Hello
A bit of advice really, I'm not a carer or a client, but my next door neighbour (neighbouring apartment) is a client who receives help a couple of times a week with shopping/cleaning etc after a TMI. We have a common entrance to our 2 apartments and recently I have been aware of a large amount of cigarette smoke coming out from under my neighbour's door and into my flat entrance when one of the carers is visiting. I know that the client smokes, and I know that the carer smokes as she has been seen smoking outside the flats and also in the local supermarket car park smoking with the client.
So I'm pretty sure they are both smoking in the house together. This doesn't happen with the other carer that comes on another day. It's a nuisance as it's getting into my flat (it does already with my neighbour's smoking habit), but when there are 2 people smoking it's horrible. I have a child with asthma and I am a cancer survivor,so I find this increasingly distressing. I appreciate that someone can do what they like in their own space and that I have to suck it up to some extent, but the carer smoking? That's wrong.
Now I don't want to get anyone sacked, as I assume this would be a sacking offence (I actually don't have any proof anyway), but what should I do?
My neighbour can be difficult and stroppy (she is also a heavy drinker but that is another story...) and has previously told me to get lost when I have mentioned smoke in my flat, she can do what she likes, so having a quiet word won't help. Should I approach the care agency and say there is a problem without giving names (so they will remind everyone not to do it?) Aaggh - it is distressing. It shouldn't happen, it's bad enough as it is without the extra smoke.
Your thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you.
A bit of advice really, I'm not a carer or a client, but my next door neighbour (neighbouring apartment) is a client who receives help a couple of times a week with shopping/cleaning etc after a TMI. We have a common entrance to our 2 apartments and recently I have been aware of a large amount of cigarette smoke coming out from under my neighbour's door and into my flat entrance when one of the carers is visiting. I know that the client smokes, and I know that the carer smokes as she has been seen smoking outside the flats and also in the local supermarket car park smoking with the client.
So I'm pretty sure they are both smoking in the house together. This doesn't happen with the other carer that comes on another day. It's a nuisance as it's getting into my flat (it does already with my neighbour's smoking habit), but when there are 2 people smoking it's horrible. I have a child with asthma and I am a cancer survivor,so I find this increasingly distressing. I appreciate that someone can do what they like in their own space and that I have to suck it up to some extent, but the carer smoking? That's wrong.
Now I don't want to get anyone sacked, as I assume this would be a sacking offence (I actually don't have any proof anyway), but what should I do?
My neighbour can be difficult and stroppy (she is also a heavy drinker but that is another story...) and has previously told me to get lost when I have mentioned smoke in my flat, she can do what she likes, so having a quiet word won't help. Should I approach the care agency and say there is a problem without giving names (so they will remind everyone not to do it?) Aaggh - it is distressing. It shouldn't happen, it's bad enough as it is without the extra smoke.
Your thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you.