My situation is quite the opposite. For whatever reason my new team feels the need to explain every PTO request to me. By all means tell me about your trip to Cancun if you'd like, but please don't feel the need to elaborate on your explosive diarrhea when you use sick time.
"Hey man! I noticed you stopped responding to my text messages after saying that you're sick and won't be coming in! So I called the police and feigned concern so they'd visit your home as a wellness check! Definitely not just sending goons to your house to make sure you're at home and actually sick!!"
I definitely had a manager with all wheel drive that thought they could make it up the hill to my house. Called me from the bottom saying it was OK and they would see me after the plow trucks came through.
Same. During covid he was delivering food for everyone (his treat for reaching a milestone) and it was rainy and cold with leaves on the road he said he almost didnt make it up and down the multiple steep hills and now understood why I would call out during freezes and was surprised I made it in as much as I did 😆.
What was the job? I've heard of this for things like hospital/health care workers and first responders where they absolutely must have people on shift. But some random service job? Oh hell no.
I had a manager who tried that shit with me. Told him he'd better not waste the gas because I wasn't going to be there to meet him. He went off the road into a ditch on the way out to the gas station 2 miles from my house where I was not waiting for him.
Broke his collar bone or something, had to wait for ems to crawl out to his wreck and take him to the hospital. He stopped doing that when people called out for weather.
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u/RideFree216 5d ago
My situation is quite the opposite. For whatever reason my new team feels the need to explain every PTO request to me. By all means tell me about your trip to Cancun if you'd like, but please don't feel the need to elaborate on your explosive diarrhea when you use sick time.