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IT Services Company Wipro Forces 600 Employees To Work In Bed Bug Infested Office (11alive.com)
McGruber writes: Information Technology Services CorporationWipro's 600-employee call center in Chamblee, Georgia is in infected with bed bugs according to Atlanta television station 11Alive. The facilities manager admits there is a bed bug problem and it's been an issue since late May. Employees told the tv station that the bugs are all over the three floors -- and they're biting. But employees are being told they still must go to work. Kwanita Holmes sent 11Alive photos of what she said is a bed bug bite on her arm: "We're at work 8 hours a day and we're getting munched on all day," she said. Wipro said it's paying for in-home bed bug consultations and treatments for employees.
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It was just a debugging training facility and all the bugs have been trained raised for that purpose.
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Bedbugs are nasty. My apartment complex had a "beetle" infestation in the summer of 2008. My apartment had to be bug bombed once a month for three months. Took a year to get my life back to normal.
I have dealt with bedbug infestations. They generally don't bite people that are not sleeping. The "bedbug bites" shown in the video look nothing like actual bedbug bites that I have seen. To see what real bites look like, go to images.google.com and type "bedbug bites".
Insecticides and fumigation don't work well because they only kill the bugs, and not the eggs, so a week later they will be back. The best/fastest way to get rid of bedbugs is with heat. Get the heat up to 140F (60C) for eight hours. One way to do this is to pack loose bedding and cushions in a car parked in the sun with the windows closed. Then buy or rent some powerful space heaters and heat up all the rooms. Luckily, they will be doing this in the summer.
To prevent reinfestation, they need to ban people from bringing cushions, blankets, stuffed animals, etc. from home. They also need to check their contractor cleaning crew. It is best that they use your vacuum cleaner rather than their own that they move from place to place.
Indian sweat-shop programmers or bed bugs.
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for the H1B's it's better then oversaes so usc suck it up and no we can't pay you more then 60K
The best/fastest way to get rid of bedbugs is with heat. Get the heat up to 140F (60C) for eight hours. One way to do this is to pack loose bedding and cushions in a car parked in the sun with the windows closed.
Or, being that they are located in Georgia, just turn off the air conditioning.
Or, lock the employees in cars parked in the sun with the windows closed.
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No, but I have found that it is a good working assumption when dealing with journalists, lawyers, and politicians.
Yeah, I'm sure Trump sent them bedbugs you fucking loon.
Trump does own hotels...
60C (140F) for 8 hours is massive overkill.
Massive overkill is exactly the right amount of overkill for bedbugs.
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You misunderstood the intent of my post.
If Wipro, a company that forces its employees to work in a bugbed infested building, is typical of the companies being harmed by Trump's policies, then I'm all for the policies that are harming these companies!
60C (140F) for 8 hours is massive overkill.
The problem is that bedbugs hide in cracks and crevices, under carpets, inside furniture stuffing, etc. You need to get sufficient heat into all those places ... and the hard part isn't killing the bugs, but killing the eggs. If you don't kill all the eggs, the bugs will be back in a few weeks. It is better to do "massive overkill" once than to do it twice with less heat.
Compare the cost of heat-soaking an entire office building to 120F vs 140F.
140 is prohibitively expensive and also extremely dangerous to humans, but you can easily reach 120F in the summer by opening all the doors and windows to get the building up to 100-105F in the early afternoon, and then close the doors/windows and crank up the heat in the late afternoon. At 120F, humans will be able to enter the building to take measurements.
p.s. I guarantee you that someone brought the infection from home, and they'll bring it back again after the treatment is done.
I worked for years in mosquito control so I know a lot of entomologists, including one who has for years now operated a service for identifying pests like hair lice and bedbugs. More than half of the time the samples of bedbugs he's been asked to look at are something else.
The first step in a problem like this is to get someone who knows what he's doing to look at samples of what you're seeing. You could have a completely different problem going on -- a different kind of insect like fleas or bat bugs -- or even mass hysteria over an innocuous insect infestation.
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Us USA citizens also have to right to have our asses chewed off by insects, managers, and other vermin. Equal Opportunity Chewin'!
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They won't kill the bedbugs out of professional courtesy.
