To think this is mean

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Where I work (very big well known coffee shop) if you are Ill unexpectedly you are required to cover your shift yourself or you have to come in.

This morning a young girl I work with has messages on our group chat to say she is being sick and in a lot of pain, all our store manager has to say is she needs to call everyone to ask if they can do her shift today.

She has been very short and rude with her the poor girl, so now in between going to the toilet to be sick she is having to ring around other staff and other stores to try and get her shift covered.

AIBU to think this is just mean? Why is this not the job of the manager? I've never worked somewhere before that would make you feel this bad about being ill. Nobody wants to be ill, I really don't think it's fair.

That is awful. I used to walk in a cafe and went in once after being sick the day before. I was given short thrift and sent home immediately. Covering my shift was up to them not me too.

Thank you all for your replies, for those of you asking it is not company policy but it us what this particular manager has always done, and from some of your responses it seems she is not alone!

As the day got on yesterday my manager and other colleagues tried to bully persuade the sick employee to come in and just wash dishes, despite her saying she literally could not get off the toilet!

They all made her feel very bad for being ill and she now thinks that everyone hates her 😩 I feel so sorry for her. It's awful being that I'll and then not only being forced to call everyone and ask them to do your shift but to then be made to feel bad about it too.

And I would love to name and shame but I don't have the guts! Sorry, wimping out in that one.

I wish I knew would i knew who they were I'd have zero qualms whatsoever in reporting them to the relevant bodies. The first place being Environmental Health

Exactly. Environmental Health all the way.

Message the poor girl so she knows everyone doesn't hate her and bloody report them!!!

100% report them. No way should someone with D&V, or even just one of those, be in a place where food is being sold. Even just to wash bloody dishes!! Nope nope nope. They have no concept of how to run a clean operation if they think that's ok.
Environmental health is the way forward.