36 weeks and counting....
I've had this cold and slight cough for awhile now, but today it hit me. I think I have a sinus cold, but anyway my head hurts, throat hurts, whole body is just aching, I just don't feel good. To top it all off I'm hella pregnant. I had a diabetes appointment this morning, which I cancelled last minute because I seriously did not feel good. These appointments are very important and for me to ditch it cause I didn't feel good obviously means I don't feel good. So cancelled that, but still decided to go to work knowing that I'd just go home early. But then I thought why not just stay home. So I called my manager and here's how the conversation went, quote/unquote:
Me: Hi Lee this is Cherry I can't make it in today because I don't feel good.
Her: Are you kidding me? (Her tone was like are you fucking kidding me)
Me: No I really don't feel good.
Her: Well Des just called in and Rena won't be able to do everything.
Me: Well, I really don't feel good and won't make it.
Her: It's still pretty early why don't you do a late shift?
Me: I am on the late shift and can't make it through the day I really don't feel good.
Silence
Me: I'll just call you back later.
Her: Can you call back around 1pm?
Me: Okay, bye.
I start to cry. No for real I just started to cry. I did cause I felt hella sick and couldn't believe that the first thing she said was are you kidding me. Why the heck would I be kidding? I was very very upset and still am. She is hella like that with me and honestly I was planning to go to work around 3 or 4 to purposely pass out just to get her ass in trouble, but Dee's right that just shows her she can boss me around. But you know what, she can't this time. I'm really sick and am not going to play Miss Nice Girl. Everytime I call in sick she always asks for a doctor's note even on the 1st day and I give it to her cause I have nothing to hide. When she asks me to switch up my schedule I do. Like on Tuesday I scheduled a spur of the moment doctor's appointment at 2pm and asked to get off at 1pm, but because we had this big meeting with the big boss she asked if I can switch it to 4, which I couldn't, but instead worked from 3pm - 9pm just so I can make it. So if I had worked today I would've worked 3 nights. Ughh!!! Can managers do that? Can they basically say no you can't call in sick cause there's no coverage? It's not thier buisness, right? |