Go home?
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- TheBlueOne
OK, so they started painting our office on Friday..it's now Tuesday and the paint fumes are fucking overwhelming - even with my window wide open..yesterday I went home with a killer headache that kept me awake until 4am. This morning I walk in and they're painting all the window/door trim with an oil based paint and it's even worse..my boss is calling me a pussy for saying I can't work in this shit...
Should I tell him to fuck it and go home..?
- paraselene0
yes.
- grunttt0
i second that.
- elms0
go home
- frankiefido0
get a gas mask or give them the gas face
- TheBlueOne0
give them the gas face
frankiefido
(Jan 31 07, 05:40)That's involuntary at this point...
- OSFA0
start smoking at your desk.
- grunttt0
sneak up behind some of co-workers and hit them over the head with a hardback design annual or maybe a coffee mug then go to your boss and say "Mark, Julie, and Bruce have headaches too."
- Nairn0
tell your boss he'll be sporting his own pussy if he keeps inhaling that shit.
i don't know what it's like in the states, but in the UK we have the dreaded 'health and safety executive' ensuring worker safety and standards. Paint fumes likely contravene a number of regulations, and you shouldn't have to put up with them.
Your boss calling you out surely knows he has no right to demand you stay there, which is why he's relying on that whole male jock thing.
Suggest that you suspect it's illegal, and they'll belt up.
I've done this in the past - with a faulty copier spewing ozone, after a demi-fumigation and to get new window blinds that actually blinded sunlight, instead of me.
the only person ruining my health will be me, thankyou very much.
- acescence0
in NYC you can call 311 and have them connect you to the health dept
- paraselene0
*applause
- frankiefido0
your boss sounds like a twat
- TheBlueOne0
Ten more minutes then I'm outta here...
- tibor0
Pussy.
- TheBlueOne0
The problem is I do design work for a General Contractor..I'm the only "college boy" in a work place full of blue collar guys...I'm like sitting here going "Fuck..." and they're all like "Ah this is nothing, I've been breathing this shit in for years..what's wrong with you? All you got to do is sit there and type?"
- pascii0
collar guys have mostly no sense to smell because they're using too much aloe vera or cocaine
- mimeartist0
If you hadn't have bought it up, you could of rang environmental health to come over... and they'd send everyone home... trouble is if you did that now you'd be the one everyone would think did it
- canuck0
Get back to work.
- exador10
hey blue
go home dude...if they give you flack it's easy enough for you to say 'look...fine...i know you guys have had years of doing this and think nothing of it...but i don't...and for my job i need to concentrate and sit in one place...and right now i can't do that...i've got a splitting headache from poisonous fumes'
just spell it out for em and let em know that you yourself aren't a construction worker..and can't be expected to act like one...unless they want a turn at sitting down in front of photoshop and turning out some awesome work...?...see...they can't be YOU either....
- mimeartist0
...but then again, if you're the one saying this, they'll not think it was you who would of done it...
then again, again... you could be dead now... so it won't matter
- mimeartist0
...or say to them, look his is my laptop I'm off home to work.