Once manager asked if I would cancel 1 day in the middle of a Thailand holiday
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I was on vacation for a family event. I got to the airport and my flight had been canceled until the next morning which meant I was not going to be at work the next day. I called my boss......she said rent a car. It was a blizzard the roads are closed. I would be arrested if I was on the interstate. She wrote me up. HR called me in. I saved every paper and note and dictated her conversation. HR said they were dismissing the write up. Apparently the CEO got caught in the same blizzard and crashed his car and he is in the hospital. My manager was reprimand and wrote up. Apparently blizzards are dangerous weather and people get hurt.
Terrible, she was endangering your life with that non-sense. And hopefully the CEO learned it's not worth it
I had a similar experience. I was the only one running a satellite insurance office. One winter day we had freezing rain. Could not get up a road hill near my house. Went another direction, and my car slid into a ditch. A kind farmer pulled my car out with his tractor. I drove carefully home, and called my employer. Told him I wouldn't be in. He didn't ask if I was alright. He yelled at me telling me it was my responsibility to be at work. Fortunately later that year I found another job, and quit.
who'da thunk it
I can’t count how many times I risked my life as a manager for a soulless company!
You were fortunate. Once HR gets involved they seldom dismiss write ups even if you didn’t do anything wrong but are accused of something-I’m guessing she wrote you up for insubordination, that’s a favorite one for HR. But for your manager to get written up instead tells me she’s bad news if HR flipped the switch on her. This isn’t the first time she tried screwing with someone and this time HR couldn’t substantiate her bogus claims.
I had the opposite occur. I went on a honeymoon for 3 weeks in Italy. I gave 6 months notice and my manager held a short 5 minute meeting with the other leadership to figure coverage and she took care of everything. A few days before my trip I asked her if I should take my work laptop with me. She was like "Goodness no leave it at home and enjoy your honeymoon, we've got things handled here. When you come back let me know if you need a refresher on anything or have any questions." That is how a manager should be. I seriously appreciate her.
lucky you
You know it's a messed up world when you're in the middle of reading a wholeaome story constantly expecting it to change for the worse. I was expecting you to end on your boss calling you in suddenly or something and then blaming you when you couldn't.
Tis is a good example of a great leader, but sad to say that u can only find tis kind probably 1 in a million. 😅
Yep. Same experience with a lady manager i have. Since we are perma wfh, she usually don't mind me being away of a lazy day. Mind you she is strict on work but when it comes to leaves or being away for family she is super supportive.
She was "like" ? Did she "say" something? Did she "think" something? She "was like" means nothing in the english language. Your employment should have been terminated for nonsensical grammar.
"Why should I care about the job if the job doesn't care about me?"
Damn right! I am a mercenary at work - I am there for the paycheck and nothing else!
Why sure boss. Just get me 3 extra vacation days, and the money for a return flight, plus 3 extra days of the hotel for me and my family.
I'll also be invoicing the company at my consulting rate for this phone call. Have a good day!
@@bificommander7472 you are correct 👍
Still not worth it.
@@Trazynn Yeah but the prospect of having to pay that much just to get one employee back for a shift is likely to make them stfu about it
@@m0L3ify you are probably right.
"it's just one day", yeah exactly, you can do without me for one day, close the office that day if it's such a big deal, it's just one day.
I worked for a grocery store in Florida and our store manager had a bad habit of when he was about to fire an employee, he would take them into the milk cooler and cuss them for anything and everything. It made him feel powerful because they couldn't complain about him because they were going to be fired anyway. My day finally came and i was going to be fired (not a problemfor me at all). He told me to go walking with him and when we started to go towards the milk cooler I told him that if he said 1 cross word to my in any shape or form, i'd leave him laying in a pool of his own blood. He stopped and told me to just leave. Totally worth it. 😊
Was it Publix?
I feel like you can still report that to HR, if you're still an employee when he does that then that is wildly inappropriate behavior, especially taking an employee to a private one on one chat like that? Most of the time if a manager is going to reprimand or write up an employee they have to have another manager/supervisor there to witness it.
So you didn't sock him?
@@RetroendYou know it was.😂
"Take them to the milk cooler", that could be in some horror movie.
