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Oct. 22, 2009
WORKERS MUST SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE ABOUT DISRUPTIVE WOMAN
DEAR ABBY: I work in a call center with 35 other workers.
Recently our supervisor hired a woman who is mentally ill.
We acknowledge that she has a right to work and, for the
most part, she appears to be capable.
The problem is she hears "voices" speaking to her and often
responds to them. Other times she "hears" co-workers seated
behind her plotting to kill her, which, of course, is not
true. She disrupts those around her by constantly asking if
they can hear what others are saying about her and what she
should do about it.
We have spoken to our supervisor about our concerns. His
answer is, "Just be quiet and it will be OK." We don't dis-
like her -- in fact, we're sympathetic -- but we resent the
position we have been placed in. None of us have been trained
to deal with mental health issues. Have you any suggestions
on how to handle this?
-- UNEASY IN OHIO
DEAR UNEASY: Your supervisor is mistaken. Just being quiet
is not the answer because the voices the woman is hearing
are in her head. She's acting this way because she has gone
off her medication.
This may be a workplace safety issue. Therefore, you and
your co-workers must insist that the supervisor take action
to ensure that she's not posing a threat to all of you.
DEAR ABBY: Would it be inappropriate or tacky if I had a
mother/daughter dance at my daughter's wedding? I know it's
a father/daughter tradition, and my husband will obviously
have his dance with her, but I'd like to have a shot at it,
too.
My reason is purely selfish. Having lost my son two years
ago, I will never experience the mother/son dance we were
supposed to share at his wedding the year he died.
Is this crazy? Horribly inappropriate? Am I being too self-
ish?
-- SENTIMENTAL IN YONKERS
DEAR SENTIMENTAL: Please accept my sympathy for the loss of
your son. The mother/daughter dance is something you need to
discuss with your daughter and her fiance. What you have in
mind is unusual. However, it would be selfish only if you
were to pressure your daughter into it over her objections.
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DEAR ABBY: I am extremely thin and have struggled for years
with eating disorders and an unhealthy relationship with
food. It's difficult for me to go out with family and friends
because everyone watches me -- from what I order to how much
I consume -- and comments on it. If they decide I haven't
eaten enough, they make hurtful comments about my weight.
What I need people to understand is that it is just as hurt-
ful to make fun of someone who is thin by calling him names
such as "Stick" or "Bean Pole" as it is to mock a fat person.
Some of us are thin because we are ill, whether it is physi-
cally or emotionally. Making fun of us is tasteless, hurtful
and unhelpful. -- ROBERT IN N.Y.C.
DEAR ROBERT: I'm glad you wrote, because your letter provides
me with the opening to remind my readers that joking about
someone's appearance isn't clever or funny. It's cruel. While
the target may take those comments with apparent good humor,
no one likes to be ridiculed. And frankly, when it happens,
it demeans the speaker more than the person at which it is
aimed.
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