What would you do in this situation?

[Carols Clucks]

if your bite is getting swollen you should go to the doctor. come on, carols clucks has to be kidding or drunk. that is terrible advice. a limb is more important than any job and you show every sign for infection. get some help.

Sorry if you think I am drunk, but I think your reply was rude and out of touch. FYI I have worked in management for over 30 years and have always been promoted. I actually do have some insight on how bosses/corporate might think.

The OP has stated they have medical issues that have kept them from working and the job has excellent health benefits. Something the OP will need long beyond a spider bite. And something the OP will loose if they do not go to work.

Sorry, but that is the way much of the real world works. Calling in and saying you have a spider bite makes you sound like a slacker and going to earn you a write up and likely your job. Going to work, showing that your intent was to be at work as expected. Once your bosses see the problem, they do not want you to become sicker on the job and will need to send you home. Very different end result from loosing your job over not taking a drive in to work.

 

[chickened]

if your bite is getting swollen you should go to the doctor. come on, carols clucks has to be kidding or drunk. that is terrible advice. a limb is more important than any job and you show every sign for infection. get some help.

Whether at home or work I am sure the OP will know to go to a doctor. Some of us have a job to protect and do not get free healthcare or run to the doctor for everything.

OP., go to work do not call in and show the boss your foot if you have to. If your boss is any kind of a good boss he will probably send you home so they are not liable for aggravating your injury.

 

[onedoodle3]

Went to work and had to tell the boss about it 1/2 way through the shift. He called the EMT's down from the gate and had them look at it. They put some medicine and a bandage on it and I went back to work. Doc is calling in a prescription strength antibiotic ointment for me to put on it. It looks a little better and my toes are back to normal.

I have a very red, angry looking thingie on the top of my foot. It looks kinda like a boil only with 2 little puncture marks. Anyway, it's ok.

They are strict about the 2 hour rule. There was a wreck in front of my home back in 2005 just as I was getting ready to leave for work. I have to leave an hour before I have to be there. The wreck blocked the road. There was no other way for me to go. I went running across the field and yelled to my mom to call work and tell them I would be late, that I was at the scene of a bad wreck (by this time both vehicles were on fire and a teenage girl was trapped in the car) and would be there as soon as I could. Several people I work with also got held up due to this wreck. My mom called and told them what was going on. She was informed by the supervisor on duty at the time, that if I was not there at 5 minutes till 11, I would be given a written reprimand and it would go in my permanent folder. My mom had my son come tell me this and I told him to tell mom to tell the supervisor I guess she'd better get to writing! They don't care if you witness a wreck, a house fire, anything! If you are late, you get written up. I got written up last month because I had to go to the ER in an ambulance and I didn't report off until 20 minutes before the start of my shift. I was so sick, I could not call anyone. My mother had checked on me and found me passed out and called the ambulance. Anyway, sorry for the long post. That is how my work is. But I put up with everything because there aren't any great paying jobs around here. Especially with the insurance. I see things from management's side and the workers side. Not everyone does.

Thanks for all the comments, and prayers. Hopefully the antibiotic ointment will help it heal quickly. Now, I must find an exterminator and have my house sprayed. I hate spiders!!!

 

[zazouse]

Sorry but ointment is not gonna help a spider bite.
hope it gets better on it's own, you will know in a few days if it swells up the size of a baseball, then you need some antibiotics to stop a possible staff infection, take it from someone that has been there twice in a year, first time i almost died, second time i went to the doctor when it started swelling.

Hope it gets better soon

 

[onedoodle3]

Thanks. I plan on keeping a very close eye on it for the next several days.

 

[Henny peeny]

I have a qustion

if you go into work and tell them you were bit by a spider and you came in anyhow because you didn't want to miss any work would they take this in favor also telling them your foot feels like it is wedged. you can't afford to loose any work ut it may be inpossible to work with the shoe on what do THEY think you should do?

I have another question a dumb one do you have a unoin?

