Today, I got fired from my first job because of the herpes on my lip. It was actually a second degree burn from soup that splashed on to my lips when I was serving it but my manager doesn't believe me. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was fired from my job because I would "scare" the customers. Two days ago, a coworker spilled fry oil onto the grill, causing flames to singe my eyebrows and the front of my hair off. FML
Today, I work at McDonalds. I burned my hand while cleaning their grill and have a 2nd/3rd degree burn from my pinky to my wrist. When told about this, my manager told me that there was "nothing that they could do for me and to tough it out". However I was given a free McFlurry. FML
Today, I was fired from my job as a waitress, all because someone complained there was too much seasoning in their food. As I said, I'm a waitress. This happened the same week I was hired. FML
Today, I was preparing a customer's meal in my restaurant's kitchen, when I choked on my own saliva and went into a coughing fit. The head chef, who's always hated my guts, accused me of trying to hock a loogie into the meal and fired me on the spot. FML
Today, I work at a pizza place and one of my jobs is to spoon crushed red pepper into bags. After I finished this, without thinking to wash my hands first, I used the bathroom. It still burns. FML
Today, I reassured everyone at work that the mark on my lip was just a pimple, not a cold sore. It's actually neither. I, a 21-year-old young woman, slipped while shaving my moustache and sliced off part of my lip. FML
Today, I was fired from the restaurant I work at because I missed my shift. I missed it because I was in the hospital for food poisoning from the meal I ate at work last night. FML
Today, I was cashiering at Walmart, when a customer picked open a cold-sore on her lip before trying to give me her money with the same hand. When I freaked out and refused to take her money, she started screaming and threatening to sue me for "violating the First Amendment." FML
Today, thanks to puberty, I have an acne rash around my mouth. Rumors are already flying around school saying I have herpes. FML
Today, I got my first kiss. He had an allergic reaction to my chapstick, and broke out in hives. FML
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Nik_72 5
OK, so it wasn't herpes. But how can you get fired for that even if it was?
WCARlover 35
Does your boss not realize that over 50% of the population has oral herpes? As long as you are using gloves and not like spitting in food it should not be a problem, even if it was herpes. He sounds very ignorant.
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BryantStone 9
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Wart a terrible situation! I'll see myself out.
Nik_72 5
OK, so it wasn't herpes. But how can you get fired for that even if it was?
momogal 22
Typically in food service, you would simply be sent home until the sore has healed and is no longer contagious. Firing would be far too extreme and would be cause for a wrongful termination suit.
BoxFullOfLazy 25
Alaska isn't a right-to-work state, so OP could file for unemployment and possibly file a termination suit, or even a grievance if they're part of a union. But there are exceptions, and there's not enough info given here to go into them. We need a follow up.
militarybrat 21
5, you can spread oral herpes even when you don't have an outbreak. Hence why so many people have it. Wear a mask that is viral protected and no problem.
Mpii 11
Alot of people have herpes without even knowing. To be fired for it is compleately unfair.
SpyroMello 29
#34 you would know because it's very obvious and painful when touched or scratched at. I would know. I get cold sores.
BananEnigma 24
No, not necessarily. A lot of people carry the virus in their lymph nodes but don't have any outbreak symptoms. It's not that simple.
CrazedSanity 17
Incorrect. I have the virus and have never had an outbreak, which isn't uncommon.
Shade1982 21
@42: The majority of people have it, but you can be either just a carrier or have a good resistance system. It usually only shows up for people who already have a weakened body due to other issues (could be as simple as a common cold).
madscientist_17 15
Yeah via contact. It isn't airborne. Unless he was rubbing food on his face or kissing people, no one could get it. But like OP said it wasn't even a cold sore it was a burn.
wow2mylife 25
stationariztion
WCARlover 35
Does your boss not realize that over 50% of the population has oral herpes? As long as you are using gloves and not like spitting in food it should not be a problem, even if it was herpes. He sounds very ignorant.
militarybrat 21
More than 90% really :)
miss_v_805 3
Actually you can't put herpes in food or drink from spit. It is a skin to skin transmission. It doesn't even live in the blood
swanheart 35
The op doesn't specify exactly what job he or she does. If they are a waiter then maybe the boss thinks customers will be put off seeing a waiter with a visible herpes outbreak serving their food to them and there will be a lot of complaints??
Shade1982 21
@43: Actually, it is transferrable thorugh saliva. "People contract HSV-1 by touching infected saliva, mucous membranes, or skin." Pff, can't even post url's here...
Flyndaran 10
More like 110%. I hate how in each telling the percentage gets higher and higher. The CDC lists around 30% of Americans. I'm 42 and recently got it, but what's FAR worse was that it induced a case of shingles in my nose. Viruses suck.
Flyndaran 10
I'm horribly antisocial and have only kissed one person in over a decade and her blood tests show she doesn't have it. I only could have contracted it by touching something at the local grocery store and touching my face.
Tarlachia 33
That's wrongful termination. If you really want the job back, go speak to a lawyer to pursue this through legal means.
crudeandrudeguy 29
One of those rare situations where you can sue without all those people screaming about everyone being too quick to sue... Yes, I realize America has a lot of at will states
akgirl29 7
Alaska's an at will state. So trying to sue won't get them very far.
Shade1982 21
Actually, being an at-will employment state doesn't really mean much. It's a default state which can (and in many states is) be overridden by contracts, covenants, unions and the like. It also doesn't cover Civil Rights issues... So we really need more info on that, before we can judge...
Zebediabolical 45
I'm wondering how that even happens. Splashing soup on the face, that is.
WCARlover 35
If it's a full pot of it and you put the ladle in too fast, the soup can splash pretty easily
notafoot 8
edit: I didn't mean to make this a reply. Whoops. Serves me right for not paying attention. Where I used to work the soup warmer bucket thingies were in a really unsafe position, so if you got it wrong and didn't get to a sink in time you could end up with some nasty burns. One of the chefs ended up in hospital because she caught it wrong and five gallons or so of soup ended up going all down her front, about 170, 175F. I got it across the palm of my hand once. AFAIK they still haven't changed it. tl;dr - weaponised soup would be a force to be reckoned with
PandaPrincess4 22
Panera? Those soup wells are lethal...
TheNewGuy03 29
All sorts of horrors can happen in the midst of cooking. Oil can pop; soup can spill. This is not to deter people from cooking; I love cooking. Just be careful.
cootiequeen4444 11
they only mentioned burns on their lips though... which would be a weird spot to have your only soup burns.. I mean.. idk.... wouldn't arms and/or torso and/or cheeks/chin also get hit with the splash?
notafoot 8
#50, they might have burns in other places they didn't mention ('cause it's only the herpes impersonator that was relevant to the firing) or protective clothing that saved them. Just because they didn't list them doesn't mean it didn't hit anywhere else. I don't think it's so unlikely as people seem to be implying that you could splash yourself in the face and nowhere else anyway.
captain_hero89 22
do you work as a stamp licker? how can you get fired for that?
SneakyDeath 15
Stamp licker....heh.
buckdharma 38
Was it cream of mushroom?
Arkham_Callabero 15
Is that even remotely relevant to the situation at all
mrjiggles1992 18
How if it was a fungal infection that "joke" would be "funny"
mattyiscool123 26
Totally
TheNewGuy03 29
Relax, guys; it's a sex joke. You can go back to work nitpicking on others' comments.
khadishja 12
the manager is an idiot
morghandi 21
I wasn't aware you could fire someone for a medical condition in the US...
9473820484 17
You can't