I know, reading people's experiences of this in hospitality would put you off eating outThe amount of stories here of people who work in public facing roles who are being told they still need to come in when clearly ill with sickness or diarrhoea is terrible! Not only is it not fair on you, or your colleagues, it's not fair on the members of public who you're being forced to face! I can't believe how harsh some managers are!
I actually find big companies are more compassionate about sick policies, partly because they have such a strict HR rules that manager cannot side track from that. It is usually the small fry companies that think they can blatantly ignore sick policies and benefits entitlement.At my last job, I had to leave early because my wisdom tooth had become infected. I went to work that morning though in pain, face swollen and unable to really focus on my job (I worked in clinical trials so I needed to concentrate really!). Anyway my manager let me go early as I managed to get an emergency dentist appointment - she was really understanding about it. Went back the next day and she called me into her office - asked if I’d actually been to the dentist, like why would I lie you saw the pain I was in yesterday. I got the antibiotics out of my handbag and showed her them as ‘proof’. I had to have the wisdom tooth taken out eventually and used 2 days a/l for it as I knew I’d feel rotten the day after the op.
Honestly every job I’ve had, I’ve been unfortunate with managers. I now work in academia (pgr researcher) and theyre a lot more flexible with sickness, family emergencies.
I don’t know, I worked for a huge Japanese finance company here in the uk and well... I’ve already said how that played outI actually find big companies are more compassionate about sick policies, partly because they have such a strict HR rules that manager cannot side track from that. It is usually the small fry companies that think they can blatantly ignore sick policies and benefits entitlement.
HAHA! Bless you I know is shit isn't. I am half SE Asian and used to live in Asia for many years. Different culture and totally not worth the stress and politics.I don’t know, I worked for a huge Japanese finance company here in the uk and well... I’ve already said how that played out
I worked for a huge American company (think mouse) and our sick policy was HORRIFIC!I actually find big companies are more compassionate about sick policies, partly because they have such a strict HR rules that manager cannot side track from that. It is usually the small fry companies that think they can blatantly ignore sick policies and benefits entitlement.
I got told this when pregnant regarding my midwife appointments when I worked in a supermarket. Pretty impossible to book appointments outside of work hours when your shift pattern literally changes from one week to the next, but they didn’t care or make any effort to accommodateI was also told recently after telling my boss i was going to be 20 mins late for a blood test that I'm not allowed to make doctors/dentists appointments in work time but I work 8.30 to 5 so it's almost impossible. She didn't ask me what the blood test was for or if i was okay either.
I’ve had this in my last job! My manager watched me fill the form in! This was half a day taken as sick to go to the dentist with wisdom tooth painThe idea that you have to have an interview to return to work after having ONE measly day off is horrendous! I'm lucky in that we simply have to fill out a form which states the date we were off and a brief description of why (writing "felt sick" is fine). I can't imagine how demoralising having to sit and have an interview about your one day off must be!
I too worked in hospitality for years, working at various venues behind the bar. You should never have been allowed to work behind a bar if you had a sickness virus and the fact that your boss caught the virus off of you, was proof enough.I know exactly what you mean! I used to work in hospitality and they would have wanted you in even if you were in a full body cast. I once had norovirus, the worst of which had been over my 2 days off but I still couldn’t keep anything down/inside so phoned to say I’m really sorry but I am too ill to work and worried I’ll pass it on to someone else. The landlady of the pub I worked at’s reply was ‘but *** hasn’t had a day off and he’ll have to stay on if you can’t come in’ I was like finedragged myself in, somehow worked a 10 hour bar shift. The next day I got a phone call ‘can you come in (6 hours) early, ***** (the landlady) is really ill and can’t be on the pub floor’ I was so pissed off not only was I not allowed a day off sick, which would have been unpaid too! But I was having to go in early because she’d made me come in and obviously caught the virus off me, it was karma though too
Proper grim what goes on in hospitality. God knows how many other people I passed it on to pouring drinks and taking food out
In my new job, I once ended up getting rushed to the doctors from the office as it was the middle of summer 30 degree heat and I was violently shivering, I’d ignored a UTI which had become a nasty kidney infection. I was sternly told to take time off if I need to to go to the doctors or call in sick! It was a totally foreign concept to me to do so!
8am-2pm, not 8pm-2pm. Fuck that!Another time I was leaving my house to go to work in the morning and was in a bit of a hurry as my taxi was waiting. I lost my footing and fell down the steps at my front door and landed awkwardly on my foot. I jumped up in shock and somehow managed to get in the taxi (I think I was definitely in shock, the driver hadn’t seen me fall but he did comment that I looked chalk white, he made a joke about being hungover and I just sort of awkwardly laughed it off). I think I was in such a daze that I barely said anything, focusing too much on trying not to cry.
Anyway, I got to work (care home, half shift so 8pm-2pm). I stayed and worked my entire shift as I was so nervous about asking to go home, despite the fact that I was in extreme pain especially towards the end of it. My foot was so swollen I couldn’t get my shoe off. In the end I called my then partner at the time as my shift was finishing and told him. He picked me up and took me to the A&E straight after my shift. By this point he had to help me in because I was hobbling. I had tore the ligaments in my ankle and was signed off for 6 weeks but ended up going back after 4 because I couldn’t afford anymore time off. The SSP was just enough to cover my rent and nothing else. I still get pain in that foot to this day (worse in Winter) and that was 9 years ago.
It’s just the way they make you feel guilty to the point where you end up sacrificing your own health and well-being just to make up the numbers. I still feel guilty when I have to call in and I have the silent war in my head over it, but since Covid I wouldn’t hesitate. Your health should always come first.
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