to be annoyed that the person I share a room with at work was sick into her bin for 4 hours rather than go home?!

[ElizabethWakefield]

I'm not sure I possibly can be, but I feel like I need a rant anyway!

Colleague came in at 9am this morning feeling ill, she then proceeded to puke in her bin, on and off between sleeping with her head on her desk, for 4 hours!

I share an office with her, the office has no windows but is "climate controlled" and was stinking! I repeatedly told her she should go home, but she said she wouldn't unless someone came to collect her and she couldn't get a hold of anyone, so she continued to sit and puke (not emptying the bin at any point.

Finally I had to go and ask our acting manager to actually send her home as I couldn't stand being in the office any longer, or to at least go and sit in the sick room. But again she refused. Finally 4 and a bit after the first time she threw up, someone came to pick her up!

Now I am not the best with vomit, slightly phobic, but surely that is unhygienic and just horrible.

There were other people coming into our office finding her either puking or sleeping, which looks awful!

Colleague gets annoyed with people when they use sick leave as she feels you should be at work unless you are literally dying, I feel you should not come into work when that ill. I want someone to say to her that in future she needs to stay off when she is like that, or at least go home (work pay to send you home in a taxi if ill btw)

So am I horribly unsympathetic (to be fair i was sympathetic the first time it happened, 4 hours later, I wasn't!) and irrationally annoyed by this (as i said a bit phobic so not really rational) or do i have a fair point?

YADNBU

Yuk. YANBU.

YUK, YUK, YUK!
Does she live far away? Would the company not pay for a taxi for her? Was she too ill to get into a cab herself?

I'd be pretty annoyed to be honest but if it came to it and it wasn't a fortune, I'd pay for a cab myself. What's wrong with her? Make sure you disinfect the place. As my name suggests, I'd have been sitting there in a mask and full overalls. !
YUK!

I would be horribly unsympathetic with her aswell to be honest. I wouldn't have gone into work at all if I was vomiting, let alone refuse to go home until I was collected. She obviously has no consideration for you at all. I would be very annoyed at her for bringing her germs into work and making your office stink. It's disgusting behaviour to sit there and vomit in a bin at work.

Euch

what's the point of her being at work if she wasn't actually working?

Was she too ill to get herself home?

At my work someone would have driven her home

YANBU at all! If she really couldn't get home, she could have gone to the sick room. Or gone to get some fresh air. Yuk.

YANBU - that is disgusting. Vomiting bugs are some of the easiest to spread as well - she could easily have given it to everyone else in the office.

I'm surprised your manager didn't send her home on the spot, and I'm amazed you put up with it for so long - I would have at least tried to get her banished to the toilets after the first vomiting incident!

Bet she had a hangover so didn't feel she could justify ringing in "sick"

But, no, YANBU

I am surprised your manager didnt do something more about it. If there is a sick room, there isnt much excuse for making her stay in your office is there. YANBU

I wouldn't have thought any cab driver would take someone puking into a bin

Glad it's not just me!

Our work pay for a taxi to take you home, but she wouldn't get one. She lives maybe a 15 min drive away, so I would imagine she could have got home ok. But we have a medical room, even to go and sit in there would have been better. I would be mortified to sit at my desk like that!

After she left, another member of staff that works in the next room went to boots and bought disinfectant and air freshener....bleugh!!!

I would be livid if I caught a sickness bug because of her behaviour.
Why didn't she stay in the toilets if she was that ill?

Bad form for her manager not insisting she went home

I think i would have walked out and not gone back till she had gone. Its not fair that you had to put up with that .Can totally understand how you feel as that is one of my phobias too.

YUK YUK YUK. YADNBU. Who emptied the bin?

gosh how horrible

I would hate to be sick in front of other people if it could be avoided - she could have been sick in the loo!

could she not get a taxi? (I suppose they might not want her in there either) - I agrree at surprise that your manager didn't do more

Our manager was off on holiday, so we were all at a bit of a loss as what to do. I just kept thinking of jobs to do (some real and some fake ) that would take me our of the office for lengths of time.

My hands are also well washed and antibac'd!!

ah x-post

How utterly disgusting and inconsiderate! You are totally not BU. Appalling behaviour from your colleague.

TBH I don't think you should have waited 4h. That bin should have been emptied immediately she chucked. Definitely a H&S issue there.

Can you make a formal complaint? Did the acting manager have the authority to send her home? How does s/he feel about it? I'm not too good at office politics, but personally I would want to find some way of taking this further and complaining higher up theline. There is no way you should have been obliged to be exposed to such conditions.

yanbu. Presenteeism (sp?) at it's worst.

I would have been so blunt with her.

Revolting, I would have gone home myself and DARED anyone to complain

YANBU at all!!! Why can't she go to the loo? I never heard of anyone being sick in a bin - how strange, not to mention revolting and unhygienic!

I do think, that maybe you could be sick into your bin maybe once as a one off, if you got caught short!? But I would then have personally made the effort to go elsewhere (home or toilet)

The acting manager (his first day doing it) was horrified, but not really sure what to do! Apart from asking her to leave, offering taxis and everything.

Hopefully no one else will catch it!