I think my boss is actually....

[bupcakesandcunting]

I texted my boss this afternoon to give her a heads up that I will be calling in sick tomorrow as I have been diagnosed with gastroenteritis this morning. Explosive shits, projectile vomit and now dry heaving, the lot.

Four hours later I get a reply saying basically she wants me in as she is sick and she wants to go home when I get in! Bear in mind she had a lot of random sick hours off over Xmas and the fact that I covered her last week even though I'd started feeling ropey by then. I sent her a reply saying that unless the diarrhea stopped, I wouldn't be going out anywhere. She relied then saying she will need a doc's note?! WTF?! Oh and she threatened me with a phonecall to my area manager ( common practice for her when she can't get her own way) I am so annoyed. On top of feeling like death I am now feeling shit about work.

Have posted about her conduct before, BTW...

OMG bupcakes! I thought my ex-boss was bad. Defo keep hold of all texts etc and have a word with her manager when you're back on your feet

If I bought a dress in a shop and picked up norovirus which it sounds like you have, I would be EXTREMELY pissed off. It is insanely infectious.

YABU if you went in. God, hypochondriacs are a pita. Not only do they 'get' every disease going 'of course' and have to take time off, but no-one else is allowed to be ill and to take the attention of them.

off them. obv. And I call myself a sub editor...

I'm thinking about it.

We just had a girl leave who took my role over when I went on mat' leave. She was on the cusp of filing a grievance with HR about the manager then she didn't because she didn't want to cause shit. I'm seriously feeling like taking it up with them...

"YABU if you went in. God, hypochondriacs are a pita. Not only do they 'get' every disease going 'of course' and have to take time off, but no-one else is allowed to be ill and to take the attention of them."

Exactly right, in a nutshell. She had swine flu, twice She is THAT bad!

at the pregnancy story.

On the other illness matter-Surely work health and safety rules would state that someone must not come in within 48 hours of last bout of sickness or diarrhea, especially if you work in a shop where you could pass it on to members of the public!

As for going to the doctor for a note- your GP would not thank any patient turning up in the surgery with D&V.

When you are feeling up to it I really would contact the HR department to clarify the rules on this. Your colleague sounds barking!

p.s. Hope you feel better soon!

I am fascinated to know how the posters who have poo-poo'd (sorry) bupcakes' illness and said she should go to work, think she could manage in a shop with a d&v bug.

Perhaps she should just keep a bucket behind the till so she can vomit in it or use discreetly if she has a bout of diarrhoea whilst she is serving a customer?

Honestly, the woman is squittering out her insides and throwing up - would you want her serving you in a shop? Or shitting sitting next to you on the bus on her way to work?

If your children were ill in this way, southeastastra, would you send them to school? Risk them passing on the bug, or getting caught short in the classroom, or vomitting all over their exercise books?

Am feeling very buoyed by the sympathy I've been getting on here. Thanks, girls

GET BACK TO WORK YOU LAZY BITCH

YOU GET BACK TO WORK YOU BASTARD

Or isn't the red light area open yet?

oooh, good come back buppy.

Have you done a sick and a shit at the same time yet and dirtied your toilet floor?

Children, children!!

I've not been here much lately, have you missed me terribly?

I've missed you.

You sourfaced cuntbucket.

I have no sick left. Or at least i thought I didn't. Then you showed up.

aw.

Have you been doing that bile thing and then the shaking?

That's pretty funny horrible

That exact thing. I quite like it.

Are you making that noise that goes

"hhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccckkkkkkkkk" and then a little dribble of bile comes up?

That's my favourite. I woke up at 2 this morning and my stomach was going "bubble bubble RUMBLE bubble" and I thought "oh no, here we go" but then I went back to sleep and I'm fine.

So y'know, bad luck to you and all that.

(I am so going to catch the norovirus after all this horrible stuff I'm doing to you. Karma is a bitch)

I've got this new internet that lets users post their germs to other users.

Did you just do a spicy fart, Shirley?

I might have done a fart, I'm not sure.

I do know that if I did do one I didn't follow through, which is all you can ask for in these dark days of D&V plague.

Shirleyknot..your terminology amuses me. Thanks for the laugh. I will do your subject tastefully...elsewhere.

lol at bupcakes and shirley

oh and get well soon bupcake

Thank you Amber.

Am feeling much better than I was as in I think that the sickness has stopped. I can handle the squits.

Shirley you would never know the difference if you had followed through, with the state of your undercrackers and all.

Oh no, sorry to hear that Euphemia :( Plenty of fluids and bedrest, if you have. DH has just gone out to get my next batch of Lucozade which he will leave on the bedroom doorstep and I will fetch when he is safely downstairs. This must have been what it was like to have Medieval bubonic plague.