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Being forced to room with someone at meetings is so degrading and dehumanizing

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Anonymous said:
Why do I always get the guy who wears English Leather...a lot of it!
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better than old spice. I always get "old spice guy" who wears shirts with the drug names on them. Nothing says "tool" than a company man who wears a Bextra vest with jeans to training and a Relpax polo to the training session along with a splash of Old Spice
 




Let me get this straight Pfizer makes you room together and you all think that is acceptable? I'm in Clin Ops and I have to say we have meetings a few times a year and nobody has ever had to room with anyone, and I can't imagine how anyone could put up with that, sounds dangerous to me.
 




I don't get it. At meetings, I keep being told that we have our own rooms, but your MOM keeps showing up and telling me that she has been assigned to my room. What's her deal?
 




I'm not sure why, but the state director always makes me share a room with him, and he makes me sleep in a barrel with a hole cut in the side. In the morning I always wake up with a bleeding anus.

I really hope they cancel the next IEM...
 








Anonymous said:
I stopped having to room with people using a simple trick -- I tell people i start screaming in my sleep for no apparent reason-- PTSD For some reason, nobody wants to room with me ....

Try that next time
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OMG....I actually did room with someone at a meeting who had "night terrors." She scared the shit out of me when she sat up in her bed and starting screaming at 3 AM. I thought the hotel was on fire or something! Apparently she'd done this before....thanks for the warning. It was a three day meeting! No sleep for me.
 








The worst thing is when you show up mid-afternoon and your roommate, who for some fucking reason has been there for hours, has already ruined the bathroom with nasty shit vapors mixed with the stench of his Royal Copenhagen Musk. What a fucking downer!
 








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I think I speak for everyone at this company when I say that this is something that is just reprehensible. Not just at training, but at regional meetings as well. Nothing says "f-this" like flying into NY from the west coast, getting to the compound at 11PM and opening the door to find a complete stranger snoring away in his underwear.

I've even asked to pay for my own fucking room with a personal card and they won't let me do it! Think about that- a place of business turning down profit just to keep us cooped up with other co-workers and not having a single minute of personal time or space!!

Is this seriously a cost cutting move or just some behavioral science initiative attempting to make us more submissive and beaten than we already are? Somebody should sue their asses for emotional stress or violation of privacy or sexual discrimination. I'm willing to try it. I'll just have to document the fact that they won't let me get my own room when that place has a couple hundred vacancies in it and I'm willing to pay for my own.
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I LIKE rooming with strangers. What's wrong with you? A stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet. I enjoy the sounds and smells of other people... it's all about humanity. I think that's the main reason why I have been a manager for over a decade: My ability to look beyond myself and see and understand others.
 




Worked for Wyeth. Always got my own room and paid for it myself. If it matters to you that much you should be willing to pay for it. Would call the hotel and register a room with my my middle name as my last name. If hotel was booked I would stay at next closest. Next. If you have any valid medical condition a doctor could write a note for you can send to HR directly. They have no choice but to give you your own room for medical privacy. The doctor only needs to write for medical privacy please provide private quarters at meetings. Haven't shared a room since. I shared tactic with many others and they have had success. Skin conditions. Anxiety. Sleep apnea. Milking mothers breast pumping. 100 reasons you can get out of it. Hope it helps. Works for me.
 




The worst is a roommate who, on the first day of the meeting, masturbates furiously while you change clothes...

You just know you're going to get buggered if you go to sleep on your stomach, and you'll probably get t-bagged if you go to sleep on your back. The classic "no-win" situation...
 




Anonymous said:
Worked for Wyeth. Always got my own room and paid for it myself. If it matters to you that much you should be willing to pay for it. Would call the hotel and register a room with my my middle name as my last name. If hotel was booked I would stay at next closest. Next. If you have any valid medical condition a doctor could write a note for you can send to HR directly. They have no choice but to give you your own room for medical privacy. The doctor only needs to write for medical privacy please provide private quarters at meetings. Haven't shared a room since. I shared tactic with many others and they have had success. Skin conditions. Anxiety. Sleep apnea. Milking mothers breast pumping. 100 reasons you can get out of it. Hope it helps. Works for me.
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I tried this and was UNSUCCESSFUL. They rejected my claim for sleep apnea and made an appointment with an out of network physician chosen by Pfizer HR. I would have had to drive 50 miles and take a vacation day to try and prove my case. I had all the documentation from my personal doc
 




Anonymous said:
I tried this and was UNSUCCESSFUL. They rejected my claim for sleep apnea and made an appointment with an out of network physician chosen by Pfizer HR. I would have had to drive 50 miles and take a vacation day to try and prove my case. I had all the documentation from my personal doc
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They can discuss this with my ADA attorney if they pull that crap.

21. May an employer ask an employee for documentation when the employee requests reasonable accommodation for the job?

Yes. When the need for accommodation is not obvious, an employer may ask an employee for reasonable documentation about his/her disability and functional limitations. The employer is entitled to know that the employee has a covered disability for which s/he needs a reasonable accommodation.52 A variety of health professionals may provide such documentation with regard to psychiatric disabilities.53

Example A: An employee asks for time off because he is "depressed and stressed." Although this statement is sufficient to put the employer on notice that he is requesting accommodation,54 the employee's need for accommodation is not obvious based on this statement alone. Accordingly, the employer may require reasonable documentation that the employee has a disability within the meaning of the ADA and, if he has such a disability, that the functional limitations of the disability necessitate time off.

Example B: Same as Example A, except that the employer requires the employee to submit all of the records from his health professional regarding his mental health history, including materials that are not relevant to disability and reasonable accommodation under the ADA. This is not a request for reasonable documentation. All of these records are not required to determine if the employee has a disability as defined by the ADA and needs the requested reasonable accommodation because of his disability-related functional limitations. As one alternative, in order to determine the scope of its ADA obligations, the employer may ask the employee to sign a limited release allowing the employer to submit a list of specific questions to the employee's health care professional about his condition and need for reasonable accommodation.

22. May an employer require an employee to go to a health care professional of the employer's (rather than the employee's) choice for purposes of documenting need for accommodation and disability?

The ADA does not prevent an employer from requiring an employee to go to an appropriate health professional of the employer's choice if the employee initially provides insufficient information to substantiate that s/he has an ADA disability and needs a reasonable accommodation. 55 Of course, any examination must be job-related and consistent with business necessity. If an employer requires an employee to go to a health professional of the employer's choice, the employer must pay all costs associated with the visit(s).

55 Employers also may consider alternatives like having their health professional consult with the employee's health professional, with the employee's consent.
 




The basis for the private room is medical privacy. You need not provide the reason for the room. Even requesting further information is a violation of medical privacy. The note from the physician for medical privacy is sufficient.
 












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