Businesses/managers need to lose the phrase "team player" out of their rhetoric. They don't seem to understand what it means.
There needs to be a "manager swear jar" of sorts. Every time they say "team player" they have to put USD100 into said jar.
“Company man” is an alternate phrase. I’m a contract worker and my scheduler wanted me to service a client I said I’d never go to again. After my rebuttal I’m not sure he’ll try that phrase again.
"team player" is a term reserved for oxcarts pulling wagons.
I chuckle, sometimes, when I think about a boss telling me to do something that a great many people could have done, while I was in the middle of doing someone else's work. They looked at me as I explained that I was already in the middle of "not my work" and they said, "it's called being a team player"...
Ours was “step up”. The office dynamic was odd. It was a insurance brokerage, so like a middle man between you and the insurance company where we do all the leg work and you just don’t lie to us about what you need coverage for and pay (both are issues to get from people but that’s not important right now). We worked in teams. The “head” of the team was the broker, they’re sales men and not actually our bosses or anything just the person that talks to the client and we can go “insurance company XYZ won’t do it even though they’re supposed to” and the broker will scream at them for us. I was an account manager, so I managed the paperwork (accounts) of the clients. If you needed something changed I do the paperwork. On our team we had the broker, two account managers, and one account manager assistant (their job was checking to make sure the day to day changes were done correctly and bill the client). While the account managers had a “team lead”, also no real power just someone who was supposed to be our go to for issue and run it up to the boss, kinda thing.
So our AM team lead’s team (orange team and yes we did it by colour) had about three AM, an assistant AM and the AM team lead who was a marketer (which is a whole other job) had a AM out sick and asked me to cover for him. I did.
Next day my AM partner for my team (green) was on a scheduled day off and I was covering for her. am team lead asks me to cover for Orange team’s guy that’s still out sick and I go, no. My partner is gone. I can’t to the job of three people. Ask someone else. (There are like five teams about about ten AM’s)
So she’s like, I really need you to step up right now.
Ohhh I was fucking pissed. Orange team had two other AM’s and my team had me! So I told her exactly that and that maybe she should “step up” she got huffy and left.
Later I asked the orange team AM’s if they got it covered for the man out and they were like, yeah? One of us took the morning and the other the afternoon. It’s fine. Just utterly baffled why I would be worried about them being too busy to cover his stuff. I told them why the team lead said and they were even more confused. Why would she ask you to cover??? We’re right here. There’s two of us and one of you already covering for someone else??? The hell is wrong with her??
She never bothered to hide how much she didn’t like me after that
_I really don't care about the logistics of it._
Clearly upper management material.
Funny how managers don’t care about logistics when they are not the ones that need to manage them, isn’t it?
@@wilberwhateley7569 This
@@wilberwhateley7569The worst part is I have bosses like that. I work in a warehouse....
@@cavareenvius7886 That's insane! I don't know much about warehouses at all, so I have to ask: is not-caring-about-logistics in a warehouse a counterproductive and counter-profit attitude? And if so, how much is your company shooting themselves in the foot by keeping that boss in their current position?
@@longWriter I live in Germany. They have a very weird approach to leadership, just take a look at our politicians. ^^
Who all agrees with me that this bullshit needs to be illegal for our bosses to call us back into work when we are on Scheduled vacation and out of State or Country.
in civilized countries it is.
@@teslatrooper85 verbatim what I was about to write
It has just come in in Australia
I dont mind my boss calling me on scheduled vacation when its a legit emergency or they are really screwed... but, I also work for a really good company that takes care of their employees, so give and take I guess...
Once you're on vacation period
I've been the caller. I had mixed up thier vacation with someone else's. I apologized, wished them well and moved on to ask a different person.
We need more like you. What's your opinion on cloning
Once had an employer, back in 1984, who had the county Sheriff's office in Oregon hunt me down using a loudspeaker on a stream where I was fishing. I was on the first vacation I'd tried to take in four years. I had to leave my party and fly back to CA to fix a machine "...no one else could repair." The day I quit these folks was the day my life began to change its trajectory for the better...
Glad you made it out of that hellhole.
The police let your employer abuse them in your employer's pursuit to get to you, wow.