I personally would go in inform them what had happened and I will try to stay in BUT if it gets to the point I can't tolerate it I will have to go to the doctor

another question also dumb


do you live where there are black widows just in thinging here

since you don't know what bit you it could of been a black widow and it could be bad I hear they are awful beast and you need to see a doctor or go to the hospital like now. If tyou go to the doctors and calll from there and tell them you were bit by a black widow you think then maybe you will not be fired

I know I am wishy washy but I am trying to come up with something you will not be fired from


I know what you mean about good insurance my husband has it and I would debate this as to what to do. I am terrribly sorry so many thoughts I have I don't think this is to good of answers oh


here is the best I can think of for youn to read to know what kind of spider bit you

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/first-aid-spider-bites/FA00048

click the link and see if you nhave any of the symtoms

I try

Rhayden

 

[Stephanie739]

I'm glad to hear your foot is improving.

They write you up regardless of the reasoning, but if they did evaluate your unscheduled time off, they will at least know what happened. This makes good business sense. Someone can easily call in and say they are caught in traffic due to an accident when there is no accident, etc. That is why it was a good decision to report to work. Otherwise you would have been written up because of a bug bite...now you have supervisors who have witnessed the extent of your injury.

If you didn't show up, and there was no serious injury, they would have had reason to be irritated and/or angry.

 

[sumi]

I think your employers are full of nonsense. Did you get a letter from your doctor explaining your situation and that it may not always be possible to let them know you'll be unable to report in time?
Keep an eye on your spider bite and go see a doctor if it swells. I got bitten on a friday, it made a small blister and by sunday only did it really kick in and I got very sick. And I stayed sick for 3 months!

 

[onedoodle3]

I have a qustion

if you go into work and tell them you were bit by a spider and you came in anyhow because you didn't want to miss any work would they take this in favor also telling them your foot feels like it is wedged. you can't afford to loose any work ut it may be inpossible to work with the shoe on what do THEY think you should do?

I have another question a dumb one do you have a unoin?

I personally would go in inform them what had happened and I will try to stay in BUT if it gets to the point I can't tolerate it I will have to go to the doctor

another question also dumb


do you live where there are black widows just in thinging here

since you don't know what bit you it could of been a black widow and it could be bad I hear they are awful beast and you need to see a doctor or go to the hospital like now. If tyou go to the doctors and calll from there and tell them you were bit by a black widow you think then maybe you will not be fired

I know I am wishy washy but I am trying to come up with something you will not be fired from


I know what you mean about good insurance my husband has it and I would debate this as to what to do. I am terrribly sorry so many thoughts I have I don't think this is to good of answers oh


here is the best I can think of for youn to read to know what kind of spider bit you

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/first-aid-spider-bites/FA00048

click the link and see if you nhave any of the symtoms

I try

Rhayden

Believe me, there are NO dumb questions! lol Yes, we have a union, but they are worthless. I am a member of the union but EVERY grievance that is filed is lost. We have no representative from our national headquarters. Management runs the plant without regard to worker injury or sickness. If you miss, you are written up. We have a guy that is a volunteer fireman that was driving into work at 6 one morning, witnessed a house on fire, stopped and got the family out, helped put the fire out, and came into work after smelling like smoke, and he was given a 3 day suspension for being late. Never mind he had saved a family from burning. I just go in and try to keep to myself and not draw attention to myself. I have FMLA papers to get filed out by my doctor that I will be taking tomorrow morning when I get off work. Hopefully that will help keep me from being fired due to having to miss for my ongoing medical problem. It will cover my medical tests as well.

Thanks everyone for your comments and concerns. I really appreciate them.

 

[Boyd]

A two hour call in, as you now know, isn't always possible. It would be easy to list all manner of things that might happen during that time that would prevent you from going to work. The rule must be more detailed than that and allow for emergencies.

You work in industry so, I assume, you have some first aid facilities and trained personnel on hand at the factory. Would it be appropriate to go to work, report straight to first aid and take it from their?

I'm a 1st responder at work. Trained in cuts, bruises, bug bites, spider bites, snake bites, heart attacks and strokes. My advice? Go to work, look up my counterpart. I'm not a doctor or a p.a. but my boss's respect my advice and if you show up, you generally won't get written up for being too sick/hurt to work. I've been bitten by a black widow when I was 10, not a picnic, but not a game ender either. Makes you sick (at least it did me) so if it was a bw or a Brown R L I would worry, if another, let my counterpart make the call, don't get in trouble, and keep your job. If a Black Widow or Brown Recluse, let the ER doc's make the call when they write your absentiesm note.