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I worked at an insurance company for over 5 years. Reading medical records was part of the job and lots of my coworkers had prior work experience in the medical

I worked at an insurance company for over 5 years. Reading medical records was part of the job and lots of my coworkers had prior work experience in the medical field. One of my teammates has been in EMS. And these people were shockingly oblivious to the health impacts of their immediate environment. I cleared out old papers from an empty cubicle next to mine because it was exacerbating my respiratory issues. The person whose cubicle was on the other side of that cubicle had been to see a doctor three times for some infection. After I removed the papers, their infection finally cleared up. They seemed to see zero connection between the two things. On another occasion, work crews came in to do work in an underutilized section covered in dust. My team was right next to all this and one of my coworkers was coughing all day, obviously in reaction. I said something sympathetic and she said "Oh, I guess that could be why I'm coughing. It hadn't occurred to me they might be related."

eurticket 4y ago
You worked with people that didn't want to complain.
- DoreenMichele 4y ago
  The person on the opposite side of the cubicle I cleaned out was my immediate lowest level boss. She had serious respiratory problems herself. If she realized the papers were making her sick, there's absolutely no reason she couldn't have decided to clean out that cubicle herself and she could have been more obvious about it than I was due to her supervisory position. She was responsible for the team. She could have taken responsibility for the "waste" of papers being left to rot in that empty cubicle. I did it more surreptitiously because I had no such authority. I spent a week or more getting forms and envelopes out of that cubicle whenever I needed forms and envelopes and quietly throwing out the ones so covered in dust and bent out of shape that they were no longer usable. Perhaps the other person simply didn't want to complain but my immediate boss went three times for antibiotics and then the last round finally worked "coincidentally" after I cleaned out the cubicle between hers and mine. If she knew the papers were why she was not getting better and just didn't want to complain, then she was too big of a doormat to deserve any kind of supervisory position at all. I doubt that's the explanation.
scotty79 4y ago
> And these people were shockingly oblivious to the health impacts of their immediate environment. I think if they weren't most of them would switch careers immediately.

eurticket 4y ago

You worked with people that didn't want to complain.

DoreenMichele 4y ago
The person on the opposite side of the cubicle I cleaned out was my immediate lowest level boss. She had serious respiratory problems herself. If she realized the papers were making her sick, there's absolutely no reason she couldn't have decided to clean out that cubicle herself and she could have been more obvious about it than I was due to her supervisory position. She was responsible for the team. She could have taken responsibility for the "waste" of papers being left to rot in that empty cubicle. I did it more surreptitiously because I had no such authority. I spent a week or more getting forms and envelopes out of that cubicle whenever I needed forms and envelopes and quietly throwing out the ones so covered in dust and bent out of shape that they were no longer usable. Perhaps the other person simply didn't want to complain but my immediate boss went three times for antibiotics and then the last round finally worked "coincidentally" after I cleaned out the cubicle between hers and mine. If she knew the papers were why she was not getting better and just didn't want to complain, then she was too big of a doormat to deserve any kind of supervisory position at all. I doubt that's the explanation.

scotty79 4y ago

> And these people were shockingly oblivious to the health impacts of their immediate environment. I think if they weren't most of them would switch careers immediately.