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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?!

105 replies

ElizabethWakefield · 24/05/2010 14:52

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?

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nickytwotimes · 24/05/2010 19:28

Yanbu at all.
How horrible.
I did once work somewhere that was so short-staffed that when I went in to take over, the person who had been running the shop for the previous 4 hrs had been sporadically vomiting into the bucket behind the till. If she'd phoned me, I'd have come in at the start of her shift and let her get home.

louii · 24/05/2010 19:33

That is bloody disgusting I would have told her how vile she was and refused to work in office till she was gone!
Did u not tell her to go to the loo, god, imagine behaving like that!

pigletmania · 24/05/2010 19:34

YADNBU what a selfish cow, she should have not come in like that spreading her germs around.

pigletmania · 24/05/2010 19:35

I agree with MrsOCD, mask and disposable overalls at the ready yuk, yuk, yuk

MunchkinsMumof2 · 24/05/2010 19:37

That is disgusting, she should know better! as an aside, we went to the cinema and the woman next to us ate a whole bag of sweets in minutes and then proceeded to chuck them up into a plastic bag and didn't even leave the film!!

Fluffyone · 24/05/2010 19:39

Bloody hell, why didn't you just walk out?

pigletmania · 24/05/2010 19:41

Munchkin [shock. Some people are filthy buggers with no sense of pride

MunchkinsMumof2 · 24/05/2010 19:42

we were right at the end of the row and just assumed she would leave.....she didn't ugh.

IfAtFirstUDontSucceed · 24/05/2010 19:50

I really shouldnt have read this after just eating.... urgghh!

I am totally shocked that anyone could even think that this was OK to do.
Disgusting!

MrsHarkness · 24/05/2010 20:11

Please tell me the filthy disgusting woman took her sick filled bin home with her and never left it for some poor cleaner to deal with!

gobsmackedetal · 24/05/2010 20:19

Yuk, YANBU.

now...was the bin cleaned after she was gone? Or did you have to put up with the smell for the entire day?

pigletmania · 24/05/2010 20:23

The whole bin should be thrown away, what a health hazard!

tasmaniandevilchaser · 24/05/2010 20:30

Filthy, dirty woman!

ElizabethWakefield · 24/05/2010 20:33

Munchkin, yuck!

Ironically (I think it is ironic although DP always says I use irony incorrectly ) the woman is our health and safety person!!

After she left I phoned the cleaning dept to see if there was a procedure we should follow, I'm sure there is a bodily fluids thing, but a cleaner came and removed the binbag from the bin and that was it, other person from my department went out at lunchtime and bought disinfectant to clean out the bin.

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mollymawk · 24/05/2010 20:43

Haha
Sorry, I know it's been really gross for you but that is funny in a horribly grim way that she is the H&S person!

RunawayWife · 24/05/2010 20:46

Yuck, dirty bitch.
I think you have every right to be cross with her, can you make a complaint about her to HR?
I would as she is not only dirty but selfish and very un-professional

RunawayWife · 24/05/2010 20:53

Have to add thought my sister (who has no children) was staying over and was shearing a room with DS1 (he has a bunk bed with a double futon at the bottom) anyway he was unwell in the night and woke my sister up saying he was going to be sick, (thankfully she has worked out that when a child says they are going to be sick they mean that very second) as there was not time to get him to the bathroom she grabbed the bin and shoved it in front of him just as he let rip, this would have been all well and good except the bin is a trendy one with holes in it so all that was achived was vomit shooting out in more the one direction

Much shouting of runaway help help!!!!
Both DS1 and Sis ended up having showers and bedding was put in to the was while carpet and wall were attacked with dettol.

Just trying to bring some grossness humor to the thread

moraystella · 24/05/2010 21:14

Hi

I manage a team of 30 people and have had a few similar instances this week as there is defintely a nasty bug going round

I told a member of staff to go home this week and she went after a few hours

As you say this is vital for health and safety and it is unacceptable to risk infecting colleagues in this way

WingedVictory · 25/05/2010 08:18

Sack her as H&S officer.

ElizabethWakefield · 25/05/2010 12:40

She is back today

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DuelingFanjo · 25/05/2010 13:00

oooh - has she said anything about what was wrong?

ElizabethWakefield · 25/05/2010 13:10

A bug apparently. I would have taken at least today off after that!

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BigFatSepticToe · 25/05/2010 13:16

she should not be back in today, should leave a full 24 hours since she was last ill

but actually she should not have the nerve to ever show her face again, as that was just gross behaviour!!!

OldMacEIEIO · 25/05/2010 13:47

Does she get paid by the hour ? or is she salaried ?

Sometimes people who are skint who get paid an hourly rate will go to work even when they are dead.

WingedVictory · 25/05/2010 14:21

What has she said, ElizabethWakefield? I am agog.

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