfan5]

us methodist rarely offend or annoy anybody :)
That's because you are the Iowa State of Protestants.

[Okieflyer]

That's what he does! It's just annoying to have to do that. He's just saying it's rude for people to do that without asking. Doesn't matter what it says on the pamphlet. It'd be like someone puting up a poster advertising thier car show without asking.

Your right, your right, that is pretty tough to handle.

[sooner_born_1960]

I gotta agree with JK. My daughter played "upward" basketball at a UMC a few years ago, and I was hardly ever offended.

[royalfan5]

Your right, your right, that is pretty tough to handle.
Why is so hard to handle asking for permission, as well as having manners for the pamphlet distributors?

[jk the sooner fan]

question......does Doc, or somebody from his office, routinely clean the waiting room anyway?

i would hope so, because people are always leaving crap behind, and i would guess that the magazines have to be straightened and stuff

so is the real issue that there's just additional paper to pick up and throw away?

;)

[Okieflyer]

Baptists.


;)

That's only because you have to look at my ugly face once in awhile. I'm offended when I shave in the morning too!:D

[Newbomb Turk]

I'm sorry Flyer, but I agree with Doc on this one. It's probably not that big of a deal, but it's also not right to me. Kinda like when I walk out of a store and someone has put some kind of flyer (no pun intended) under my windshield wiper. I just don't like it.

[OUDoc]

The cleaning crew doesn't routinely "select" which magazines, etc, to throw away. They clean and straighten up what's there. Of course, they could be the ones leaving the material in the first place. :mad:

:D

[Newbomb Turk]

That's only because you have to look at my ugly face once in awhile. I'm offended when I shave in the morning too!:D

well there it is.

[Frozen Sooner]

The ones that get me are the ones who just keep trying to hand you that stuff while you're working. Listen lady, if I've said I'm not interested in your Easter service, STOP ASKING ME. Stop trying to hand me a pamphlet. Stop trying to hand me a Chick Tract. I'm honestly not trying to be rude, but if you persist in your behavior I'm eventually going to say something mean.

And yes, Doc is 100% right. People intentionally leaving crap in his office are rude, and anyone with the manners of a 10-year-old would know that. I suppose that it wouldn't be rude to just dump trash all over someone's home because, you know, they were going to straighten up anyhow. The only reason it's even slightly confusing is because it has religious crap printed on it.

[OSUAggie]

I guess I won't be seeing you at the pole.

[Okieflyer]

I know I'm in the minority here. I don't mind that a bit. The only thing that would bother me is if I offended one of you guys by something I write. Seriously. Well except for Newbomb.;) Sometimes on these threads it can seem not quite like it's meant. I hope it stays as a fun discussion and nothing else.

Heck I would even let OUDoc fix me.:D

Well now that really might be offensive to him.:O

[frankensooner]

I guess Flyer is down with those dudes in Vegas smacking those little cards in your face too!

I would equate it to someone leaving a dirty diaper in the waiting room, but tha is just me.

[Okieflyer]

I guess Flyer is down with those dudes in Vegas smacking those little cards in your face too!

I would equate it to someone leaving a dirty diaper in the waiting room, but tha is just me.

I guess if you can't see the difference, I guess life stinks for you.

[OUinFLA]

I'm thinking if you cut down your WAITING TIME to something reasonable, people wouldn't be so worried about reaching the "after-life" before they get to even see the doctor.

[frankensooner]

yeah, my life sucks. I wish I could trade places with you, oh smartone of smartones! :rolleyes:

[OUDoc]

I'm thinking if you cut down your WAITING TIME to something reasonable, people wouldn't be so worried about reaching the "after-life" before they get to even see the doctor.
I'm always mostly usually pretty-much on time.

[FaninAma]

Doc,

Do you share a waiting room with other doctors that might be giving mixed signals on this? I've never had patients or drug reps put anything in my office wihout asking.

[starclassic tama]

until the world grows up and realizing how ridiculous it is to keep practicing religions i'm afraid these will never stop

[Boarder]

until the world grows up and realizing how ridiculous it is to keep practicing religions i'm afraid these will never stop
What does a guy leaving a pharmaceutical ad without asking have to do with the world not growing up?

[Scott D]

What offends you the most? Seriously just wanting to know.

people who don't use the Krylon Johnny Bench pictures for avatars instead of the younger Cincinnati Red Johnny Bench pictures ;)

[LilSooner]

us methodist rarely offend or annoy anybody :)



Holy crap another thing we have in common. Shocking! Shocking I say.

[Ike]

All this would stop if doctors would just ammend the hippocratic oath to say that they swear never to treat heathens.

[IB4OU2]

No religious material please 'cause I love reading those 2 year old copies of Outdoor Life.:D

[Harry Beanbag]

I think the real tragedy in this scenario is all the poor trees that had to die needlessly just fill up more landfill space.

[Dio]

I guess I won't be seeing you at the pole.

This is a church thread, not a gay thread. ;)

[Dio]

until the world grows up and realizing how ridiculous it is to keep practicing religions i'm afraid these will never stop

Going to hell AND playing the wrong drums. It's sad, really.

[phead903]

until the world grows up and realizing how ridiculous it is to keep practicing religions i'm afraid these will never stop

But if they don't practice, how will they ever get it right?:D

[critical_phil]

I'm always mostly usually pretty-much on time.



your semi-commitment to quasi-excellence is somewhat remarkable.

[SoonerGirl06]

It's when the Hari-Krishna guys show up that I REALLY get annoyed.

[SoonerGirl06]

I'm always mostly usually pretty-much on time.

Well if ya didn't post on SF.com while you're supposed to be examining patients....


;) :D

[OUDoc]

It's when the Hari-Krishna guys show up that I REALLY get annoyed.
That's just for pelvic exams.

[SoonerGirl06]

That's just for pelvic exams.


Those damn tamborines! Totally ruin the moment. :mad: