To have asked colleague to pay for my coat?

[GreenSnot]

Office based job. Colleague was flying around the office on a wheeled chair on Monday, I’d asked her to stop twice but she carried on. Then she ended up wheeling over my coat which was on the back of my chair (but partly on the floor). The coat got tangled in the wheels and ripped. It was a Barbour coat so not cheap but not massively expensive either. I said “you should pay something towards me getting a new one” and she said “oh chill out, it shouldn’t have been on the floor”. I said “you shouldn’t be flying around on the office on the chair!” Anyway another colleague charmed in and said she’d knocked a dent into the filing cabinet last week after crashing into it and she should offer to pay for that too.

Now a number of colleagues have taken her side and have started taking the piss like dropping a tea bag and shouting “someone needs to pay for that” etc etc

Was I unreasonable to ask her to pay towards my coat?

@Gemmathecat

Very ableist. Not her fault she’s in a chair and you should be respectful to her condition and keep your belongings in a safe place

@Gemmathecat

You obviously haven't read ANY of the thread, like ANY of it, not even the OP's original post. It wasn't a WHEELCHAIR!

You owe the OP an apology.

🤣🤞

Can you claim for repair or replacement from your company?

What an embarrassment.

I would chalk it up to experience and try and get it repaired. I know there was nowhere to hang your coat (definitely worth asking management to get coat hooks!) but I would’ve probably moved my coat when it was clear the office muppet wasn’t going to stop!

Also I’d really love a link to the other Barbour coat thread - I have a vague recollection but can’t remember what happened!

Colleague was being an arse. But I doubt you'll get any money towards your coat.

Posters blaming you are also being arses imo.

I'd go to management and tell them that your coat was ripped at work and you would like recompense. Then tell them how it happened, and that this colleague is being difficult and unpleasant about it.

or you could accidentally drop a cup of coffee into her open handbag

Confused why are you all up in arms

You’re both to blame really. Your coat should be hung up away from the office area and definitely not on the floor. Yea could be spilled or any other kind of accident. She should not be wheeling about if she’s able bodied. I would expect her to offer rather than you demand .

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@Gemmathecat

Very ableist. Not her fault she’s in a chair and you should be respectful to her condition and keep your belongings in a safe place

Good grief.

She is not disabled. She has no condition. She is just an arse.

RTFT

Don’t be so haste not all disabilities are visible

@TrashyPanda well she’s in a chair for a reason not all disabilities are visible

Had a similar situation, office, wheely chair, colleague pulled the back of my chair,my skirt caught in the tilt mechanism and ripped. Asked her to pay,she refused. When she left, refused to pay towards her leaving present. Was sitting there, when a colleague told her.

[quote Gemmathecat]@TrashyPanda well she’s in a chair for a reason not all disabilities are visible[/quote]
Have you been sniffing the grass?

[quote Gemmathecat]@TrashyPanda well she’s in a chair for a reason not all disabilities are visible[/quote]
OP has clarified it is not a wheelchair colleague was using. Just a normal office chair.

[quote Gemmathecat]@TrashyPanda well she’s in a chair for a reason not all disabilities are visible[/quote]
She's in an office chair which happened to have wheels on it

[quote Gemmathecat]@TrashyPanda well she’s in a chair for a reason not all disabilities are visible[/quote]
She is in an office chair
Not a wheelchair.
She is not disabled.

She is an arse.
RTFT

I'd be emailing your line manager and HR highlighting this immature behaviour (both the wheeling and the taunting)
I'd be asking for coat to recompense, bullying behaviour to be nipped in the bud and a place to safely store your belongs, by the next 8 weeks : be it a locker, locked drawer and adequate hangers.

Not all disabilities are visible.

I agree. Well said.

well she’s in a chair for a reason not all disabilities are visible

And similarly not everyone who chooses to park their arse on a chair has a disability. Some of us just want a seat.

And most of us don’t whirl it about like a waltzer.

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

Not all disabilities are visible.

I agree. Well said.

well she’s in a chair for a reason not all disabilities are visible

And similarly not everyone who chooses to park their arse on a chair has a disability. Some of us just want a seat.

And most of us don’t whirl it about like a waltzer.

It’s a wheelchair so yes she probably does need it

Simple. The one that damaged it should pay for it. What a load of bitches at your work!

This really pisses me off, this kind of thing- nice people like you and me would automatically refund the person whose property we’d damaged, whereas if it’d been done to us, we’d be chasing a contribution- any contribution! A tenner at least?!- to the end of time.
The perpetrator is cf.

Good grief

It is not a wheelchair gemma

It is an office chair with wheels.

Tiny bit different….

It's always the Barbour coats that get ripped on Mumsnet.