That is so sad, I thought jobs were better back then. History repeats itself. I hope you’re still doing good.
@@houski4242564 It isn't so much that jobs were better, they just got better pay (i.e. a living wage) and benefits.
@cairosilver2932 the police love shitting on people's rights and defending corporate parasites
This. The worst thing I've tried is, I had to go away Monday to Thursday to take a course in a city 300 miles away (it was a student job in high school and the course was part of my education). I gave them a 1 month notice, a 2 week notice, a 1 week notice, and I mentioned it in casual chatting in the office EVERY day of the last week before my trip. Yes, they called me that Monday and asked why I wasn't at work. I reminded them I was doing some extra school stuff. They asked if I would be coming to work tomorrow. I reminded them it was Monday-Thursday. Tuesday, they texted me and asked why I wasn't at work, I replied with the answer form yesterday. Wednesday, they texted me again asking where I was, and I replied the same. Thursday, they texted me AGAIN, and I reminded them I'd be back tomorrow. They seriously called or texted EVERY day of my trip! I was just a student worker, I should not be that important, but they liked to dump parts of their own work and all cleaning duties on me, so I guess they missed me.
The sad truth is your job was essential. Yes it might have been easy like cleaning and other simple tasks, but believe me there are college graduates who work at well known companies with above average salary and they don’t do half the effort that you did at that job. Minimum wage jobs are the heart and soul of every billion dollar company. However they refuse to pay them with decent salaries (even though they can afford too and still be filthy rich) they will do anything to exploit their employees more.
Next time you get to go somewhere block their number.
My boss just called me on the weekend to work overtime….while I was on my way to my daughter’s wedding…two days after I had told him…for the fifth or sixth time…that that particular weekend was my daughters wedding…..
My boss did the same when my father had a heart attack the same day I started a week-long vacation.
When he first became manager I was a part-time college student granted flexibility for the tuition benefit. I had an 8am class one semester, and he started calling me in a complete rage every day at 8:31am, threatening to write me up for not "checking in" before heading to class.
Years later I deduced he had all the traits of OCPD and many from NPD. Complete nut job.
And you said "no", as it is your right. Right?
I went to Canada for a trio once. Specifically told my boss that I would be unable to come back due to someone else driving me and that I would not have cell phone coverage once I crossed the border. I repeatedly reminded coworkers and left a note. As soon as I crossed the boarder back into the states I had multiple missed calls to see if I could come into work to cover shifts. Too many jobs just don't care.
Charge 24+ hours of overtime for travel time, plus the 8 hours of work, plus the cost of the last-minute tickets for the flights. That single shift of work just cost the company over a two weeks of pay.
And they'd be forced to pay it, too.
This past June my father had a heart attack the day before my planned vacation. It was already a challenging change of plans for my family, and everyone at work knew my situation. The OCPD manager could not resist manufacturing an "emergency", and by the third day of my vacation he was texting, calling, emailing, and DMing me on both personal and professional numbers.
I took vaanother vacation this July and I made sure to block his number.
Emily should take a lesson from Veronica, and block her manager's number outside of work hours 😂
😂
this happened to me once and my boss called in the middle of my great aunt’s funeral. my mom took my phone and went all the way off on my boss. after the service she called my boss’s boss and hr and told them what my scandalous boss tried 😂 it didn’t end well.
i was inconsolable at the time. i was crying so hard you couldn’t understand me and that’s why my mom took my phone at went off on my boss
When my mom passed away I called my boss and he told me to take the time I need to get things in order and he cleared everything with HR and my work. I had the time I needed to concentrate to get everything in order. He was a true leader who stood up for his people. He was one in a million.
@@draconis3606so lucky because some of these bosses out here ain’t worth the air their breathing
@draconis3606 Same. My mom passed suddenly, I told my boss I would be out rest of the week and back next. He said absolutely not. He told me to take next week off at minimum and then let him know how I was doing.
You have an amazing mom.
So glad your mom was looking out for you ❤
manager be like: "what... thailand. Isn't that just a few miles from here on the shore?"
