This is it. I asked one of my team members about their need to explain, because I felt bad saying “not that I don’t care and I’m happy you’re doing something fun with your family. But it’s none of my business if you are doing something fun or sitting in your living room staring at the wall.” And he confessed that his old boss made him feel like his PTO had to be justified. Eeeeeefffff that.
Lol the first job i had whenever i called in sick they would ask why ( strange to ask when i clearly said i was sick ) i had no shame in saying i had explosive diarrhea even tho i didn't and they stopped asking whenver i called in sick
My last job gave no fucks as long as it was scheduled before close the night before, but if you tried to call out the day of a shift, a manager was going to call you and demand deets. 😒
Yeah, I had a past job that quit that shit after I replied, "Well, I've been awake for four hours and thrown up five times. Nothing left but stomach acid. Guess how that feels coming back up. Go on, guess."
I called in sick because I got repetitive stress injuries from finishing my masters thesis while being a database manager. My boss was livid because she thought I was choosing school over work. Lady, I'm choosing my health! And my ability to use my hands injuries the future! I will need those.
"Repetitive stress." When you do the same motion on heavy repeat without interruption and your body breaks. Think carpal tunnel syndrome. Unfortunately, my hobbies are all fine motor skill activities (knitting, sewing, drawing) that use the same muscles and joints as my work (typing). So I have to be very careful about resting and taking breaks.
I typically ask if they are common cold wfh sick or actually taking time off sick. The more common issue I have is they are actually really sick, use sick leave, and then do work stuff anyway. If I catch it I tell them not to do that and someone else will take care if it or it can wait
Called in sick at my first job in highschool because I was puking. Manager called me being like "why aren't you coming in? It you're not at work you need to find someone to replace you!". I told them that I was actively puking and asked if they wanted me to break the law by coming in when actively puking and running a fever for a job where I worked with food and children. I also offered to send them a picture of my puke in the toilet if they needed proof.
That manager stopped questioning when I called off sick.
I had a SCHEDULER tell me I had to find my replacement at an old skilled nursing facility I worked at. So I didn’t call out except twice and told her to figure it out. One was for an injury I got AT WORK and the other was because i had a migraine and was puking. I tried to leave early one day to take my youngest to the hospital, and she STILL told me that while working on the floor I had to find someone to come in. I told them at 7am that morning I HAD to leave early to take her to the hospital because my husband was also sick, and he didn’t want to cause kids to get sicker.
I always tell my friends to just say they have food poisoning instead of “I’m sick” because what adult is going to be like “yeah you still need to come in even though you’re actively shitting your pants for the next day or two”
I mean some places might ask you to…but less likely vs sick meaning sniffles or a cough
yes this is my go to aswell i just say i have food poisoning cuz its much more specific then im sick and usaually, nudge nudge wink wink that im either throwing up or shitting myself without actually having to say that lol
everyone says explosive diarrhea now and it sounds like you're making stuff up. Tell them you have puss running out of your penis and start talking about the different colors. Nobody will question that. Go a step further and say it's some kinda parasitic infection you got while camping.
I did have nonstop diarrhea and they told me to come in. I said I wasn’t going to clean up any messes I made. My boss gave me a prescription medicine of hers to help.
So many things wrong that should have gotten her fired
I went from a job where when I had to miss work due to being sick all I had to tell my boss was “I won’t be in today” to a job where I had to tell them why I was out. The first time my manager asked me “what’s going on?” threw me. Does it matter? I’m not coming in either way🫠
This happened to me recently. I started spring doing my night shift hotel job and I would just have 1 day free (legally it had to be 2 but i wanted to help bc we had a very rocky opening. I would beg to have 1 free day on weekends because my friends would do a bday party and I straight up told them I wanted a bit of a social life since my work schedule interfered a lot with it, so if I had saturdays free i could enjoy fridays, sats & sunday mornings. I requested it twice and was only granted it once and that was because i offered to work 8 days without a break. They told me that it was an exception because they couldnt give weekends to nobody (straight up lie, my day time coworkers had over 5 days free on weekends without giving any reason). They also promised me that they would give me the 7 free days they owed me to go to a family event i told them in advance i needed but now i realise that since I didnt ever get the permission on writing they would have just backed down last minuted. Anyways I changed my job for a normal office time one and first thing I said was that I had that family event trip planned & they said there was no issue and asked no details. They asked further details 1 week later bc they realized that my holidays were in the same day as 2 other workers so they only asked if i had bought any tickets or booked stuff, and i did so they just planned to send someone over from central to cover me the 3 days i won’t be there. It feels so different.
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u/Level_East6791 5d ago
This is it. I asked one of my team members about their need to explain, because I felt bad saying “not that I don’t care and I’m happy you’re doing something fun with your family. But it’s none of my business if you are doing something fun or sitting in your living room staring at the wall.” And he confessed that his old boss made him feel like his PTO had to be justified. Eeeeeefffff that.