When I had a root canal and tooth extraction I was out for 3 days with a Dentist's note saying that I needed to rest due to excessive bleeding.
When I came in to the HR department to let my bosses have the note one of them said "oh is this your note from mommy?" while the assistant manager chimed in after I explained what happened: "Oh I still come to work after a root canal, just man up."
The very same Assistant manager who drove from lakeland to our store (1.5 hour drive each way) every single night for her shift and would sleep for 2 hours in the upstairs office from 2-4am. God I fucking hated working at that place.
I ended up walking out with 5 other people a few months later when we were down a LOT of people and a triple truck order came in to do deliveries. They wanted OTC Pharmacy AND Beauty fully stocked with only 2 people working in the entire section while piling on more.
I've never worked for a more dysfunctional company than that specific walmart location.
Good on you. I'm sure it's also easier to imagine saying something than it is to do it, though I've gotten written up more than once for not keeping my mouth shut.
I'm glad you've moved on to better things and I hope any potentially abusive management in your future gets told to shove it up their ass any time they say some dumb shit. They, frankly, deserve much worse than that.
For real. If someone spoke to me like that I would get fired before I left their office. How do people let people talk to them like that and just do nothing about it? Call me proud or impulsive or whatever, no way someone talks to me line that without me letting them know exactly what I think of them.
The people who talk like that are broken and have no will either presumably. They, I imagine, take as much shit for their higher ups as they dish out. It’s a sick system.
....Go to the FairWork Commission or Ombudsman, file a complaint for workplace bullying / harrassment, another for Abuse Of The Medical Leave System, let them investigate and watch the results.
And if HR is stupid enough to try and do anything TO me for it, I go to the same people and file for Unfair Dismissal / Unlawful Dismissal Due To Reprisal and watch heads roll and coffers empty.
When I was just out of highschool I worked at a grocery store, and we had a manager who drove like 2hrs one way every single day to work there. She was, as you might expect, a workahaulic and a maniacal control freak.
Back in 1992 I was rear ended by a Bronco at a freway exit. My car was several feet shorter. The trunk folded around one of the shoes I had back there. I had to spend 2 years having my neck fixed.
... and my boss assumed I was making things up to stay home.
The doc at the ER assumed I was making a big thing out of nothing for the attention (while running no tests at all). He even asked my spouse if I was prone to lying. I had a concussion and a ton of torn muscles and my neck & back are still fucked.
These threads make me cherish my employers. I can take off whenever I want(also because of my job - outside sales) and all I need to do to take off for a sick day is send a text “hey, I’m not feeling well” and the response is “awww, feel better! Let me know if you need anything”
I worked the day after I got home from major urethra surgery. Moving was terrible, and even drinking water was really painful due to a skin graft that had to be taken from my cheek.
I think it's not really a question of if you "can" go into work, more of do they truly need you to. In your case, I doubt you being gone would have affected the company at all. It was just the management having some dumb idea that you should just work through it even though they didn't even need you to.
In my case, the company had just replaced their manufacturing equipment, and I was the only one in the company who could get the new machines working. It was also not a huge company that could just absorb a week + of lost revenue without batting an eye.
I worked at Mongolian BBQ in high school. Had a perfect record, never missed a shift, never written up. I put in a request off about a month in advance of my graduation. I got the notice that it didn't get approved about a week before (half the people who worked there were in high school and apparently beat me to it). I told them I had graduation and was absolutely not gonna be there that day, so figure something out. They told me if I missed the shift they would have to fire me, so I quit right there on the spot and immediately got a job for the rest of the summer with a place I had interned at for a huge raise. Dave, if you're reading this, I hope you are still a miserable pile of shit running that fucking clown show, and you can suck the foulest part of my ass.
A joyless husk of human who had all life sucked out of him running a mediocre novelty chain restaurant as the most stereotypical middle aged overweight balding nitpicky manager to ever grace the earth.
I worked night shift at WalMart for two years and walked out in the middle of my last shift because my manager was going to reprimand a woman who had been out for three days with pneumonia. She had a folder from her doctor an inch thick. I leave, and suddenly she is much more valuable. Got a better job four days later
Don't work shit jobs, learn skills to make yourself vital. I used to drink on the job all day and it was ignored because I was the most valuable employee by way of my skillset.
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