Seriously: I worked for the US Gov't for awhile and we had this boss that was really messed up. He actually called one of the women that worked in the office when she was in the hospital after a car crash. He wanted to know when she'd be back in the office and then when she told him she was on extended medical leave he started pressuring her to come back right away..... like he wanted tomorrow. They had just moved her out of critical care. This guy was (india) indian and looked down on women. He had several complaints written up about him. After he was found to be literally YELLING at this woman on the phone and then harrased her when she did come back: they demoted him.
He then filed a discrimination complaint.
Such an asswipe!
HE filed a discrimination complaint?? Lol the audacity!
of course he did...
That's one of their traits. They will cry victim when called out and put to their place. These people really need to check their attitude
@@mushroom2493 Yep. He did. He filed a LOT of them while I was there. He was such an egocentric idiot too.
Several years ago, my fiancée and I were on vacation in the NE US. We lived in WHYoming at the time. We were ignoring work phones and her boss's phone, so, two days after we arrived at our vacation spot, her boss called from someone else's phone.
Her boss opened by asking her, "... can you come in tomorrow for just an hour or two?"
Her boss was absolutely livid when she was told, "No, we're over 1800 miles away..." This was after her boss was told, repeatedly, where we'd be and how far away it was. -_-
Had a boss who insisted i come into work during a travel ban and state of emergency. Claimed the roads were fine. Even if that were true, there was still a travel ban and state of emergency that had yet to be lifted. I told her i wasn't comfortable driving when i was not supposed to. She punished me by changing my hours and proceeded to scold me like a child the next day. Basically told me during work hours she owned me and I was not to tell her I wasn't coming to work, she was the one who told me when to come and go. This was also the lady who lost her mind when i gave her 5 months notice about a family vacation (unpaid, btw). Was shocked as all get out when i went back to my desk, typed my resignation and left.
A boss told me I was never to tell him I didn't know something. From then on, until I transferred to another department, I told him I didn't remember whatever. Including about things he hadn't told the team about yet.
@@carriebryan1211that's actually not bad advice, you just didn't understand what the boss was trying to teach you. I learned from my dad to never say "I don't know", you only answer one of three things: "I know how and I will do it" "I'll figure it out and do it" or "I don't want to do it" if you don't want to do a thing tell them straight up that you refuse, if you don't actively stand against something then go figure it out. It may take you a lot longer than someone who has the actual skills in question, but after you have the skills they stick with you for your entire life!
@@wolfrig2000and the reason this is better than saying "I don't know" is...?
@@vlastelinprislic286 In my view that person had terrible advice. Why waste hours inventing the wheel and making huge mistakes that will need fixing later when you can say "I don't know" and get the appropriate training?
IM ON ANNUAL LEAVE AND IM LITERALLY 12 HOURS AWAY IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.
"WHATS YOUR POINT?"
I WILL SEE YOU MONDAY.
*CLICK *
(BLOCKS NUMBER)
Sibling died on Monday. Tuesday they asked me when I was coming back and I said Idk. The next day they called back again and said they needed me today and when I said no they flipped out. I just hung up the phone and never went back again
❤❤
❤😢 Sorry for your loss.
I had a similar experience with a job I had while in grad school. I had my degree, I kept the job for another half year after that, with a planned break before starting two different part-time jobs. Two weeks before my scheduled employment was to end, my mom passed away (a full 12 hour drive away, mind you). They called to ask if I was going to make up the 2 weeks. Hell no, I'm not. That was 31 years ago and I still have occasional flashbacks about it.
I would report this to HD and file a formal complaint , simply because vacation is on file in advance and this constituits harassment and a hostile working environment so your protected from retaliation and if anything comes of it you an sue. Bosses always cross that line hat we each have that's a no no
Manager: “Why can’t you come in for one day?”
Me: “Because the cost of the return flight is less than what you’ll pay me. Forget logistics, I’m not working for NEGATIVE MONEY!”
They should pay for the extra flights, as well as your travel time. And also give you those vacation days back.
Precisely why I ignore calls from work when I'm on leave.
The fact the manager is in a hair styling machine while holding this convo is out of pocket 😂
‘You called while I’m on holiday. Now, instead of coming to work on Monday, I’ll be in Tuesday. If you call again, I’ll be in Wednesday. Do you see how this works?’
