Dont Make me Throw Up on your Shoes!

[Red_Dazes]

More like Kill my faith in the human race....hehe.

Thanks! I'll definitely check it out.

yeah I carry Glucose tabs on my person religiously now... just for such occasions.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Don't let stupid people make these sorts of decisions for you.

I'm hypoglycemic, and I know exactly what happens when you crash. I'm one of these hypoglycemics that becomes extremely belligerent. I can't think, and I can't function. There's no arguing. I crash that hard, I'm sick to my stomach, too. Not sure why that happens, but it sure does.

Hell, last time it happened bad was at Kinko's and I was so messed up I couldn't even tell anyone what was wrong because I couldn't form a coherent thought and make my mouth express it. Thank God for H, my "work husband" there who is type 1 diabetic and knew exactly what was wrong and what to do.

But that is some serious stuff. If someone is too stupid to do the right thing by you, you just ignore them and do what you need to do. It doesn't matter if you get fired at this point, this is your LIFE we are talking about.

If this sort of thing is happening to you a lot, you need to think about carrying hard candy like Life Savers, or of course the Glucose Tabs. Slip one under your tongue if you are crashing, the sugar will hit immediately. It will buy you some time to see to yourself.

[wagegoth]

I was hypoglycemic while working for Nordstrom. I had learned to always eat protein with every meal, stay off high carbs and take chromium picolinate every day. I didn't get sick (a little nausea) or belligerant, I would get the shakes, dizziness, collapse, pass out, headaches, bleah. But sticking with protein every meal and taking chromium picolinate every day got me through and got me regulated. The only time I normally had a soda was when my blood sugar was down. I'd slam a soda, then go eat when the sugar kicked in.

[SnapAddict218]

Hell, last time it happened bad was at Kinko's and I was so messed up I couldn't even tell anyone what was wrong because I couldn't form a coherent thought and make my mouth express it.

You know, I wonder if I may not have this problem. A few weeks ago I was being register trained at the shoe store and I think I experianced a 'crash'. Kinkoid- I was the same way-my boss was getting really snotty because suddenly I was not 'with it'. I sounded like a drunk when I tried to talk. She kept asking if I really wanted to learn this, and if so then I better 'snap out of it'....I managed little moany grunts but that was it-had I not been clingling to the counter I would have been on the ground. She was furious that I wouldn't address customers-but I had the same problem-I couldn't form a coherent thought AND make it come out of my mouth hole. She finally got pissed enough that she sent me to break. After a cookie and some tea (the coffee kiosk was the closest thing) I was A-OK.

I mean completly different. Like a new person.

Is that what this is called? I'm not just a lazy wuss?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yeah, Snap, that pretty much sums it up. When your sugar gets too low, one of the first things that stops working is your brain. Really. That's why you can't form a coherent thought. Your brain is misfiring. Not everyone gets mean (I do, and I know some others do, but it's not always that way.) Sometimes you get "drunk", panicked, hyper (because adrenaline kicks in when your sugar gets very low), any number of flakey responses.

It can look and feel like you are drunk. Other symptoms might be headache, sweating, nausea, dizziness, vertigo, and overwhelming sleepiness. I'm sure there are others, this is me I'm talking about. Low sugar can also trigger migraines.

More people suffer from this than realize it.

The advice to lay off sugar and carbs is dead on. Fat and protein stablizes your insulin/sugar levels. Eat more of that, don't go too long without eating, and lay off sugary, starchy foods. The sugar stimulates your pancreas to produce more insulin...the absolute last thing you want.

That's the bad news. The good news is that you can literally get high as a kite off of your food. You eat after a bad crash, it's like doing a bowl.

Some people call this condition pre-diabeties because it's a sign your body isn't managing your glucose levels well. Get on top of that before you end up with type two diabeties.

Diabeties does run in my family, as does hypoglycemia.

[PepperElf]

That's the bad news. The good news is that you can literally get high as a kite off of your food. You eat after a bad crash, it's like doing a bowl.

yeah but it sounds like a bad price to pay for getting legally high.

but back on topic... i hate those people who enforce dumbass rules like that cos they suddenly know more than the doctor knows.

even the military has them. heard about a guy with a doctor's note (chit) stating he could wear white socks in uniform for x amount of days to help clear up his athlete's foot. one woman (an E7) saw his socks and got *furious* and took his chit, ripped it up and ordered him to go put on black socks. Not sure if anything was done to her, but it wouldn't have been done publicly anyway. but still... what does she know about medicine? nothing. it wasn't her job or her right to do that.

[Bosch]

Wraith I remember a court case in the laste 90's early 2000's where someone was fired for going to the restroom when their boss told them they couldn't, filed suit, and won. The judge was so pissed at the employer it was funny. The judge declared that going to the restroom was a right, not something that could be delegated by bosses.
If your mother wanted to she could have her place of employment strung up by its toe nails.

There was one suit like that against Pacific Bell(the phone company) with their call center reps and operators not being allowed to go unless they were on their 15min breaks.

