Just pop emotion. : Bitchy work e-mails are fun! So is insubordination!

Bitchy work e-mails are fun! So is insubordination!

Long story short: I started at my job on June 6th. I immediately had severe allergy symptoms. They began construction on bathrooms, allergies increased tenfold, to the point where I couldn’t even bear to be in the building. They found mold. LOTS of mold. I opened a worker’s compensation claim. The cause of the mold is a shitty roof on a shitty building. This roof, SIX MONTHS LATER, is still not repaired. I am still having allergic reactions to being in the building, as are two other co-workers. There have been two complaints filed with OSHA. No one else that has space in the building has worked in the building for months. We are the ONLY people still showing up to this toxic heap every day. Yet, our executive director says that because two of the three floors test clear, we all should be working from the office and not from home.

I disagreed. And I let her know:

Just because a day of testing may result in a “safe” status of the building, this does absolutely nothing to speak to the potentially serious long-term effects of *excessively* and repeatedly being exposed to mold.

My greatest concern now is that the second floor bathrooms are unfinished with ceiling and inner walls exposed. As the roof is still not finished, the bathrooms that already were the most intensely effected by mold are now demolished and still under the same damaged roof. As the rain has set in, this will only create more mold. This is, under no means, remediated. I had itching, splotches, swelling, and ear/nose/throat/eye irritation as well while in the building. I have taken photos of the exposed bathroom and the allergic responses I had today.

To think the building is is a safe, appropriate work environment where we should be expected to work is not only ignorant, but reckless and demeaning as we have all expressed symptoms.

BAM.