How that conversation got that far is amazing.
Before I retired, I was fortunate to work for a company that would never ever exploit its employees--not so long ago. It continues to thrive and to keep valuable employees. Yes, it "costs money" but it also gains immeasurable dividends. These employers are rare like fine pearls, but they do exist. (Before I worked there I was employed for one day at a book distribution center, during which time the owner threw a silver paperweight at my head and also told the publishing staff that we would have to clean the toilets ourselves because there was no money in the budget for custodians.) From the ridiculous to the sublime.
True story: I scheduled a week off for my daughter's birth. I scheduled it over six months in advance. My daughter was born Friday night, this began my week off. My boss called me in on Monday morning. We had a huge argument about it in the middle of a meeting on Monday. Her compromise was that I could take a half day off each day that week.
Damn dude, no way I would have gone in even if Jesus himself had a third coming and asked me. But if you’re in the US I know your labour laws can be weird
What!!! 🫠
Damn.... guys, start a revolt. I get the BARE MINIMUM (EU regulations) for birth leave as a father (meaning the rest of the EU is better off): 5 days at full pay for the birth. 5 additional weeks at 70% pay, to be used within 6 months after birth and 9 additional weeks at 70% pay to be used within the first year after birth. Additionally, I could get an extra 17 weeks unpaid.
Of course my boss didn't like the new regulations, but screw him! Raising my daughter is a bit more important than those meetings I'm missing.
Never compromise with your boss. Ever.
@@annekekramer3835
I got dick for my first born. They changed the policy before my second and I got one week of paid leave. Welcome to America. But women at the company get 8 weeks off. I know it is MUCH different for them but if we want to talk about equality, then is it not just as important for a father to bond with their newborn and shoulder some of the burden from the mother?
I begin to hate the word "teamplayer" Can't you be a teamplayer for just one day?" Trying to make you feel guilty. And the manager seems not to listen or to process the sentence "I am in Thailand" judging by the reply "What's your point?" Would the manager pay for the extra flights and the two lost days of vacation? I don't think so. And if she would promis that... as boss of the manager I would ask her if she is crazy to call someone back from Thailand for just one shift.
Her mistake was answering the phone 💀
Never never never never never answer a work number when on holidays never never never never never never never never never never never never never. You are just a number and most companies large majority don't give a damn. Have a backbone or order one from Amazon
I full on quit a job and moved about 1200 miles away. Old manager never properly took me out of the scheduling software, so about a year later, I got a call from a new store manager threatening to fire me if I didn't come in. Like "Um, I quit that job. I don't work for you and I live sixteen hours away"
"Stop making excuses! I'll see you at 4 this evening or you're fired!"
"Sure, man, do whatever you need to do."
You should have told him where to go.
If you weren't busy you could have had fun showing up and being a complete wanker at work creating all sorts of funny situations until you got fired. When you get fired they have to give you your last check right then. Make sure they give you that check! Have a blast!
Would be hilarious if you applied for unemployment and got it as a result of that idiot
No problem boss. Just need the corporate credit card for the 1st class ticket & cab. Then of course I'm on super OT for the shift + 24 hours minimum. Probably won't be much over $50k. 😂
Before I retired, I was fortunate to work for a company that would actually do this--not so long ago. It continues to thrive and to keep valuable employees. Yes, it "costs money" but it also gains immeasurable dividends. These employers are rare like fine pearls, but they do exist. (Before I worked there I was employed for one day at a book distribution center, during which time the owner threw a silver paperweight at my head and also told the publishing staff that we would have to clean the toilets ourselves because there was no money in the budget for custodians.) From the ridiculous to the sublime.
I've actually had this happen
Lived in a different province from family, but went back home to visit for Christmas, had booked the time off, and my restaurant job calls and insists I work the next day. Tell them I'm a province away and they insist I need to be in so I laughed and told them it wasn't happening
Just ludicrous
Same deal, but it was a closed/empty college dining hall, and one of the co-managers liked to change schedules while I wasn't there to contest the changes. She really acted like I would just make it back 5 states away in 30 minutes.
