AIBU to think informing ten colleagues while off sick is unreasonable?

some migraines don’t last for days.

Don’t be a manager if you can’t be arsed managing people

I think it depends on the workplace. If I had meetings with external clients then I would be expected to cancel them myself. And to be honest if it was internal meetings I still would as wouldn't trust my manager to do so and wouldn't want them wondering where I was and wasting their time.

Just email them "apologies not in today unwell, catch up when back" job done.

Because, for example, if she's due to send someone an update to confirm the work was done at five o'clock, they won't know until she's late and they get an out of office message if they email her. Whereas if she emails them in the morning they can plan around that. It's not complicated.

Yes this.

When I have a migraine im in agony, id barely be able to ring one person let alone anything else.

Wow! I’m not sure who everyone works for, but as a manager you are breaking every confidentially rule going to share anything about a direct report being off ill for any reason. Yes, explain the reason for the absence to your manager directly, and that’s as far as it goes.

Having to take responsibility to communicate with anyone other than your manager (unless you personally wish to do so) is bang out of order, and should be taken up with HR.

Really you think cover teachers are actually teachers who can teach every subject?

We're lucky to get cover suprivisers who can actually control a class. Even cover teachers can not do practical lessons, so no DT, science or food tech practical work when a teacher is off sick unless it's a colleague covering and normally they are to busy teaching their own classes.

There are some mad answers here. I'm a manager. If someone's sick, they're sick, it's not their job to work or to reorganise work. That's what a manager is for - including making sure that urgent work gets done if someone is off sick.

By the same token, she put an OOO of so anyone that tried to email would know she wasn't available. Why does she need to personally tell each person?

I think it’s completely unreasonable . Really 1 person or 2 max should need to be informed if you are sick once you have handed over anything relevant regarding cancellations etc . A manager should sort that out on the sick persons behalf . Ten people is ludicrous. For confidentiality and dignity reasons for one thing. As well as that it shows a poor organisational structure if ten people need to be informed and is unprofessional in my opinion.

Does sound a bit unreasonable but I’d just send one email and cc them all in (or whole company just to be petty), and press send.

Teams usually gives a status update if Out of Office is on

I couldn’t have managed as much as you did with a migraine. My verbal skills, including writing disappear, and screen light would make me vomit.

Your OOO message should be sufficient for contacts. I'd think it odd if anyone emailed me as one of 10 people to tell me about a short term illness. It might be appropriate if you were going to be off long term, especially for something planned like surgery, but not for a migraine when you'd expect to be back within a few days at most.

Off ill is an umbrella term
if I was upto it I would do it if I wasn’t I wouldn’t and tell manager

I wouldn’t have a problem with being asked this

YANBU - my manager just says people aren’t on. We aren’t told why people are off but assume off sick. It isn’t their business (colleagues) why you are off!

So what if she's ill in the first 3 months?

It's not like people generally get ill on purpose...

Ive always taken the view that if you are not well enough to go into work then you are not well enough to deal with emails or take phone calls. If I suspected such was likely to happen I would switch all calls to voicemail or put a temporary block on the numbers.

I think by including the list of people, it would have come across as you suggesting that the manager needs to get in touch with them. Manager pushed that back on you.

Exactly, because that’s what managers do don’t they?

Best CC so everyone has the same email including manager. Keep it short, say you’re poorly. Do not be contactable or do follow up emails.

The most surprising thing about being off work with a “serious migraine” is that you were able to send anyone an email! And here you are the day after posting on Mumsnet 🤷🏻‍♀️

I had to email my manager in my old job if I had a migraine. I mean my email would be barely legible as I get visual disturbances and looking at a screen is horrendous, but technically I did email her.

Oh gosh, no. How ridiculous expecting someone with a migraine to contact individual colleagues and deal with the responses. Madness

in my place, with my highly effective and competent manager, it eould go like this:

”Sorry, I’m Ill today and won’t be working”

Then , I would put on an OOO saying I’m unavailable.

Manager would reply, “very sorry to hear that- get well soon”. The end.

You went above and beyond supplying the names and contact details for people who might need to be informed. This is literally why your manager is paid more than you.

Also, the sheer ridiculousness of the teacher employer expecting a lesson plan when you’re in pre-op. Just say no. No-one will fall over if a lesson plan is not forthcoming, anyone taking a class should be able to occupy rhe kids for a period/session/day. Exception being maybe if it was their last couple of lessons before a public exam. Many workplaces (particularly educational ones in my experience) have VASTLY over-inflated senses of urgency and crisis, and overly rigid approaches.

It was so much better in the 1980s when a teacher absence day was a day to do colouring, pretend play and dressing up. No-one died.

If I had a migraine I wouldn't even remember where I worked as my head would be a mess. But if I was off with a broken leg I might be able to cc everyone I mentioned .