My wife(23) who has anxiety/PCOS/ and heart palpitations has recently been promoted to manager of a KY area Payday Loan office. Her office is part of a small strip of stores with the backs facing a small sheep pasture so the back storage area of the store gets a ton of bugs. The worst part, we believe a brown recluse laid eggs back there cause there has seen so many.
They have been using Raid spray back there (almost daily) for over two weeks. The store doesn’t have functional A/C or airflow in the back so all the fumes either sit there or waft to the front when they have the front door open. She texted me saying the District Manager told her and her assistant to “just spray ourselves” when she told her about how many were back there and in the boxes. My wife didn’t fully understand the severity of the spray with no airflow so when I brought it up she goes “no wonder I’ve had (literal symptoms of poisoning i.e. headaches/migraines/eye twitching/blurry vision/trouble breathing) though it was just the weather”
Seeing as how it can be simply solved by the company and or landlord to get someone to spray/fumigate or at the very least fix the AC, my wife emailed her Regional Manager (DM was in surgery) explaining the situation.
This is the response from the President of the company:
“DM will be back next week. I think you need to continue spraying and using the Sticky Traps.
It sounds like they are living in and around the boxes. Can we get rid of some of the boxes?
Purged Files we have to keep. But if it is Marketing Supplies we can move them out and spray them and distribute to other stores.
You can go to Lowes and get some inside and outside spray. Spray the outside of building and around the walls on the inside.
RM and DM both have Trucks the could hall off some boxes of marketing,
It is up to LandLord as far as hiring a third party to help.”
To which LandLord relied “I agree with President. You need to clean it up and get some bug spray from Lowe's and spray every week, DO NOT hire anyone”.
My wife is too the point with her 30+ year old assistant actively trying to undermine her but is somehow lazy about her job to my wife, the rude costumers and the heavy workload/paperwork from higher, and now they want her to play amateur exterminator. The spiders are in and around the boxes, she doesn’t even want to touch them even if she had the time to.
So reddit, what should she/we do?
Edit Quitting is an absolute last resort