I got called into work when I was in Disney World once. Luckily the manager was just exasperated and hung up, haha
Alternate scenario
_* Phone rings, Emily doesn't answer *_
Karen (texting): Emily, call me.
Emily: What do you want?
Karen: Just call me.
Emily: Tell me here or leave a voice mail.
Karen: Why can't you just take the call?
Emily: Because I have a suspicion of what you want and I want a record of what you tell me to send to HR and your boss.
Karen: Why are you making this so difficult?
Emily: Ok, hold on.
_(a few moments pass)_
Emily: Ok, I just downloaded a call recording app, which I will be using when I call. Do you still want me to call?
Karen: ...
Emily: ?
Karen: Enjoy the rest of your vacation.
Same boss that schedules holiday when the busiest week of the year comes up.
Hmm well I would have been like
"sure fly me back on company dime and compensate or reinstate my vacation time you are interrupting including travel time... Don't just say yes or sure cause I will need it in writing! And the tickets need to be purchased by the company. Not by me to be reimbursed! But by the company! I will also need meal vouchers for there and back before the trip. I also will need reasonable amount of time to get from the airport to my residence to have reasonable amount of rest as well as the opportunity to don appropriate work attire. Oh and I will require that you compensate me for this phone call and any others while I'm on vacation"... Then they say no and laugh... "Oh come on... Why are you not being a team player?!... You're the manager... You should be able to MANAGE that right?... Come on... Be a team player just for one day..."
It blows my mind. Why does the person you have to cover get a pass? Or, cancel your hair appointment and do it yourself.
Let the phone ring or turn it off. If it's work, why answer?
I mean, it was literally stated in the video you watched "I didn't mean to answer" so sure, but that don't apply here
I literally block everyone from work, and all work programs for alerting my phone from the very minute I go on vacation until the very minute I get back.
i had a separate phone for work, and i turned it off every night, and left it at home (turned off) every holiday. (besides, in the UK, managers don't expect their staff to be "on tap" like that)
@@kathrynwhitby9799 you mean on call
"I will be absent from n to m"
"idk... we have a..."
"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you on time so you can organize "
Get in touch with manager's boss and HR.
Some bosses will willingly cross lines they would not allow from someone else.
Someone I know doesn't even take their phone with them when they go on vacation. It's such a good idea. You don't even see/hear it when they call you. And you can still take an emergency phone for your most important private contacts.
Never feel like you have to say yes to your manager. It's their job to manage the people and themselves.
"Sure honey. So it will be 12 hours business class flight plus transportation from the airport to the company and back, and also 12 hours business class flight back. Please book the tickets for me before hand, they should be around 4000 dollar per flight."
The moment she said “what’s your point” I would hang up the phone
Nurses work 12 and 1/2 hour shifts..the 1/2 hour is deducted from pay because of lunchtime, but we still had to take calls and deal with patients even though we were not getting paid for that 30 minutes...I would give my phone to the charge RN and move on to lunch, without any concern..I stated that if I had to take my phone with me, then I would have to be paid for that 30 minutes...The charge took my phone every time, problem solved...
The solution here is simple.
Step 1: Assure your boss/manager that you will be in on Thursday as requested.
Step 2: After politely ending the call, turn your phone off and disable all communication avenues that your job might use to contact you.
Step 3: Enjoy your vacation.
Step 4: Upon return to work, deny all knowledge of any phone call or conversation regarding coming in on Thursday. Insist that you never spoke.
Omg...gasp...you're my super hero. ❤❤❤
I was on a big family vacation for two weeks in Hawaii. I was already mad because my company was making me come back three days sooner than my family, but I knew that going in. The iceholes called me on day 8 to order me to come back an additional 2 days earlier. It was like my boss didn’t listen to a word I said before leaving, that I was going to Hawaii. He actually told me to just buy a ticket for the earlier flight. I laughed at him and asked him what my hourly pay was, and he really thought I could afford that.
"I'm not really concerned about the logistics of it" That's half of the problem
I was on a business trip and on the next to last day I got mild food poisoning. and was too sick to travel much less get on the plane .The new person in the travel section told me I had to take sick leave, pay for the hotel out of pocket, then pay for change of travel plans and be back to work as scheduled or take annual leave. After she finished I pulled up the copy of travel regulations I kept on my computer and sent her a copy with the citation for 'Ill while on travel' for her to read. I got my new tickets, the hotel was paid for, didn't have to take sick leave, and she got lectured at by the chief of travel.
