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Wierd Pregnancy Thing
Topic Started: Oct 25 2008, 07:35:40 AM (72 Views)
Anastasia Beaverhausen
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Over the last week I have been developing a revulsion to a woman that I work with, and now its grown to a full on disgust that makes me have to fight off a heave whenever she is near me!!

Shes a lovely woman, but, she takes no care over herself at all and to make it worse, she takes no care over the germs that she spreads about! She sneezes loudly and doesnt cover her mouth, coughs constantly and doesnt cover her mouth and sticks her toungue out whenever she does it. Is always wiping her nose on her sleeve. She is not sick, but just one of those germy snotty people who doesnt do herself any favours.

She smokes, and is a really dirty smelly smoker. I know the non smokers here will say all smokers are like that, but, when I smoked I took care to make sure I didnt blow smoke all over myself and to have a mint afterwards. My habit, so I tried hard not to make others suffer. There are other smokers in the office, and I can never smell it on them, other than when they have just had a ciggie. When She gets back from having a ciggie, the whole office stinks, its like a cloud that follows her!

She has also just got married, and had acrylic nails done for the big day. That was six weeks ago and she is hanging on to these nails, but they look awaful. Dirty and cracked and just fowl. To make it worse, she constantly has her fingers in her mouth, chewing at these nails and picking her teeth. Then she touches you or your stuff!! I keep telling her to take her fingers out of her mouth, she laughs it off, but i am serious, it makes me feel sick.

Whenever she picks up a piece of paper, she has to lick her fingers to move the paper about. A lot of people do this, but when she does it, I feel like throwing up and want to incinerate the paperwork. I have thrown stuff away after she has touched it, discretly of course.

Now these are habits she has always had, so nothing new, so the only thing I can put it down to is a wierd pregnancy thing. I had a similar thing when I was pregnant with Harry. Only it was Dan that made me feel sick :lol: My midwife laughed when I told her and said it was normal, and Dan took it all in good humour. But to be repulsed by a colleagues....thats a new one on me.

This isnt something I would approach her about. They are ingrained habits and I would just embarass her, and as I said earlier, she is a lovely woman, but man is she making me feel sick.

Am I being unfair or wierd!!
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Melibeam
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Lol she sounds disgusting. I would feel sick too and I am not pregnant. In pregnancy your senses are enhanced and its normal to feel more strongly about things that only bothered you slightly before. Its healthy, it shows you have strong pregnancy hormones working well. Take care :thumbsup:
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Snappy
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PMSL That is a classic Claire as Mel says she sounds very disgusting. I also agree with the heightened senses so just try to avoid her at all cost maybe or start to chuck up on her everytime she does something then she may get the hint lol
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rjs
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I feel sick just hearing about her,the whole tongue out coughing thing yuk.
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ohippy
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I'd never cope working with someone like that, how disgusting. You deserve a medal putting up with it for so long :barf:
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Tiredwithtwins
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sorry, but its not on to behave like that. :no:
I worked with someone similar, we started by putting together a box of stuff and sending it anonymously with a note saying 'I think your personal hygiene habits are sadly lacking - rather than confront you personally i felt it more appropriate and discrete to send you these, please use them' - we sent deodorant and a couple of tins of impulse. she went off work for a week out of embarassment, but came back smelling much nicer and no one had to say anything as it was done as if just one person had noticed it rather than the entire ward.
you could do something similar, but put in hankies, alcohol hand rub, nail files and a couple of leaflets about the spread of germs that you could probably pick up in the doctors.
dont put up with it ... why should you have to deal with someone elses bacteria - it could be something serious she sneezes all over you next time! Do what we did, anonymously, and if she asks you all deny it was you - she wont ask for long i can guarantee it!
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catgirl
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Gawd I'm not preggers and she makes me feel yuck! How long have you got to put with this now Claire (as in when do you finish for materinity leave)
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Anastasia Beaverhausen
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Its becoming like OCD in the workplace!! She has just parked herself at the end of my desk, she left and I got out a sterilising wipe!!!

I have the anti bac stuff on my desk and bought some for her (and others) when we all had colds. It was mainly for her, as she spread the cold in the first place, but its still sat on her desk...unused.
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Lynnj
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well my first thought when I read this was OMG SOMEBODY MARRIED THIS WOMAN!!!!!! WTF MUST HE BE LIKE :crazy: :crazy:

You have to remember that she probably has no idea that what she does is anything other than normal, has done so since she was a child (ok maybe not the smoking) and nobody has ever corrected her.

Maybe make a comment about the smell of smoke, blame it on the pregnancy say something like "I'm really sorry but would you mind keeping your distance after you've had a fag because the smell of smoke makes me want to heave, must be these bloody preggie hormones" Or something like "would you mind covering your mouth and keeping your tongue where it should be when you cough or sneeze as you are a human not a camel" may just get your point over.

Lovely lady or not she needs to get a grip on her social graces.
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