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If you use Wipro call them, demand a manager, and tell them you want to cancel your service because of the bedbug issue and how they're treating their employees. Even even a couple of customers leave they'll jump right on it because it'll hit em where it hurts... in their wallets...
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The inflammation on her arm suggests that she is very allergic to the bugs' bites. Not everybody reacts the same - some develop huge bumps and swelling, others show no reaction at all. There is no indication that anybody involved disputes the presence of bedbugs at that site.
The best/fastest way to get rid of bedbugs is with heat. Get the heat up to 140F (60C) for eight hours.
Good lord, don't give them any ideas. It seems like work conditions there are bad enough without you having them make it into a *literal* sweatshop for an entire workday.
The best way is to be the type of person the bedbugs won't bite in the first place. They'll completely avoid some type 1 diabetics for some reason. Same with lice. YMMV. Type 2 diabetes - sorry, you're a bug magnet.
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This however is exactly what the pros recommend.
What about people posting on Slashdot?
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The Russians who finance him / guarantee his loans through Deutsch Bank own the hotels. The usual lenders won't lend to him any more because they've been bitten too many times. And then there's this mess
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Just give employees free Soylent for lunch. That building will be gassed out by 2:45.
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Indian sweatshops. Cheap ass commodity labor.
Wipro too. I'm not surprised. We know that Wipro is a shit company, in my shop. That's why they're on the prohibited vendor list. Fuck em.
Huh?
No, it's not overkill. Overkill doesn't exist for the bedbugs.
Notice that to reach the level for killing the bugs and their eggs in the hidden parts of a building you need to exceed the heat needed to kill them in the building and make sure that the whole building gets hot enough.
But all people working in that workplace has to get their homes cleaned as well.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
The company will likely go under when bed bugs start appearing at employees homes. You think it's expansive to get them out of one building, imagine adding 600 homes to that list.
Unfortunately if it's that bad them likely many of the employees now have them at home so they'll just keep getting reinfected. The only was for this to get solved is for the company to rent the building and everyone's house. But expect a massive amount of hotel infections to follow.
Yes. I have a package in the basement. Price on it is 43 cents. Probably from the 1960s. I found it in a house I bought. Still works very well. I remember they used to put DDT on playgrounds it was so safe. Nothing like the crazy environmentalists want us to believe.
Unlike Wipro, Trump actually has acted in favor of regular, non-billionaire US citizens.
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Yeah, they are racist GOP bedbugs in red state Atlanta, only too happy to suck the blood out of the Kwanitas who work for Wipro
Shouldn't it be 127.0.0.1, so that the bedbugs do a loopback & end up biting themselves in their own ass?
bedbugs are starting to spreed everywhere sense we got rid of ddt. if you know your history bedbugs where so bad pre world war 2 they where a way of life then we started using ddt wiped them out in the usa of course other country's did not and now there making a comeback because without the use of ddt there very hard to kill the only other thing that works is heat.
many of the employees now have them at home
The bugs probably came to the house initially from someone's home. They likely will return to the office again if all employee homes aren't included in the kill approach.
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I wonder how many employee's homes got infested by bringing bedbugs in clothing and personal belongings. The facility is surely possible to treat with heat, but would then re-infestation occur via employees bringing them back from their homes? Should the employer offer bedbug treatment to any employee who needs it, at the same time?
This is an expensive problem.
I've just had a misfortune to stay in a hotel in Paris infested with bedbugs (Hotel Aladin at Les Gobelins). Found them after two nights in the place, after bites inflamed all over my body. To be on the safe side, I ordered emergency treatment of my luggage, which was performed by dousing it with a chemical, with all my belongings laid out right on a Paris street. Possibly an overkill, but better be on the safe side. I also washed the clothes I was in as soon as I could. I also packed electronics in tight plastic bags and ran it through thermal treatment back home.
Funnily when I tried to check in to another, better, Paris hotel _after the treatment_ and told them of the problem I had, the hotel manager swiftly escorted me out of the reception. He told they had bedbugs and it took them two months to get rid of, so they were not taking any chances. I had to stay silent when searching for a room after that.
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You experience is vastly different from mine. Worst case I've seen was from infested books. I've been bitten at theaters and on transit. If they are hungry they will feed, sleeping or not. A badly infected home will have everything covered with eggs. Shoes, backpacks, books, pens, everything that is taken out of the house will spread the evil little fuckers.
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