HR Just Asked Me to Stop Icing My Foot at My Desk

Sorry, just saw this thread again.

I am not trolling.

I will hopefully move past the cubicle before too long, which is why I am not trying to cause any trouble.

I was thinking though, most of the women wear open toed shoes during the summer, which is really much more "foot" than me in my dress socks.

I ice with ice cubes in a gallon ziplock, so there is no mess. I even throw away the ice and keep the ziplock in a drawer so that it isn't in the freezer with food. I am pretty aware.

I do this under my desk. I have no idea how the bitch in HR even knows about it.

I think I will ask "why." I'll be respectful about it, but I will ask.

You must not be worth a damn. If you brought value to your employer, they wouldn't be messing with you like this.

Or his feet (even with socks on) or shoes might smell.

What type of hell hole do you work in that worries about stuff like this?

Tell HR to shove it. I worked in HR for over three decades and never (ever) told an employee to not ice at their desk. I drew the line at employees whacking off at their desk, but icing....never.

Go see your gutless boss and tell them what happened. Let your boss deal with HR.

The coworker who complained is probably a fat, whiny pig of a woman who has dog hair all over her clothes. That should make you feel better.

The next time you meet with the Bobs, tell them you will put a couple pieces of company flair on your racing singlet if you can ice your foot at the desk.

Hi,

Some times HR people frustrate me, and I'm a HR person.

Would you doctor be willing to sign off that you have a medical condition that requires icing (heck, throw in that you need to wear athletic shoes too!)? If so, request an accommodation under the ADA. (I'm assuming you are in the US)

Good Luck!

**Excuse the typos in my last post, I'm using my phone...yikes!

Yeah, get a medical excuse. If that doesn't work, start using a cane. You will soon get your own office, private handicapped bathroom and maybe even a rascal scooter.

Immediately get a lawyer and file a ADA lawsuit. Easy street from there.

Captain Oblivious wrote:

Why would ice prevent injury?

Sounds like he is trying to keep an existing (or recently past) injury at bay. His wording was kind of ambiguous.

An HR person here wrote:

Hi,

Some times HR people frustrate me, and I'm a HR person.

Would you doctor be willing to sign off that you have a medical condition that requires icing (heck, throw in that you need to wear athletic shoes too!)? If so, request an accommodation under the ADA. (I'm assuming you are in the US)

Good Luck!

^^sounds like you're one of the "good" HR types. That's good advice OP... I used to work in an office that required dress shoes/heels for gals... and this one lady got a docs note to say she could wear athletic shoes for foot probs... I was so frustrated at the time b/c I was following the dress code dutifully.

I do think the trick is to play by the corporate rules. There is probably a whiney coworker that started this problem... you totally have a right to do what the doc says!

my guess wrote:

Captain Oblivious wrote:

Why would ice prevent injury?

Sounds like he is trying to keep an existing (or recently past) injury at bay. His wording was kind of ambiguous.

That's not going to keep it at bay. He needs to stop aggravating it in other ways.

Here's a better question though, why are you icing your foot? Icing is unlikely to help any injury, but especially something tendon-related like plantar fasciitis. Probably bad for a stress fracture too.

Get pregnant and take leave and have an abortion.

modern methods wrote:

Here's a better question though, why are you icing your foot? Icing is unlikely to help any injury, but especially something tendon-related like plantar fasciitis. Probably bad for a stress fracture too.

He probably listened to J.R.

At least he's not sitting in an ice bath in his cubicle.

Captain Oblivious wrote:

my guess wrote:

Sounds like he is trying to keep an existing (or recently past) injury at bay. His wording was kind of ambiguous.

That's not going to keep it at bay. He needs to stop aggravating it in other ways.

Icing an injury to reduce the inflammation will indeed keep it at bay. What "other ways" are you referring to? Running? Lol I think it's unlikely the OP is going to stop doing that.

my guess wrote:

Icing an injury to reduce the inflammation will indeed keep it at bay.

On the false premise that the injury is caused by the inflammation or that the inflammation prevents it from healing.

Inflammation is increased blood supply, the purpose of which is to make an injury heal faster. Reducing inflammation may mask an injury but it will not enhance its healing one bit. Unless you have compartment syndrome, which would hospitalize and maybe kill you, it's better to let inflammation run its course.

mymanlll wrote:

HAHA. That's hilarious. I'm sure youre trolling, but I love it. I actually would always ice at my desk when my shins were bad. There was once of those cold packs in the office freezer. NO ONE ever seemed to use it, so I figured what the heck. I started using it everyday. Turns out it was a guys who used it to keep his lunch cold at times. Pretty awkward when I had it rolled up in my dress socks..

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome!

If I was one of your co-workers (and obviously sympathetic to your cause as a fellow runner), I'd be on the floor with laughter if I witnessed that.

Awesome!

And to the OP, tell them to go to hell, you're a flesh and bone human not a robot, keep icing!