My husband and I both work in the same place but on different projects. Both projects are very small and really suffer if someone is off sick. The sickness rate for the other staff on the projects is quite high.
We both took this morning as annual leave as we have been away at the weekend for a wedding. The wedding was yesterday so we took this morning as annual leave so we could set off back, drop DS in school and then get into work for 12.30.
All planned in advance with work and school and all good.
In the car on the way home my DS throws up a lot. I check his temp and it is high so not just travel sickness and we come to the conclusion he can't go into school. One set of grandparents are abroad and he other is staying at the wedding town to spend some more time with relatives. So this means either DH or I can't go into work.
So I ring my boss and explain and I ask if any of the projects are short of cover and which one of us would be best coming in- me or my husband.
My boss says it is our decision so I say fine I will come in and DH will stay at home.
When I get to work my boss goes mad at me calling me unprofessional for asking her and as our manager I should not have put her in that position.
I explained that from our point of view either of us could have come in, we both work the same hours and do the same days just on different projects so before making the decision we just wanted to check if either of the projects was down on staff. (Just for information we have never been off with DS before when he has been ill)
She said i need to thick before I act and I said I was thinking. She called me insolent and to never do anything like this again.
Also when she did this it was in front of 5 other members of staff, 2 of whom are new and I have never met before as they they started today.
So did I do wrong?