Category: workplace
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 Nov 19, 2007 in Fox News New York, TV, bed bug rumors, bed bugs, bedbugs, getting rid of bed bugs, gossip, media, new york, news, signs and symptoms of bed bugs, workplace, workplace bed bugs | 1 Comment
It was just over a year ago when a journalist claimed a reliable source told her of bed bugs infesting the midtown Manhattan offices of Fox News. The allegation was that the infestation “originated on the VIP couch,” a tidbit which might be apocryphal, but is too good to pass up.
Still, I was skeptical […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 3, 2007 in bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs in schools, bedbugs, best practices, blame game, bracken county, children and bed bugs, detection, diagnosis, doe, employee, government, health, health department, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, ignorance, maryland, misinformation, new york, pest control, pest control in schools, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public health, scapegoating, schools, signs and symptoms, students, tools and weapons, treatment, treatment in institutions, treatment in schools, usa, warning, workplace | 1 Comment
More information about the Bracken County Schools bed bug situation. A new article from WCPO.com news says T&M Pest Control is treating Bracken County schools for bed bugs this weekend.
Terry says, “A pest control program for bed bugs is very detailed. You’ve got to get all the crevices. We are doing a little more […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 2, 2007 in KY, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs in schools, bedbugs, bracken county, education, kentucky, news, pest control in schools, preventive treatment, schools, signs and symptoms, treatment, treatment in institutions, treatment in schools, usa, workplace | 6 Comments
The Bracken County, Kentucky, school system’s response was to shut down all schools for one day for precautionary treatment, after a bed bug was found in a classroom, Lex18 news reported yesterday.
Bracken County schools will be closed Friday after a middle school student was found to have an infestation of bed bugs, and one of […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 27, 2007 in Cadwalader, activism, allergies, apartments, awareness, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, bloomberg, cambridge, colleges, condominiums, consumer, curbed, denial, detection, good ideas, gossip, harvard, health, hotels, ignorance, landlords, law, lawsuits, legal, massachusetts, mental health, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, public education, public health, real estate, rumors, spread, tenants, treatment, usa, we're doomed, workplace | 0 Comments
Curbed.com, the real estate blog, claims that 30 Lincoln Plaza, currently being redeveloped into pricey condominiums (Curbed mentions a price of $1,185,000 for 647 sq/ft one bedrooms), is infested with bed bugs:
UPPER WEST SIDE—It seems there is a little detail about the condo conversion at 30 Lincoln Plaza that may have been overlooked: “You failed […]
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 Oct 12, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, chairs, clothing, dry cleaning, dryer, laundry, mattresses, sofas, spread, tips, workplace | 11 Comments
A reader writes,
Hello,
I found your site and wanted to ask a question. I rent an NYC apartment and it has been confirmed by an exterminator that we have bed bugs. I am wondering about the transportation of bed bugs. For example, I work in a corporate office…What are the odds that I’ve […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 9, 2007 in EMTS, Rentokil, bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, curbside, england, firefighters, furniture, hospitals, journalist, laundry, london, mattresses, northern ireland, ohio, police, scotland, spread, tips, tossing stuff out, treatment, uk, usa, used furniture, wales, workplace | 1 Comment
Monday’s Daily Telegraph featured a long article on bed bugs in the UK. Overall it was a typical story of the spread of bed bugs in Britain, and coming as it does from a well-respected source, it is a good thing. I was, however, disappointed in some of the information provided.
First, the journalist […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 25, 2007 in bed bug bites, bed bugs, bed bugs in hotels, bedbugs, employee, hampton roads, hotels, how to get rid of bed bugs, motels, treatment in hotels, usa, virginia, workplace | 2 Comments
Lindsay Roberts reports for WVEC.com that bed bugs are flourishing in Virginia hotels in areas such as Newport News, Hampton Roads, and Virginia Beach.
One woman is interviewed who used to work as a motel housekeeper; she started getting bitten at work, and she quit her job because of it.
“If I’m getting bit up like this, […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 27, 2007 in CWT, Cadwalader, Taft, Tipping Point, Wickersham, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, employee, lawsuits, legal, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, rumors, signs and symptoms, treatment, workplace | 19 Comments
Legal blog Above the Law has reproduced a memo from the Chairman of a well-known law firm announcing to employees that there is a bed bug problem on the 33rd floor in the Word Processing dept. of that firm. (MediaBistro’s FlishBowlNY blog is also covering this, so the leaked memo is getting around.)
In it, […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 7, 2007 in ABCDC, Brooklyn, Queens, Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, bombs, boston, conferences, doing your own pest control, foggers, government, illinois, massachusetts, multi-unit buildings, new mexico, new york, news, social services, spread, tenants, usa, workplace | 4 Comments
A news round-up for today:
This article in the Quad-Cities Online reported yesterday on bed bug infestations in a public housing complex in East Moline, Illinois. The reporter quotes one resident who has been battling bed bugs since fall.
“I work too. My tax dollars are going to support places like this (government run low-income housing). […]