Sick days are weird. Not the concept, which makes complete sense, but the total lack of understanding that can come from an employer about what “calling in sick” actually means. Like, yes, some people abuse sick days, but usually when someone calls in, they called in for a reason.
And holy shit this story from the U.K. is a prime example of why sometimes, you should definitely believe your employees.
So I worked for a big orange DIY chain in the UK. Super strict & arsey about time off, absences were green, yellow, red traffic light system. Yeah roll your eyes, it’s dumb right? So regardless of what was wrong with you, fully legitimate or not if you were at red stage you got a written warning.
I wake up one day and within a few minutes it becomes apparent that I am not well at all… I have a really bad stomach (I suspect food poisoning) I’m throwing up & other the other end ain’t doing so well either. I have full on sweats and shakes and cannot leave the bathroom.
So obviously I call in sick, HR was lovely and said yep no problem.
2 hours later I get a call from the deputy manager of the store basically telling me she needs me in. I repeat my day so far to her and explain how ill I am. She changes to well you need to come in because you are on a red absence & I will have to give you a warning. (I can’t afford to lose that job at all & this happened earlier in the year unfortunately so my next absence could end up being me getting sacked) So after a few mins back and forth I’m like fine!!
I literally drag my ass to work and walk through the main doors and my mate on the service desk immediately said “omg what the fucks wrong with you? You look gray!!” (Bare in mind I’m a ginger so I’m usually super pale anyway)
She said oh no you wait there I’m getting Lisa who was just a department manager there, Lisa then took one look at me and demanded I come with her straight upstairs to the manager’s office. She takes me directly to the store manager, has me explain to him and he is fuming that I’ve been called in. He asks Lisa to immediately drive me home….
I’m walking back down with Lisa through the shop floor & lo and behold there’s the deputy who made me come in. It’s at this moment 20 feet from the paint mix desk that my sickness bug came rushing back, I literally ran for the paint desk (closest bin basically) and due to the force of the vomit I literally could not keep my head down. I projectile vomited like the muthafuckin exorcist gal all over the desk, all over the cans of paint, all over the mix machine. Everywhere.
I look up trying to catch my breath and there’s the Deputy with this look of sheer horror on her face. Literally the only sound is store radio & dripping vomit. The store manager appeared a few seconds later and immediately looks over at deputy & says you’d better get a mop and I’ll speak to you in MY office once you’re done. Lisa please take Sarah home.
You see, Lisa was the manager of the paint department!! Haha so she got a nice half an hour out of work helping a colleague. And the shitty deputy had to stay and clean my sick off Lisa’s paint desk.
Lisa told me the next day she was still cleaning the desk when Lisa got back from dropping me off. And the deputy got a serious bollocking from the store manager and a written warning for professional misconduct.
Sweet karma!!
So glad now that I complied with her demands that I turn up! Was worth dragging my ass up there to get her put in her place!!
TLDR: super ill, made to come to work anyway. Projectile vomit all over a desk. Desk owner gets to take me home while manager that made me come in gets to clean my sick and receives a written warning!
Edited to say thanks for the gold!! 😎😎😎
SarahfromEngland
h/t Reddit
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