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File this under: Things You Should Never Do In Your Entire Life.
It’s surprising that in this day and age an adult male would do this, but I guess you should never be shocked by anything in the world we live in.
A lady who calls herself Snuffalo shared her story on the website Mumsnet.
Having horrible menstrual cramps, naproxen isn’t touching it, and I remember I have a hot water bottle in my desk drawer – I used it all winter in my freezing office, and a few other people, male and female, have one as well – we have a rule against personal space heaters so it can be nice to have under your desk next to your feet.
Anyway. I fill the hot water bottle, nestle it in my lap, and I’m back to work. My sort-of-supervisor* we’ll call Guy comes over to talk to me about something, notices the hot water bottle, says “there’s no way you’re cold today, are you?” I say “um, no, just for the pain relief”. He looks confused and then literally horrified and then he walks away.
She then learned, to her shock and awe, that the guy actually reported her to HR.
An HR rep (in another office) messaged her:
Less than ten minutes later, I get a Slack message from one of the HR admins (HR is based in another office a few hours away) to say “Guy says you’re not well and should go home, everything OK?”
Alright, maybe a small misunderstanding? Snuffalo will explain what’s up and HR will kindly chuckle at Guy’s gross exaggeration of what was, in reality, a non-issue.
Nope.
The story continues, Snuffalo says, when
“the HR Director calls me and asks me if I can find a meeting room, which I do. She then tells me that I shouldn’t disclose my medical problems to anyone who isn’t part of HR as it can make them uncomfortable. I’m literally shocked, I explain exactly what happened, she says ‘yes I understand, if you’re so unwell you need a hot water bottle you should be home, Guy is extremely uncomfortable and it’s unprofessional.’ I say ‘this is weird, ok, anything else?’ She’s quite breezy and professional – ‘No, that’s all, if you’re feeling better that’s great but if you need to, please do go home, OK bye!'”
Weird, right? And completely inappropriate. Once the story got out, Twitter users weighed in on the incident.
People menstruate, Guy.
Imagine being so immature that you complain to HR about someone on their period ? pic.twitter.com/53LWog94ED
— emilie (@anygirlfriday) July 12, 2017
It got savage…
Oh poor little snowflake Guy. My heart BLEEDS for you. Tit.
— Rachel Hawkins (@ourrachblogs) July 12, 2017
And more savage…
what the hell is this fuckery
— Emmeline May ??♀️ (@EmmelineMayRDPP) July 12, 2017
People rightly questioned WTF was going on in this guy’s head…
also, what was she supposed to do? He asked her about the hot water bottle, she answered. How is that “disclosing medical conditions”??
— Emmeline May ??♀️ (@EmmelineMayRDPP) July 12, 2017
And some hilarious offers started coming his way…
I’ve got some fuck off big sanny pads I can throw Guys way. Proper maternity pads.
— Rachel Hawkins (@ourrachblogs) July 12, 2017
And a good solution to the snowflakery was proposed…
Holy shit! Fine, HR, I’ll take 5 fully paid days off a month to bleed in the comfort of my own home.
— Catherine Rooney-Ward (@Rooneroo) July 12, 2017
Men offered their support as well.
Photo Credit: Twitter,PeteBluebird
Yeah… you’re reading it right.
Photo Credit: Twitter,PeteBluebird
And others thought that HR handled the whole situation extremely poorly.
I’m the Head of HR in my company, I’d have told Guy to stop being foolish and get back to work.
— Matt Buckland (@ElSatanico) July 12, 2017
Can you believe this s**t?
No, no they can’t.
I can’t believe the way HR handled it tbh
— emilie (@anygirlfriday) July 12, 2017
It’s nice to see a bunch of women, and men, coming to this lady’s defense. Good work, humans! And Guy, come on. Grow up.
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