What if you knew your mgr called his wife to bring in her prescription drugs

For a co-worker who had a migraine, and traveled from home bringing the drugs, and you witnessed it being handed to the co-worker. The co-worker took the drugs and was miraculously better an hour later.
We are talking prescription drugs here....I had regular aspirin on hand.

The mgr is an SOB of the worst sort who just got you (me) fired for bogus crap.

Would you be tempted to spend your own money for a lie detector test to send to HR or would you keep your trap shut and know you may not be able to find another job in this economy and may end up losing your house as a result.

Yep, I am a tad bitter. If I had done shared prescription drugs, I would have been gone a LONG time ago.

If it were me i'd skip it - if they helped the coworker in pain - they helped. Migraines are horrible.


I know you're angry right now - but i'd let this one go. Take some time off - get the unemployment worked out, and regroup for the next job.

Unless you've been fired for cause, they can't "not allow" unemployment. That's not their call to make.

from the State. At least that's how it workds here in Georgia.

Not the company's decision.

for a prescription...

I'd let it go.

None of my business.

That's all I have.

I think I am failing to see the scandal in all of this.

NON-RELATED.

even know what a migraine is?

There are so many things wrong with your OP, but the worst thing about it IMO is your obliviousness to the pain of a coworker. Also to a little thing called the integrity of your own employment record. The last thing you want to do if you're newly unemployed is pointlessly burn the last company you worked for.

If you do go to HR, you better hope no one there suffers from migraine.

I get migraines. People who don't get them have no idea. And, asprin pretty much works for NOTHING, imo, not even a regular hedaache. At least for me.

Let it go.

and no amount of narcotics cause you to be miraculously better an hour later.

It was probably Imitrex or something related, and is non narcotic.

I first discovered Imitrex when one of my employees had her wife (who worked for a doctor) bring me some Imitrex one day when I was in horrible pain. Yes, she probably could have gotten in trouble for doing it. The girl did me a huge favor.

On Edit: Imitrex is also over the counter in Europe.

but it could end up hurting you, in terms of you burning your bridges

That's like saying you don't know why they called 911 after someone's hand was cut off - you had a band-aid on hand.

If aspirin were effective for your coworker, I promise they would have gladly taken it. If they didn't, accept that they know it wasn't going to work. When I have a migraine, aspirin's about as useful as offering me a stick of gum.

I would suggest alerting on your own thread and asking the mods to delete it, because it makes you look small-minded and nasty to be mulling over the possibilities for getting two people fired because one took pity on the other when they were in pain. I'm glad you aren't my coworker.

And be happy it wasn't me who was suffering with one.

Some migraine-type meds that are script only here are OTC in alost of Europe. When my sister lived in Germany, she used to send me this OTC green pill that worked wonders. I can't remember the name of it, but I know it was script only here. I actually think it was nice of the boss to do that.

It would be different if it was Vicodin, Ritalin, etc.

My mom and sister are both nurses, and we all share meds (and they send me free samples) all the time. We are very bad.

to the recipient about the medical dangers posed by prescription drugs: for example, two or three days later, at lunch time, mentioning a story about some medical emergency created by a similar event, told as is completely ignorant of the events and with the comment How can people be so careless of their health?

If it occurred regularly, I'd assume it wasn't migraine medication but drug-dealing, I'd stay as far away from it as possible and remain as ignorant of it as possible, while diligently looking for another job

If you can live with yourself, sure why not turn him in?

In situations where the cowrker would have had to left work and possibly sought medical attention without that help. If the person turns out to have a chronic condition, they should really see a doctor and get their own prescription. Sometimes occaisions arise though where a person just begins exhibting symptoms or perhaps hadn't had problems with their condition for a while and no longer had medicine.

I'm glad I don't work with most of you. It's not anybody's fucking business what kind of medication you're on,prescription or non prescription as long as you do your job. Talk about pettiness...sorry, but you're it. .