Woman Refuses To Give Coworker Pads And Tampons After Too Many Go Missing

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Feb 6, 2022 10:00 AM EST

There is nothing like office drama. Office settings can be so mundane, a story like this is necessary to keep things interesting. A woman working in a large office space keeps an entire desk drawer of pads and tampons because her menstrual cycle is 'wild.' Everyone she works with seems to know this. Most only know because they see her frequently using the restroom during that time of the month. Others keep this knowledge at the forefront of their brains in order to steal her goods. We all find ourselves in emergency situations where we need to phone a friend for a period product. But the OP in this story feels she is being taken advantage of. She has reason to believe that the perpetrator doesn't even need period products. Read on to see what the moral judges in Reddit's AITA community have to say. 

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  • 01
    Font - r/AmItheAsshole - Posted by u/jdjdndjcjcjcj 5 hours ago AITA from banning my coworker from my period products stockpile?
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    From just reading this question our gut reaction is - yes. She sounds like the AH here. But let's keep reading to find out. 

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    Font - I work at a medium sized office, I know everyone on my floor. We have semi-open space set up and only one set of men's and women's toilets (they are large though), so we meet each other all the time and us women run into each other at the toilets.
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    Rectangle - Due to this, my coworkers just know that my periods are wild (it's not like I announce it, it's purely because of how often I go to toilet during those days, always holding a pad or a tampon) and that one entire drawer if my desk is just a stockpile of pads and tampons.
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    Damn. She must have a heavy flow and a wide set vagina (Mean Girls reference). We love picturing a desk drawer that is sky-high with period products. Sounds like the perfect thing to show a toxic male co-worker to scare him away. 

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    Organism - Of course, if a fellow coworker has a period emergency I am happy to give her a pad or tampon or a over-the-counter painkiller. One pack of ten pads costs like 120 out of my 20k currency (not US dollars), so while it isn't cheap, it's affordable. And usually they don't ask for more than a pad per month.
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    120? We wonder what currency this is. They definitely need to protest the period product tax. 

  • 05
    Font - Usually.
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  • 06
    Font - One coworker asks for at least one pad/tampob a day during each of her periods. Which is a lot, in my opinion. As a woman with heavy flow who sometimes goes through one pad in an hour I understand, but the thing is...
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    One a day is asking for too much. Periods usually last one week out of the month. Something is fishy. 

  • 07
    Font - I know for a fact she cannot bleed. It is anatomically impossible. The entire office knows it. I started locking my period drawer since pads would dissapear randomly and others told me she was the one taking them.
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  • 08
    Font - So this week when she ran up to my desk asking for a pad since her period was killing her, I opened my stacked drawer and offered her a painkiller to ease the cramps. She declined saying her periods don't hurt, she just needs the pads. I tried to be as sensitive
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  • 09
    Font - as I could and told her that she costs me an entire pack of pads or tampons a month, it's too much, she has to get her own... she replied she has her own but her period is so irregular she needs one NOW since she already used up her one spare. I told her that I am sorry but that I don't believe she needs them... for reasons I don't want to get into. She immediatelly got what I was getting at, stormed to the HR.
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    Font - I have a meeting with the HR tomorrow. Some coworkers are telling me I was being rude, others said I did the right thing by speaking up and that she must have been waiting for someone to finally call her out so she can cause a ruckus.
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    Font - Firefox_Alpha2 6m Partassipant [1] NTA - what does she think HR is going to do? Vote Reply Share
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    Font - firefly232 · 5h· edited 13m 3 Asshole Aficionado [19] NTA For the meeting with HR. Stay away from talking about what you think about her body. Don't bring that up at all. Talk only about the fact that she demands to use items that you've paid for, that her demands are excessive, and that other people have told you she steals from you.
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    Font - fluffy_unicorn_2699 · 26m 1. Do we really know that for sure??? 2. Pads can soak up other things besides menstrual blood. Maybe she had surgery recently and there's drainage. Maybe she has urinary stress incontinence and pees a little every time she sneezes and is too embarrassed to say so. 3. There are better reasons to politely say you don't want to give her your supplies.
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    Font - sessiestax 1h Why can't companies just pick up the minuscule cost and provide hygiene period products in the bathroom for women? So ridiculous.I bet if men had periods if would not be an issue 5 Reply Share
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