*~UPDATE~*Venting; building security guard harrasing me about using the handicap door
So ladies, I just reached 23 weeks today, officially 6 months pregnant. The building I work in has really heavy doors so I always use the handicap door, u know the doors that open on their own when u press a button. So today I walk into work and the security guard has the nerve to tell me not to use the handicap door. When I explain that the doors are too heavy for me to open, she tells me to use one of the other doors because it lets air out when we use that one. wtf?! So of course, me just being me, when I come in again this time with ton of things in my hand, I use, u guessed it, the handicap door. This bia then asks me what my name is so I tell her and walk off saying "good day to you". and by the time I get off the elevator, she's on the phone with the receptionists complaining about me using the damn handicap door and asking her what company do I work for. So I march back downstairs and ask her what her name is and what company does she work for. She gets an attitude and tells me her name, the company, and her title (like I give two shits). I just said thank u with a big grin on my face and walked off. As I'm getting off the elevator again, she's on the phone with the receptionists asking what company i work for etc. The receptionists stops me to ask and I simply told her to tell that lady to stop harassing me and walked away. As soon as I got back to my desk, I was on the phone with HER boss, from HER company issuing a complaint about HER. I know I look really young, but lady you picked the wrong one, because since u didn't know, not only am I a grown ass woman, I am a pregnant grown woman who can use a damn handicap door if I need too and u will not be disrespecting me. Her boss assured me to use whatever door I need to, apologized, and told me that she would be reprimanded and apologizing to me as well. fuckin bitch...go report that
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way to take care of urself and baby! im glad u took care of it!
@vanalkr exactly! her reason for telling me not to use a handicap door is retarded. So because the door lets air out, isn't that what happens when u open any door and are we now going to tell all the people in the building with handicaps to not use it because of air? wtf lady go sit down somewhere. U r overstepping your job description. I had to do something because I refuse to be harrassed by this lady everyday when I come to work.
@Deni_b & @angieahrens They should start making handicap parking spaces for pregnant women and women with small infants. we certainly do have a handicap and its not easy to have to carry a frickin car seat with you from the end of the parking lot to the store and back. all states should have that imo.
aaahhh!!! i go there just so i dont have to waddle my fat ass in the heat too far!
btw the receptionists in my building apologized on behalf of the security guard saying she didn't know I was pregnant. She can go suck a fat one because it shouldn't matter if I'm pregnant or not, she didn't even inquire as to why I had to use teh handicap door. She just looked at me thought I was young and she could spew random orders at me. I mean her explanation as to why not to use it doesn't even make sense! I swear these fake cops take their jobs way too seriously
Just a sidenote, I work at a hospital and every once in awhile we get email reminders to NOT use the handicap door because it lets the heat/air out! Your post just made me think of this. But they are referring to the actual lazy people who have no reason to "push the button".
You are exactly right about pregnancy being a handicap in its own right. It slows us down more than usual for an extended period of time. Most people just don't see it that way, sadly.
@excitedforbaby thanks!! lol I've honestly never heard of someone telling someone not to use a handicap door. This lady acted like I was threat to national security or something. I'm about 5'4, 120lbs (baby bump and all). Now she just looks like an ass telling a pregnant lady not to use a handicap door. She really had nothing better to do. She was on the phone with the receptionist as I was getting off the elevator saying "yea there's a girl getting off the elevator right now, yea I'm watching her get off right now, she used the handicap door." like really lady get a life!!
@baileygoose Thanks hun! I work in a very stress free environment and I just couldn't see myself going through that everyday when I show up for work. Those doors are really heavy. I was happy to discover the handicap door and have used them everyday since I started working there and not once has anyone said anything to me like that. not saying that there aren't perfectly healthy people who use it, but since u work at a hospital how do u differentiate the lazypeople from the sick? How could u know? I've never heard of that before.
@blueberrysmom, @rubi1989, @mandac10 Thanks ladies!! ;-)
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