To refuse to work tomorrow?

[QuestionableMouse]

It's been hell today. No heating. No hot water. Door playing up because of the wind so at times we've had snow and sleet blowing in. It's fucking freezing. I'm also really feeling the cold due to anemia so once I get cold it takes me an age to get warm again.

I'm meant to be on a ten hour shift tomorrow but I'm honestly thinking about ringing in sick because it's so damn cold. I did a temp and it was 12c on the dining area. Manager refuses to close and it'll be the same tomorrow.

Wibu to refuse to work?

Depends how much you’ve moaned to colleagues and whether you’ve asked and been refused to have today off. If you have they’ll know you’re faking. If you haven’t I would definitely suddenly develop a sickness bug…

Where do you work? I thought you couldn’t serve food if there’s no hot water. It sounds terrible OP, I’d phone in sick in your position because if you work there tomorrow there’s every chance you will become poorly.

Where is this dining area?

Aren't there rules on this, the health and safety executive have guidelines. Could you check that out?

Life’s to short to work 10 hours in that freezing cold!

Take the day off if you can afford it, go get yourself some lovely soup and a box of chocolates and enjoy it by the fire

@IncompleteSenten

Aren't there rules on this, the health and safety executive have guidelines. Could you check that out?

Definitely rules on this and you have rights. Do you belong to a union? If so get them involved.

It sounds grim and totally unacceptable conditions. To be honest I think the cold needs addressing rather than just not going. Can you wear more layers ask for a curtain at the door ir more heaters......?

Are you in the UK? Your workplace has to meet a certain temperature.
I would go in, with a thermometer and leave if it is below what's legally required and explain why. Because you will feel ill as a result of working in those conditions. You've got employment rights.

16 degrees Celsius minimum, unless the work is strenuous, then it's 13 degrees Celsius.

No upper limit on temperatures, due to bakeries, foundries and glassworks..

What industry do you work in OP? Union rep here

It's people pulling sickies that means that people who are genuinely sick get treated like shit and disbelieved.

Plus it means that you leave your colleagues in the shit.

It's always the same people who are always "sick". Ringing up 5 mins before they are due to start with a pitiful bleating voice and fake cough.

Pathetic.

That's awful op, where do you work?!?

I wouldn’t lie about sickness but do get the anaemia sorted.

you mean it's cold at work? or cold at home?
if your work is nice and warm it might be preferable to 12 degrees indoors.

It's people pulling sickies that means that people who are genuinely sick get treated like shit and disbelieved
Plus it means that you leave your colleagues in the shit

^this. I mean it sounds awful but wear layers/thermals/leave if need be. Don’t pull a sickie. If you are genuinely sick then by all means phone in.

Can you ring in sick stating the anaemia so that it’s the truth? I couldn’t make myself be somewhere so uncomfortably cold, it’s like torture to me.

I voted YANBU. I'd ring in sick too.

@IncompleteSenten

Aren't there rules on this, the health and safety executive have guidelines. Could you check that out?

Thought it had to be at least 16°.

@THisbackwithavengeance

It's people pulling sickies that means that people who are genuinely sick get treated like shit and disbelieved.

Plus it means that you leave your colleagues in the shit.

It's always the same people who are always "sick". Ringing up 5 mins before they are due to start with a pitiful bleating voice and fake cough.

Pathetic.

This is not really pulling a sickie is it. It's refusing to be treated like shit.

"it means that you leave your colleagues in the shit."
We haven't been given enough information to know this.

"Pathetic."

You're the pathetic one if you think it's OK to treat people worse than animals.

@Appiandterri

It's people pulling sickies that means that people who are genuinely sick get treated like shit and disbelieved Plus it means that you leave your colleagues in the shit

^this. I mean it sounds awful but wear layers/thermals/leave if need be. Don’t pull a sickie. If you are genuinely sick then by all means phone in.

You are more at risk of catching a cold (and probably Covid too) if you're too cold so she may well end up ill.

I voted not to work but I regularly go in wearing thermals under my uniform.

@Helpstopthepain

I voted not to work but I regularly go in wearing thermals under my uniform.

I wear thermals to put up with the walk to work. It doesn't mean I'll put up with 12C AT work. That's not acceptable.

You are more at risk of catching a cold (and probably Covid too) if you're too cold so she may well end up ill

So then she phones in sick. You don’t phone in sick because you could end up sick.

@Gwenhwyfar I agree which is why I said not to go in. I was just saying that I wear thermals at work, not that it’s acceptable.

If she's anaemic then she's more likely to fall sick if she becomes chilled. It can predispose you to picking up infections.