I remember one time I gave my job my army drill schedule when I started working there on my drill weekend they called and asked why I was not at work.
My husbands company couldn't promise our wedding off. And they called three times on our week ling honeymoon.
I once had a boss try to reprimand me for “not showing up for the scheduled shift”…and I was like no duh, I was LANDING AT THE AIRPORT on my final day of vacation. I was 19 and terrified of getting fired, but that made me grow a backbone and remind her that whoever made the schedule didn’t read mine. She just went “oh. Oh, I do see that here.” No apologies.
Heh, I've been there, except it was my grandmother's funeral an 8 hour drive away. Fun times being able to tell them to piss off and then blame it on my emotional state from the death in the family
Yeah, I'll come back on Thursday, to clean out my desk. 😂
I was on a 2 week vacation, day 4 I recieve a call, in the wilderness, 3 days from the road, manager demanded I be at a shift he scheduled me for, while I was on vacation. I told him to pound rocks, and turned my phone off.
I carry a small solar charger when hiking. Just incase. Still don't know how I even had reception though.
This is what working in the UK is like and then people wonder why hiring people is so difficult nowadays.
I was called for an open overtime shift once while I actually took my vacation time, instead of working it and getting paid double. Next time I took my vacation time, I put a note in the overtime roster (done by seniority) book politely asking people not to call me for any overtime that needed to be filled while I was on vacation.
I had somthing like this happen o me I requested a certain amount of days and one day in the middle of it was rejected and I told my boss ahead of time I’m like so I’m not coming in that day I’ll be in. The middle of nowhere in the mountains
I used to work in finance in the UK and we were required to take a two week block of annual leave once a year without contacting the office while on holiday. It was actually an anti fraud measure, so if any scams occurred while you were away you couldn't cover them up
My friend had a similar situation. Being security we have rest days so she booked her holiday with her rest days in the middle. Work scheduled her on one of those rest days and didn't tell her, then phoned her to ask why she was late. "I'm in Spain". "But you are scheduled to work". "I'm in Spain on my annual leave". "But you aren't on holiday for those 5 days in between". "Yes, because they are rest days". But you have to come in". Nope. You can't schedule me for a shift without asking me first, that's the point of rest days".
The argument went on and on and the app edit showed she had been scheduled after she had started her annual leave. Her write up was cancelled and she never faced any repercussions. I've had it happen to me, and all they said was "You should have checked your rota". Son, I've worked the same rota for 8 years. I can tell you what shift I'm on Christmas day 4 years from now. If you want me to change then pick up a phone and call me. I'm not checking a rota that never (normally) changes from one year to the next.
"hello? Yes? Boss?! You'll need to speak up, the line is really bad due to me being on the other side of the planet from you! You need to cover your sh*t?! Have you tried waiting for five minutes and flushing again?! OK, good luck. Eat more fiber. byeeeeee!" *turns phone off*
i would turn the air black and blue on a call like that.
I remember my boss calling a supervisor to come into work while she was in the middle of a funeral she took off for it because it was family and she would be back the next day but he still called her demanding right smack in the middle of the funeral in the middle of the day to come in another time I just got off a cruise and I still had one day left of my vacation I remember I was at a Wendy's in Austin after almost 3-hour drive back and on my phone he messaged asking me to come in a day early hell no I'm off tomorrow I ignored the call and when he brought it up at work I said hey I was out of state and he asked where? and I said somewhere across the Atlantic
It's like talking to a brick wall sometimes
Do people loose their minds getting in shift manager position or they are just stupid but anyways reach to that position.
That's lame on the manager's part 😒.
That sounded like Rowen from Viva La Dirt League
@Revenant_Knight That's a pay cut! Also I'm writing you up for dropping that pen. Now excuse me, I'm very busy, I've got all these free computers to give away to people who buy flash drives. Sheesh!
