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I highly doubt taking a person to the bathroom is in your job description, so ignore it & let him pee in his pants. If he cannot walk or move independently to the bathroom, then he should not be in the office. Maybe this is a ploy to get him on long term disability.
Not to mention that even for trained home health workers, a 400 pound person is a 2-person transfer because that is just too much weight for one person to safely handle without injury. That is just a whole lot of worker’s compensation claims there if other workers are asked to handle his and get injured. It seems like he is scamming the system if he can transfer on his own.
OP, I don't know what profession you are in; but if you are not a RN or a HCA (Health Care Aide), and not hired by some company to take care of him, you don't have any obligation to help him with anything like elevating his legs and bringing him to the bathroom. That's not your job. His wife is insane to say such thing to you or any of the staff there at your workplace.
Even if you were a RN, HCA, working in a care center, you would not have to take care of a co-worker like that. He comes to the workplace to work to earn money, not to have somebody to take care of him, so he just sits there and gets a paycheck every two weeks or twice a month. And it is the company's responsibility to deal with his personal, physical problems.
I understand how stressful it is when you have to do your job plus the job of someone else. And that person does not do much and gets pay the same as you or even more. In addition, you have to babysit that person. It really burns you out. From what you wrote, that man won't be there much longer. In the meantime, be patient, calm and professional. Every dog has his day.
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I will likely never leave this employer. Our product is the best in the world, I am at the top of my game, with only more space to rise.
This is a right-to-work state, but with this guy coming back from disability, it would not be legal to not let him have his former position. I am fairly certain my boss is just waiting on him to screw up, or lie on his timesheet again, and then he can legally get rid of him.
Like I said, it's just a rant. There's nothing I can do about the situation except wait it out.
You cannot be forced to provide for his needs. Simply refuse. If he needs reasonable accomodations then the company will have to provide them. But making another co-worker take him to the bathroom is not reasonable.
If he can't work he needs to be on either short term or more likely long term disability or social security disabilty. The fact that the company keeps him on is ridiculous. The request of the wife for his coworkers to act as Nurse techs is even more ridiculous. This company even if they are as good as you say needs to get their act together and deal with this.
He must have some kind of a hook. Do you know what it is?
He has no hook. My boss has just been a softie for too long, and felt sorry for him, until he found out everything he hadn't done, and that we almost missed a delivery date because of it. The big boss hasn't been in the office much either (traveling to new customers), so since the coworker never told him, nobody knew, til he was gone. Then the sh*t hit the fan.
This company even if they are as good as you say needs to get their act together and deal with this.
Wholeheartedly agree.
We each have a team working for us, and we feel this is bad morale for everyone, to allow this to continue.
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