To the woman who....

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

puked on the carpet over by apparel:

I am told you're pregnant, and understand that having a bun in the oven can put your body through changes you don't like or understand, and one of those changes can be emptying the contents of your stomach in a violent and forceful manner.

However, when your morning sickness causes you to vomit your carrot-y salad onto our carpeted floor, please have the decency to seek out an employee to tell them about it. Actually, you didn't even need to do this, because one was nearby and heard you horking.

And then what did you do? Explain to her that everything's cool; you're preggers and suffer from morning sickness, and you just upchuck every now and then. And then continued shopping, perusing flip flops and purses. Classy.

Because this store's staff is 90% female, and every woman working was either unavoidably detained or too squicked out to clean up your mess, I got pulled off the truck to do it for you. I had to spend 45 minutes screwing around with a mop and some aerosol carpet cleaner, because we don't have a carpet shampooer and are thus rather unsuited to cleaning up liquid spills on carpet.

Oh, and I'm also told this isn't the first chuff-and-run you've pulled here. How about when you've delivered your baby and are back to work, I swing by and tell you "Oh, don't mind me, I have unpredictable, uncontrollable, projectile diarrhea, but it's cool. Uh oh, you might not want to stand too close to me right now..."

And as an added bonus, thank you to the HBA/Grocery specialist for copping an attitude with me when I wouldn't help you with a carryout when I was on my way out the door 10 minutes late to begin with. If it weren't for me, you'd be cleaning up that puddle of barf, fluttery stomach or not. Oh, and impugning my manhood when I told you no was an extra classy touch.

No love to the both of you, but much sincerity:
Irv

[bainsidhe]

Interesting. In all the posts commenting on HBA specialists lack of work ethic, she has yet to obtain an one-of-a-kind IPF nickname. Now how sad is that?

[blas]

Give him time, he will.

Sorry you had to deal with that, Irv. I swear, only hazmat certified people should have to clean up bodily fluids.....oh frack, actually, no. People should have to clean up after themselves.

I lost any sympathy I would have had for the mother to be when she continued shopping as if nothing had happened.

[Kogarashi]

I lost any sympathy I would have had for the mother to be when she continued shopping as if nothing had happened.

Very much this.

My morning sickness has gotten worse with each subsequent kid, and yet I've never had one of those on-the-floor-where-I-stood moments, and I've certainly never blown it off and continued on my merry way like nothing happened. That lady's just a poor excuse for a person.

[Kisa]

I have 3 pregnant ladies (well 2 ladies, one girl) at my work. One gets no morning sickness, but had weird leg pressure. The girl is a moody bitch but I think that's just her personality (shhh, I never said that). The 3rd one gets sick often, sometimes at work, but is very professional about it. She will take a garbage can to the back of the store where she dish sink is, change the bag, drink some water, wash her hands and go back to whatever she was doing. She never upchucked on the kitchen floor, shouted "I'm pregnant so it's cool!" and went back to work. That's just gross and uncalled for

[HappyFun Ball]

Having had 4 children, I know ALL about the sickness ( I left out morning because mine and a lot of preggers don't just get it in the morning).. And there was one time I spewed in the middle of the thrift store ( I did go to the bathroom, but they keep the bathroom doors locked and I was on my way back to the front to get the key when my stomach contents got away from me).. I apologized profusely and I asked them for things to clean it up with, they said they would get it, I kept saying I would get it up since I made the mess. I gave the poor kid who was assigned to clean up my mess 40$ and I apologized quite a bit more to him.

Doing the puke and run thing is SO wrong! I am sorry you had to deal with that mess.

[SuperRTL]

Puke and run is wrong and disgusting. I had 24/7 sickness and could locate a trash bin in a second. Just cause you're preggers doesn't mean you're a princess. Control yourself or be where you need to be if you can't.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

That is just NASTY. I was terribly ill while pregnant and spent most of my time at home for that reason...one day I did start to lose it at Wally World but I got to the bathroom in time. I can't imagine just letting someone else clean up my mess...I would have totally done it myself or at least told someone and asked what I could do to make it right. Some people just have no feelings for anyone but themselves. I feel sorry for that woman's future kid!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Oh, and this came not too long after the fart detector who emerged from the women's public bathroom to proclaim it filthy, and again since none of the women wanted to venture inside to assess the damage, they just paged me.

This happens way too often. There was not a thing wrong with that bathroom. No poop smears on toilet seats or floors, no used tampons ripening in the disposal bins, no paper or water on the floor.

Sometimes it really sucks to have a penis. The front end uses the hell out of me.

Interesting. In all the posts commenting on HBA specialists lack of work ethic, she has yet to obtain an one-of-a-kind IPF nickname. Now how sad is that?

I used to call her Kelly Bundy, but I didn't think it caught on. I may need to go back to that.

[batmoody]

We had someone puke next to the donut case in the bakery a few days ago. The store manager had to clean it up though because employees aren't supposed to claen/handle bodily fluids. It must vary by state....I would have puked myself if I was made to clean that up.

[PepperElf]

Oh, and impugning my manhood when I told you no was an extra classy touch.

not to mention in violation of quite a few HR rules I'm betting.

[Andara Bledin]

Oh, and impugning my manhood when I told you no was an extra classy touch.

not to mention in violation of quite a few HR rules I'm betting.

This. I'd report that particular item.

Plus the whole, "You do it 'cause you're a man" thing is also a form of sexual discrimination, so you might want to bring that up, too. Not in an, "I'm gonna sue you for it," way, but in an, "Oh, hey, just so you know, this is a problem and you should deal with it before someone else says something and you get bit in the ass over it," manner.

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