"You do realize that if I am to get there, you'll need to pay for my time worked, compensation for vacation time lost, the plane tickets for getting there and leaving, and any fees and/or expenses related to the trip, right?"
Was leaving for a ski trip Got someone to cover a meeting I was suppose to be on Told the manager that
15 min before the meeting On top of the mountain my phone rings I was stupid to answer
Asked if I was still getting on the meeting I politely told her I’m on vaca and i won’t be on the meeting And I hung up ….
I've had that kind of manager and I've had the other kind of manager.
More people need to speak up to this kind of manager and let them know that it's not acceptable, what they're asking. Document everything, and keep it handy.
12hoir trip? It would be physically impossible to get back to work on time unless you left that very second. 🙄
It sure is only one day, but it also is only one week out of 52 and you can't respect that
DO NOT ANSWER ANY PHONE FOR WHICH YOUR EMPLOYER HAS THE NUMBER. KEEP A SECRET SPARE.
This is a bad manager. The fact she doesn’t have anyone else who is not on leave to help out is poor logistics on on the company's part. Also, haven't they heard of working online? Why does she physically need to be there?
Might be an in person type job, retail, or construction as examples.
It's not one day. It's three days at least, coming, going, and resting with all that time zone change. And that's assuming she can even afford the extra flights! Cause I don't imagine the company's guns pay for that. Terrible management.
I have a good manager luckily. When my father passed away she made sure I had enough time as I needed to grief.
If I’m on vacation and work calls, I’m not even gonna answer lol 😂
That’s a textbook example of manipulation
Conversation should have started and ended at "I know you're on holiday."
"Good, see you next Monday, bye!"
"Alright. Since we're a TEAM, and we HELP each other: You'll happily 'help' me by paying for my flights from and back to Thailand… right?"
"No? Well I can't believe this. Why aren't you a team player?"
100% had my manager messaging me when I was in Rome. I just didn’t answer so I didn’t get international charges. She was also messaging me in Ireland this year to help design logos and I don’t even work for her anymore!!
I wouldn't even be entertaining this conversation because the only thing my supervisor would be getting while I'm on vacation is v/mail. Period.
It takes one sentence "I'll be contacting HR"
Had a manager like this once. I laughed and hung up.
I can’t ……. And yes jobs are like this ! Sky ! One thing I would have added is that she would have to pay extra for a last minute flight back, not even sure what day the call was made, totally ridiculous and then she’d have to pay a whole new flight to go back? Like….. jobs sucks. Find a way to make your own money online. Jobs steal your precious time away !
Gods that manager is an utterly clueless dc, and a perfect example of the peter principle in action.
Lol. I love that I have a sane person for a manager in my team.
He'd never do this to me. Heck, if I got a work related call from him while I was on holiday, it'd only be because he'd forgotten that I'm on holiday. I would immediately get an apology and he'd leave me be.
The manager should be a “team player” one of these days and do the work instead. At one of my old jobs my boss was named Karen and she was awesome. Always explained exactly what I should be doing and when and how, and when I made mistakes, she clarified her instructions. Also wouldn’t have pulled this crap.
This is the type of stuff my grandmother does to me and the rest of my family.
LoL! I'd ask if she was recording the call... and regardless of her answer she would get a good 2 minutes of foul and very personal insults from me before I laughed and hung up. Then I would block her number until I went back to work after the vacation was over. And THEN I would go to HR and let them know exactly what happened and tell them they needed to give me a good reason why I shouldn't call a lawyer.
"Alright, well I'll need a ride heres where i am"
You report this and your manager gets a grilling
I answered these types calls two times on my days off or on vacation. Just dont answer it people! There is no reason or law or rule that says you have to answer YOUR own phone or emails.
At my day job, I'm a supervisor in a large government agency. I once had a boss who who insisted that I take my company cell phone on vacation. My husband and I were on a trip into Northern Alberta and Manitoba. My boss wondered why I didn't respond to e-mails. I tried telling her that the only way I could get internet service was to go into a nearby town. Luckily she left and we got a new Field Office Director who said that our vacations are our vacations and not to worry about bringing our company phones. I made a point to call my team together and told them, light heartedly of course, that I was going on vacation and not to call me. I then put my phone inside the safe in my office as I told them that.