Thoughtless Snotty Git!

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CatherineB

New Member
Location
Leeds
So my boss came into work just now, he was staying home cause he's sick as hell with a sore throat and a cold but there's some emergency meeting he had to come in for. Anyway he comes in and says 'my computer's taking forever to start up, can you just look up something for me real quick" and leans over my desk, right in my face. I roll waaay back in my chair, 'oh-hoh!' I say, only about 10% joking. 'You better keep back with that lurgy'. 'Oh, I'm sorry' he says and steps back a bit and starts to tell me what to search for on the network drive. Then he sneezes without even turning away - ok, whatever, at least he covered his face with his hands. And then he reaches over and says 'Oh, uh, just let me...' and leans over right in my face again, and before I can stop him he's got his snotty sneezy hands on my mouse and my keyboard and then he sneezes AGAIN and only makes a half-ared attempt to use his shoulder to cover his face (and, in the process, directs most of the sneeze right over at me to his right).

Anyway, I didn't say a word, I just went straight to the bathroom and washed my hands, and then borrowed some computer and telephone disinfecting wipes from the women who work across the hall. I ostentatiously put them on my desk right in front of him and stood there at a safe distance until he was done. When he finished with my computer, he picked up the container of wipes. 'Ooh, can you get some of these for me? I'm sure I caught this cold here at the office.'

Apparently I am nothing more than human office equipment and therefore incapable of catching cold. If he's in tomorrow, I'm going to wear a swine flu mask to make a point.
 

Rhythm Thief

Legendary Member
Location
Ross on Wye
CatherineB said:

Apparently I am nothing more than human office equipment and therefore incapable of catching cold. If he's in tomorrow, I'm going to wear a swine flu mask to make a point.


I'd phone in sick, if I was you.:ohmy:
We hasd a bloke do this at my last job, just efore Christmas. He looked like death and kept saying "oh, I've never had a day off sick". Well, matey, it's about time you did cos if you give me that cold for Christmas I'm not going to be at all happy.:smile:
 

ttcycle

Cycling Excusiast
no subtlety about it needed - just tell him and be diplomatic and don't be personal. Probably shouldn't be in though if he's that ill unless your work's company sick pay is rubbish?
 

Norm

Guest
Dreadful actions, and filthy attitude. I can't keep quiet when someone does that. It happened this morning, when a young female colleague coughed. I told her I wasn't really up for any exchange of body fluids and offered her a box of tissues.
 

Rhythm Thief

Legendary Member
Location
Ross on Wye
The sick pay point is a good one, though: I get no sick pay worth speaking of - SSP only, which is about £70 a week - and I haven't had any in the last ten years or so. I couldn't afford a week off, even a day leaves me a bit short. Mind you, I don't really see anyone else in my job now so it's not an (att)issue.:ohmy:
 

gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
Some people bahave in the wierdest way when they get a cold...i get them in the workshop, all snotting and sneezing and standing over you :ohmy:
They get a short sharp..fcuk off, i dont want your cold :smile:. (seriously)

Know what they do ?...grin and carry on. I think there's a gleefullness about passing it on for some people.
 
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CatherineB

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Location
Leeds
Rhythm Thief said:
The sick pay point is a good one, though: I get no sick pay worth speaking of - SSP only, which is about £70 a week - and I haven't had any in the last ten years or so. I couldn't afford a week off, even a day leaves me a bit short. Mind you, I don't really see anyone else in my job now so it's not an (att)issue.:ohmy:

I work for the NHS, so he's getting paid whether he's here snotting up the office or at home snotting up his own house. In fact I know people who have been off for weeks and weeks at full pay for things like work related anxiety and irritable bowel syndrome.
 

Rhythm Thief

Legendary Member
Location
Ross on Wye
CatherineB said:
I work for the NHS, so he's getting paid whether he's here snotting up the office or at home snotting up his own house. In fact I know people who have been off for weeks and weeks at full pay for things like work related anxiety and irritable bowel syndrome.

In that case, turning up to work while sick is just weird. I know I wouldn't.
 
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CatherineB

New Member
Location
Leeds
Rhythm Thief said:
In that case, turning up to work while sick is just weird. I know I wouldn't.

I agree completely. In fact I think I feel a bout of snot-related anxiety coming on, which should be cured by a month off work (at full pay, natch) and plenty of lie-ins and long, leisurely bike rides.
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
HTFU.....you are a cyclist and you are hard............

PS keep away from snotty people for at least 30 minutes after a bike ride....... after that you will be OK.............. (works...... build it into the getting changed/clean routine)

Then spray him down with detox........................
 
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