10 Things that Make for a Hostile Work Environment in this Climate
- Caitlin McNamara & Melanie Vassilopoulos
- Having to change a diaper during work hours (unless your job is to change diapers in which case…carry on) and not even getting hazard pay for it.
- Carrying out duties for two full time jobs simultaneously. No pun intended with the duties.
- Having to prepare everyone’s meals and then on top of it being verbally accosted for cutting someone’s food in the wrong shape; squares apparently taste different than triangles.
- Getting sneezed on, drooled on, or coughed on and then having to teach the person the right way to wash their hands. At this rate I could work for the CDC.
- Having to explain to the new members of your department why having their fingers up their nose creates a contagion risk. Move over Dr. Fauci, there’s a new sheriff in town.
- New co-workers exposing both old co-workers and myself to a “see-food” experience during a video conference.
- Adopting a secret identity after hearing, “Mom. Mommy. Mama. Ma. Mooooom! Look at me! Watch this. Mom, did you see that?” every single time co-workers perform some mundane task. I mean, I am happy that they are drinking their water when they get thirsty, or going to the bathroom when they get the urge, but do I really need to praise them every ten minutes?
- Needing to break up fights in the new office. I understand that one person didn’t like the way the other person looked at them, but I did not sign up to be a bouncer.
- Having to rinse some kind of bodily fluid off of a co-worker’s clothing and then launder it all while having a serious phone conversation with your boss.
- Finding out that there is in fact a limit to the decibels that the human ear can withstand.
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