Ok so, I live in NY and atm we are experiencing Winter Storm Nemo. I called my boss to let her know I was calling out bc my boyfriend, who had graciously offered to drive me to work tonight got into a car accident. Nothing major, some cuts and bruises and some car damage. But he was shaken up from the accident and I didn't want him to drive in it again to take me to work.
Now instead of asking me "is he ok?" and such she tells me she wants me to provide proof so I can get paid for the day off. LIKE I GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE PAID TIME OFF! I'm just glad he's ok. And how exactly am I going to provide proof of someone else's accident. Its not even mine! that's such a violation of his confidentiality bc he's not an employee. I mean if she had asked me if he was ok I would have explained that I was just going to take the unpaid snow day, but she wasn't even that courteous. I'm just so pissed at how rude and cold she was about the whole thing. She didn't even have to find coverage for my shift. My shift supervisor who was very much more understanding about the whole thing found coverage for me and had informed all the necessary people about my predicament. Proof...UGH!
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#1ThePiedPiper commentedEditing a commentI'm sorry to hear that. :/ Unfortunately, I feel like people ask for proof because enough people try and lie their way into paid time off. For example, one of my professors asks to be provided with obituaries if the person misses a midterm or final due to death, and that the obituary needs to be provided in person along with the explanation. As horrible as it sounds, she said she'd been deceived one too many times by students who failed to study and so used the dead family member excuse (she also says more students come to her with dead family members around midterms than any other time) in an e-mail to try and get out of it. It's horrible and ruins it for the rest of us who are actually honest about it, but it's for that reason I can sort of see why she asked for proof. Some people get compassion fatigued real quick, and it's depressing knowing that many people lie to get ahead. :/
I'm glad your SO is okay.
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#2rubydissolution commentedEditing a commentHonestly its more so that at my company if you call out on a snow day you are not allowed to take a sick day or a personal day. Its just an unpaid day off. In order to get paid I would have to submit another reason for my being out. Even it was me just being sick. But she has given my co-workers hard times for similar things.
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