Yesterday a coworker of mine got a call from her daughter's preschool that her daughter was running a 103 degree temp and needed to be picked up from school. This coworker had taken off 3 days of work last week to run around so she decided she couldn't afford another day off so she picked up her daughter and brought her to work with her. (and yes, our boss allowed her to do it).
I spoke to the boss and expressed my concerns, not only about her passing around her illness and the risk to my children, but also that I think it's just wrong for her to have a child who is that sick at work with her. The child needed to be at the dr, not sitting in a bank all day.
The boss ended up telling the coworker that I was upset so she needed to move into a private office for the day (she usually works right beside me). So, the coworker looked at me all snotty and said "we're just going in there so we don't give you our germs". And she hasn't spoken to me since. It has been so tense and ugly at work. I hate it.
My daughter has had the hardest year of her life this year. She has been sick so much and has lost a huge amount of lung function. I go out of my way to try to avoid her getting sick again...and then for someone to so carelessly spread illness... it just urks me. And for her to disregard everyone else's health so she doesn't have to take a day off is ubsurd. Keep in mind, this girl hasn't worked a full week in a year... she misses all the time for no reason at all. She must just be having financial issues right now and can't afford this one day...
My issue right now isn't so much that this girl is mad at me. But I think everyone else at work is too. I work in a large bank but we are a small group in the bank that is pretty much isolated off by ourselves. There are only 5 of us in our group. All 4 of the others (including the boss) have been acting like they are irritated with me. Like I caused needless trouble. I'm not sure how I should handle it. I really haven't said anything. I just told the boss that I didn't think she should bring her sick child to work... Isn't that just plain common sense???? Or am I overreacting?
I spoke to the boss and expressed my concerns, not only about her passing around her illness and the risk to my children, but also that I think it's just wrong for her to have a child who is that sick at work with her. The child needed to be at the dr, not sitting in a bank all day.
The boss ended up telling the coworker that I was upset so she needed to move into a private office for the day (she usually works right beside me). So, the coworker looked at me all snotty and said "we're just going in there so we don't give you our germs". And she hasn't spoken to me since. It has been so tense and ugly at work. I hate it.
My daughter has had the hardest year of her life this year. She has been sick so much and has lost a huge amount of lung function. I go out of my way to try to avoid her getting sick again...and then for someone to so carelessly spread illness... it just urks me. And for her to disregard everyone else's health so she doesn't have to take a day off is ubsurd. Keep in mind, this girl hasn't worked a full week in a year... she misses all the time for no reason at all. She must just be having financial issues right now and can't afford this one day...
My issue right now isn't so much that this girl is mad at me. But I think everyone else at work is too. I work in a large bank but we are a small group in the bank that is pretty much isolated off by ourselves. There are only 5 of us in our group. All 4 of the others (including the boss) have been acting like they are irritated with me. Like I caused needless trouble. I'm not sure how I should handle it. I really haven't said anything. I just told the boss that I didn't think she should bring her sick child to work... Isn't that just plain common sense???? Or am I overreacting?