r/AmIOverreacting • u/MeanderingDragon • Mar 06 '26

💼work/career AIO about this text I got from HR?

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So to preface, I'm Type 1 diabetic, which means I have to take multiple daily insulin injections to live. I typically take 5-8 shots per day, and while it isn't fun, it is routine and necessary.

I was at work this morning and they had a small amount of food out for some sort of 'employee appreciation' which reminded me I hadn't had any insulin yet and my glucose levels were getting too high. I took a shot of insulin, got some breakfast, and went to my desk. A few minutes later, this text arrives.

I can understand that shots make some people uncomfortable. Trust me, I'm one of those people. But I have to take them anyway. Am I overreacting to think that if you don't want to see me talking a shot, you can turn your head? Should I have to go to the bathroom which only gets cleaned twice a week, and take my shots in secret like it's a drug addiction? Perhaps it is just me, but I feel that not everything in life that makes us a little uncomfortable is something that has to be pushed out of sight. Sometimes we would benefit more from understanding, acceptance, and perhaps acclimation.

Also for the record, while they say they "mentioned this several times", our HR manager scolded me once maybe two or three years ago publicly during lunch in our cafeteria. I ignored it that time, because friends sitting around me supported me after HR walked off.

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u/comicsnerd Mar 06 '26

Not a medical issue, but one of the women at my company had a baby and she needed to (forgot the word) tap her breasts for breastmilk.

She came to me (COO) with the request, we blinded a room and gave her the key. There were a few more requests, but that was it. Since she was very happy with it, the room was dedicated for women as a relax office, no questions asked.

The beautiful thing was, none of the men questioned it. All of them were fathers or uncles.

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u/SisterGoldenHair75 Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

“Tap her breasts” has now officially entered my lexicon 💀

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u/PrestigiousHedgehog8 Mar 07 '26

I’m dying. Picturing a sugar maple but booby

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u/AsYooouWish Mar 06 '26

“Express” or “expressing” were the terms used when I had my kid about 15 years ago.

At that time my job, a retail store, gave me the options of A) using the office that used open shelves as the walls, B) going to my car, or C) using the women’s room

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u/comicsnerd Mar 06 '26

Sorry for that. This was an IT company

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u/ArmadilloForsaken458 Mar 07 '26

Sounds like a good one, some of the ones I worked at didnt care about anyone's personal life really. Bad car accident, you get one day off to take care of it, and we want you back the following day. Someone stealing money out of your bank account, two hours go to the bank and get it sorted out and come back. A couple other things happened to me that year, anyway I was happy to leave that place at that time. Family, health, etc is more important even if they believed that work trumped all

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u/ghonig Mar 07 '26

Express yourself. Don’t repress yourself.

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u/D_M_A30 Mar 07 '26

Express or pump is the usual words but im loving "tap her breasts"

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u/Stencils294 Mar 07 '26

Man with spigot and hammer waiting in the room beforehand

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