Category: bed bugs at work
By nobugsonme on Mar 28, 2008 in Halawa, bed bugs, bed bugs at work, bed bugs in the workplace, bedbugs, correctional, hawaii, prison, prisons and bed bugs, worker's compensation | 2 Comments
KHON 2 News in Hawai’i reports that staff areas at the state’s Halawa Correctional Facility have been infested with bed bugs since September.
According to a corrections officer, the problem is so bad in staff controlled areas, there was even talk of closing down one of the modules at the facility.The officer, who wanted to remain […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 24, 2008 in Cadwalader, bed bugs, bed bugs at work, cravath swaine and moore, law firms, lawyers, legal, nyc, workplace | 0 Comments
This time it’s Cravath, Swaine, and Moore, according to legal tabloid Above the Law. Apparently Cravath are trying to one-up Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, who Above the Law claimed had bed bugs in June, and again in October.
Above the Law claims,
1. An email was sent around Cravath last week about the presence of […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 18, 2008 in Fox, Fox NY, Fox News, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs at work, bedbugs, employees and bed bugs, new york, nyc, rumors of bed bugs, workplace | 12 Comments
Someone claimed there were bed bugs in the VIP couch at Fox News’s Manhattan studios in November of 2006. After we followed up, the source claimed she was told this by a Fox producer. That sounded plausible enough, but still, just a rumor.
Then, a year later, in November 2007, someone else claimed […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 12, 2008 in bed bugs, bed bugs at work, bed bugs in the workplace, bedbugs, employees, government, government buildings, jails, jersey city, new jersey | 1 Comment
The Jersey Journal reports (via nj.com) that Renée Meyers and Gail Krone, who work as cleaners at the County Administration Building on Newark Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey, asked a supervisor about whether there were bed bugs in the holding cells:
“All we wanted was someone to tell whether the holding cells in the […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 11, 2008 in IRS, bed bug "hitchhikers", bed bugs, bed bugs at work, bed bugs in the media, bed bugs in the workplace, bedbugs, cincinnati, covington, employees, get rid of bed bugs, kentucky, ohio | 12 Comments
The Gateway Center, a building in Covington, Ohio Kentucky where 5,000 IRS employees work, has bed bugs.
The article implies that treatments have occurred at four-week intervals:
Gateway Center officials said that after the first bug was found on the third floor in October, all floors were chemically treated.
Those treatments are scheduled on a monthly basis, officials […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 24, 2007 in CWT, Cadwalader, Taft, Wickersham, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs at work, bedbugs, big business, blame game, employee, law, new york, news, nyc, usa, workplace | 3 Comments
Back in June we blogged the story of alleged bed bugs on the 33rd floor of the oldest Wall Street law firm (c. 1792), Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft. The memo implies the infestation was blamed on an employee, who was then apparently let go.
Having heard nothing since then, I was glad to see that […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 21, 2007 in Mizaondoec, airline industry, airlines, allergic reactions, allergic reactions to bed bugs, aviation industry, bed bug bites, bed bug skin reactions, bed bugs, bed bugs and travel, bed bugs at work, bed bugs in hotels, bedbugs, employees, flight crews, florida, hotels, itching, layover hotels, orlando, papules, pilot, pilots, skin, transportation, travel, wheals, workplace | 4 Comments
(Editor’s Note: APilot wrote on the “Where do I start?” page, and I am reposting it here so it will get more readers.)
APilot writes:
This is from a letter I’m writing for my union publication. Any feedback?
What do wheals and papules have to do with my career in Aviation? “Nothing,” I thought until I came for […]
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