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By lovelyliz

November 13, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

Mentally sick and tired? Oh yeah!!!!!

By lea

November 13, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Germs are not the only problem. Working long days in windowless buildings puts people at risk for vitamin D deficiency, which in turn puts you at risk for a myriad of other diseases and health problems.

By BlahBlahBlah

November 13, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

I think I’m sick of living in fear at work. Everybody is freaked out thinking they are going to get laid off. I’m over it.

By Lala

November 13, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

The germiest place I ever worked was International Baggage Re-check,oh the nasty stinking bags that used to come in from some third world countries. Yuck!

By Lala

November 13, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

The germiest place I ever worked was International Baggage Re-check,oh the nasty stinking bags that used to come in from some third world countries. Yuck!

By lulu

November 13, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

My job makes me sick. I’m a private tutor and rather than having kids miss a session, parents always bring sick kids in. I’ve been sick (stomach flu then cold then pink eye) for almost a month straight now.

I don’t stay home - I can’t afford it, there is nobody to cover for me if I’m sick, and I figure if I’m getting sick, all the other kids are already getting sick anyway.

The only time I took time off was when my son was sick. I refuse to be as irresponsible as the parents of kids I teach - I stayed home with him rather than taking him to daycare.

By Sal

November 13, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

I’m a nurse but am exposed to FAR more germs when I volunteer at my kid’s school in the library. After reshelving all those books that kids have sneezed on, dropped food on, and handled after you know darn well that THEY haven’t washed their hands since they left home in the morning for school, my hands can practically FEEL the germs crawling around on them.

By chris

November 13, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

Being on an airplane as a flight attendant in a tin can with 100 to 250 passengers. during cold and flu season is pretty bad.

By G Juanita J.

November 13, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

I have an office job. I keep hand sanitizer and Lysol Spray at my desk all the time. I spray the phones, mouse, key pads, when I get up and someone comes to my desk. And when they get up from my area, I apray. They know me, so they don’t mind. In fact, they do the same, but not as often. I constantly keep things washed down. So, our sick record is for less that some in other departments. Use the Disinfectant, spray the books, and everything around. People will appreciate it.

By Kaye

November 13, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

I am a school media specialist and I completely agree with Sal. Handling all the books and barcode scanners your hands do “feel” dirty. I wash my hands so many times a day and always the soap is brown when I rinse. It can get down right gross. Kaye

By Lee

November 13, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

I work for a federal health agency; if people would wash there hands and teach their children to do the same we could combat alot of the germs and illnessess that are going around. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen women in our ladies room who DONOT wash there hands after using the bathroom. Or if they do, they wash the tips of there fingers. I don’t get it….filth is a killer and we don’t seem to understand that. You should wash your hands several times a dy for just general purposes.

By Snoqualmie

November 13, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Try working in a jail. Strip searching inmates, fighting with them, being up close and personal with the dregs of society and every vile communicable disease imaginable.

Top it off with being in a sealed environment with them day after day. It isn’t pretty.

By Jeff

November 13, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

I am a diesel mechanic, my hands are so dirty germs dont stand a living chance on me LOL

By ashley

November 13, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

I work in the office for a sanitation company. I get to handle the paper work that the trash truck drivers turn in - LUCKY ME! It’s probably the germiest place I’ve ever worked and my hands are dry and chapped from washing them ALL THE TIME!!

By DeDe

November 14, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

I work in an office with really bright halogen lights. We’ve even had them turn off the middle lights. Gives me a headache every day. Hard to be nice when your head is about to explode. I think all of the headache medication is eating a hole in my stomach. I take 4 to 8 pills aday of different over the counter headache medicine. I love my job, but really hate the office conditions.

By catlady

November 14, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this

I am sure there are sicker jobs, but teachers have sick kids, who should be home, coughing, sneezing, dripping, vomiting, and bleeding on us with abandon. NCLB has not helped especially with GA adopting attendance as a measure of “success”. God help us if bird flu gets started. We will all be dead in 3 weeks. The viral load that teachers are exposed to would rival in amount that of the San Francisco gay bathhouse patrons in the late 1980s.

I am sick and tired of being around children who should be home in bed and not making ME miss work.

By catlady

November 14, 2008 8:15 PM | Link to this

Let me add the “protections” given us (gloves, mostly) are insufficient. A vomiting kid does not wait for you to get your gloves on, etc, and they rarely vomit on your hands, anyway. The school nurse can never be found, and if she is she won’t send them home unless there is active vomiting, fever over 101, or BAD pain and obvious broken bones.

By Texas Pete

November 14, 2008 10:52 PM | Link to this

I had a horrible job with a sh1tty boss earlier this year. After a while I got that disease that caused me to wake up drunk in strange places.

By CallCenter

November 15, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this

Call center work at Comcast is awful. Gotta listen to all of Atlanta complain about bills, and why my TECH is late. If Atlanta step into my shoes, they’ll have more respect for a call center work.

By L-Spice

November 16, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Last year was my first year teaching, and I’ve never been so sick so often in my entire life. I’m young, strong and healthy, but I was sick five time last year where I had to stay home for DAYS on end. That does not count the multiple times I was fighting off sickness and practically wearing a haz-mat suit to work (hey, you only get so many sick days leave per year, and I used them all) since I wasn’t sick enough to merit staying home. I was on more vitamins and immune-boosters last year than can possibly be healthy for any human. And I watched my students sneeze on books and wipe their noses and then try to hand me papers. Ew. No wonder.

By Mike D

November 16, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

To Callcenter complainer,

Comcast is the worst company ever. People only complain about it until they pull the plug and go to Direct TV.

By Anon

November 26, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

Dear Snoqualmie -

Out of all the comments, I feel for you the most.

Anon

By Comcast blows

December 4, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

I agree with Mike D. Comcast is the worst cable service company I have ever dealt with. The worst employees are the callcenter folks. You chose to do a job where you are going to deal with unhappy customers, and I’m sure Comcast has many of those. Callcenter, if you don’t have the personality to deal with it- then quit.

By DMB

December 10, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

I know my job is making me sick. I work in customer support in the health care industry. I take calls all day and our call volume get very high around the holidays. What makes things worst is that I work for a Fortune 18 Company, in my department they are 6 open positions that my Enlightened Despot of a manager has failed to fill since being given the approval to do so 4 months ago. My job is really taking a toll on me. I constantly feel physically and mentally sick and most of all stressed. I am currently working on my Master’s, but will not be finished for another year. I know I should be lucky to have a job, but at this point, I wish I was being laid off. But since they need me and my department, they will not let us go unless all the pharmacies in the US were to shut down.

By ttriplet

December 17, 2008 8:29 PM | Link to this

I love my job but certain individual who is not happy is making me sick. It is hard to work around ungrateful adults who act like children, especially the lazy and in considerate one. We should be happy and blessed to have a job. The job pays good money and it is a desk job not hard or pressured. Can you believe this?

By MissLady

February 25, 2009 6:46 PM | Link to this

MY JOB IS GREAT! I WORK AT THE GROVE AT CARROLLTON AND I ENJOY WHAT I DO. I AM A COLLEGE STUDENT NOW, AND I PRAY THAT MY FUTURE EMPLOYMENT MATCHES THE GREATNESS OF MY CURRENT JOB. PEOPLE IF YOUR JOB IS MAKING YOU SICK FIND SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND MAKE IT YOUR NEW JOB. PURSUE YOUR HAPPINESS!