You should have sent her home!(longish)

[jerkface11]

Recently one of our employees said she was bitten by a spider. She ignored it for a week then started acting like she was going to fall over and die. Of course since she's a drama queen of the highest order this is normal for her when in even the slightest amount of pain. I told her to tell her mother about it and go to the doctor. Of course she didn't instead she waited another day then her leg started to turn red. Turns out she had blood poisoning and her mother had to take her to the emergency room. This is the angry phone call we received from her mother afterward.

T=one of my managers
AM=angry mother
S=employee bitten by brown recluse!
*ring ring ring*
T: hello this is T how can I help you?
AM: This is S's mom SHE WAS BITTEN BY A BROWN RECLUSE AND HAS BLOOD POISONING!!!
T: OMG is she ok?
AM: (starting to get really mad and going into psycho rant mode) YOU SHOULD HAVE SENT HER HOME SINCE SHE WASN'T FEELING WELL!!!!
T: (not a doctor and therefor not qualified to diagnose mysterious arachnid bites) You shouldn't have sent her to work
AM: (rant deflated upon realizing poor parenting) Um Er Well I didn't know. Anyway the doctor said she can't come back to work for a month.

[Demonoid Phenomenon]

Um Er Well I didn't know.

And YOU did?

[Pixagi]

I love how she suddenly gets all pleasant when your manager points out she's being dumb XD

[draftermatt]

What's to say she would have done anything about it other than going home early and still having to be rushed to the ER?

[workerbee222]

I picked up the phone at work one day, and after finding out I was the store manager, a woman said, "My daughter is sick and I'm told you don't believe her!"

Daughter was 30 years old.

I told her that the problem was that Daughter had called another employee at home, and ordered said employee to call in sick for her. And that I did believe she was sick, which led to another problem: Daughter had described her health as"Excellent" on her application, and since she was constantly complaining about a variety of health problems, that meant she had lied on her app.

[jerkface11]

Oh I forgot to add that the girl said she had told her mother who did nothing about it. Of course neither the girl nor her mother are trustworthy when it comes to one another.

[Sheldonrs]

Am I the only one worried about the spider?!!! It's probably got a bad case of stupid now!!!

[Metody]

I had a similar thing happen to me, spider wise - I was reading on my floor when I must have sort of rolled onto a little spider, because it nipped me on the tummy then skittered off before being smushed. And that was the end of that.

grossness follows. Highlight if you want to read.


...except a week later, what looked like a bite had turned into a pimple thing. And then three days later, the center was black, the size of a US quarter and surrounded by a feverish, red, raised patch about the size of a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup (it was what I had on hand to compare). I booked it to the doctor. She was worried I had a brown recluse bite, but the fact that the pocket of dead and infected flesh was so small convinced her it was just a nasty allergic reaction.


My point is that the physical reactions to a spider bite are not subtle. If you have a strong stomach, try this happy little google search:
. If she was bitten by a brown recluse, she would have had a huge, nasty area of OMG!FuckingBAD! on her. So what the heck was she doing going to work? Most people tend to be a bit worried about, you know, bits dying.

[jerkface11]

When she showed it to me on saturday it was just a lump on her leg with a small bruise in the middle of it. The next day it apparently turned red and started spreading.

[Metody]

Sounds kind of like mine. If it turns red and spreads - just save yourself the trouble and make a doctors appointment. Mine still burns if the water in the shower goes cold.

I didn't get told to stay off work a month, though.

[jerkface11]

I think since it's on her leg she isn't supposed to stand for long periods.

[Sheldonrs]

I think since it's on her leg she isn't supposed to stand for long periods.

How long does her period last usually? LOL!!!

(Sorry, it's Friday and my humor is getting the better of me!)

[Mark Healey]

And people wonder why I hate all things spiderey.

[Seshat]

General rule for any injury: if it isn't healing normally, get thee to a doctor, fast.

[Brightglaive]

I had a friend that was a bit eccentric. We were on a choir retreat (meant to build camraderie and increase singing and listening skills) and sitting in the front room of a timeshare in park city, utah when, a bunch of the girls started screaming.

There was a little bitty spider crawling across the floor and they all freaked out. My friend got really excited. The girls were all screaming "spider!!spider!!" My friend was screaming, "where!? where!?" When he found the spider he quickly scooped it up and popped it in his mouth. He then stuck out his tongue and it looked like the spider was perched on the very tip of it.

He then chewed and swallowed and promptly told us, "mmmmm... tastes like chicken!!"

UUUUGHHHH!!!!!




Brainbleach again!!!! UUUUGHHH!!!