[Mordecai]

i hate those people who enforce dumbass rules like that cos they suddenly know more than the doctor knows.

even the military has them. heard about a guy with a doctor's note (chit) stating he could wear white socks in uniform for x amount of days to help clear up his athlete's foot. one woman (an E7) saw his socks and got *furious* and took his chit, ripped it up and ordered him to go put on black socks. Not sure if anything was done to her, but it wouldn't have been done publicly anyway. but still... what does she know about medicine? nothing. it wasn't her job or her right to do that.

I think it takes a special kind of egotism to assume that you're more knowledgeable than a licensed M.D when it comes to another person's physical condition. I mean, what are they thinking when they try to enforce these ridiculous rules that obviously aren't rational? "Sure, I may not have gone to medical school for God knows how many years, BUT I'M A SUPERVISOR, DAMNIT!! DODGE STRATUS, !!!!ELEVENTY!!!"(Sorry for borrowing that reference)

[KrytenKoro]

I actually did get fired for having a tract infection, in a manner of speaking.

Get this. I was on probation because I had arranged a schedule change with the shift supervisor, and I had specifically asked her whether the change took effect immediately or in two weeks time (the orientation lecture had stressed that we had to give two weeks notice before a schedule change took effect). Even though she said yes, apparently she was wrong. Not only that, but for two weeks none of my supervisors saw fit to mention "Hey, you're not actually scheduled to work today, but you've been missing your scheduled shifts". First I heard that my schedule had already taken effect was when I was sent a suspension e-mail.

But I managed to get my demerits reduced by three by explaining the situation to my supervisor. Ignoring that I had ''still come into work, and that it was obvious I had been misinformed'', I was still at the situation where being late by five minutes just once would be enough to get me fired.

But I wasn't. The final day that semester I was scheduled to work, I had an infection. I had to keep going to the bathroom, and the section supervisor had even recommended I go home. I notified ''three'' supervisors that I could not continue to work, since I was basically having to stay in the bathroom, and that I didn't feel right getting paid for sitting.

The next day, I got an e-mail that I had not provided notification of my absence, and that I was fired.

When I tried to protest this to the chief supervisor for the dining court, she claimed that it was due to continuing bad behavior. Right, because all those merit points and compliments I had been getting from my supervisor were totally for the atrocious service I had been giving. In fact, the only time I had gotten a criticism? That same supervisor saying I looked like "a cheap girl trying to give it up at Spring Break" for not having the top button of our uniform shirts buttoned up:

1) I'm a guy.
2) We wear a shirt underneath anyway.

I wish I could say I was making this up, I really do. My friends still think I'm lying about it, and ignore me when I try to show them the e-mails from the supervisors.

[RootedPhoenix]

<snip>
1) I'm a guy.
2) We wear a shirt underneath anyway.

I wish I could say I was making this up, I really do. My friends still think I'm lying about it, and ignore me when I try to show them the e-mails from the supervisors.

>.<;;; for your employers. Yeesh.

I myself have migraines if I don't eat correctly or often enough. And these aren't little wussy things, no, they're 2 day long resistant-to-treatment hoodlums that won't leave until they're ready to. If some boss tried to pull this crap on me, they would be in for a and (and I'm normally not violent.)

My thought is that these people have evidently never been truly sick, or else they wouldn't be like this.

[GingerBiscuit]

I was told by my manager that we weren't allowed to drink water unless we were on our scheduled breaks. So I showed him the evidence that drinking too much water suddenly can mess up your electrolyte balance and cause horrendous problems. Suddenly we are allowed to drink throughout the day.

[Red_Dazes]

We are not allowed to have water bottles on the floor at anytime. I think its rediculous... since it means that when Your FR Attendent .... You cant get to the drinking fountian.... meaning....you guessed it... no Water.
The only way we can have a water bottle is with a doctors note. and even then they give you shit for it.

[BaristaTrav]

We are not allowed to have water bottles on the floor at anytime. I think its rediculous... since it means that when Your FR Attendent .... You cant get to the drinking fountian.... meaning....you guessed it... no Water.
The only way we can have a water bottle is with a doctors note. and even then they give you shit for it.

Again.. that's horsesh*t.. you need to contact your HR dept. And if that doesn't work, find a lawyer. Your employer is violating a good half dozen OSHA laws just for starters.

They pull sh*t like this because most corporate worker drones don't know their rights or get intimated into bending over and taking it. There is legal precedent to keep them from doing this type of stuff. You need to make some calls.

[Skeksin]

Mmmmmm. English Toffee Glucose tablets. Or at least as nummy as the chalky things can get.

[purplecat41877]

Yesterday, at work, my vision went blurry, I was shaking, and I could barely stand. Luckily, my service desk coworker let me into the cashroom where my drink and crackers were. I only had a couple crackers left since I'd eaten most of the ones I brought up ealier and my service desk coworker told me to take my time in eating the crackers. I also had a couple glucose tablets, some of my Gatorade, and a piece of hard strawberry candy and my service desk coworker told me that I could bring my drink to the register if I needed to.