To be sick of being made to feel like a lazy lier for phoning in sick?

[QuestionableMouse]

I've got tonsillitis and feel like death warmed up. I'm meant to be in work tonight and tomorrow but there's no way I can go because I'm not well enough and can hardly talk.

Phoned up and got my stores business manager who gave me the third degree on my symptoms, asked if I'd be in tomorrow and then hung up on me! It's left me feeling like he doesn't believe me and basically thinks that I'm lying. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I've been off twice this year, once with a migraine where I'd vomited so couldn't work and once with D&V.

Anyone else's boss make them feel like this?

If you are well enough to call multiple people to come in and cover you are probably well enough to work.

Yeah, because lifting your phone for a few mins is on par with a hard days work

I had such bad tonsillitis I was admitted to hospital, put on a drip and the infection spread and I was dead for 2 weeks.

My boss still made me feel like I was the worst employee of all time even though I had about 4 days off work where I was so poorly I could swallow my own salvia, couldn’t eat and ended up vomiting blood because I was eating ibuprofen like sweets on an empty stomach.

I went back to work 2 days after being admitted to hospital and she said “you really need to start taking more care of yourself, if you’re feeling run down you should take a couple of days to get back to health” ... this is after ringing and texting me everyday to see if I could make it in or just ‘see how I feel at lunchtime’

You can never win. Just take it on the chin and think even though work is important, you matter too and you should be putting yourself first when it comes to general and mental health.

Deaf** not dead!

Yeah, because lifting your phone for a few mins is on par with a hard days work

It is when no ones answering, your stressed cos you will be on trouble for not showing up and when you finally get through to someone you have to go in til they get there anyway, cover lunch breaks before you go home, agree to come in on your day off in return, or race down there to hand over keys...

Easier to get up have shower to try and feel little bit human and take slow walk..

Takes the piss. Should be simple so.peole can go back to bed and sleep ot off

@SarahTancredi

Don't be ridiculous

God I hate this. I work in a school and it's the exact same. It's a complete pain being off ill, you still need to email in work for your classes and it never gets done properly so you end up behind when you come back, when you already have more than enough to do. I went in even when I had such bad morning sickness that I was sick in my classroom bin, when I had laryngitis and a chest infection and couldn't talk etc. etc. No-one calls in sick unless you absolutely have to.

You are still treated as though you are faking it, or doing it as a personal insult to the head teacher to make their life difficult. Not one ounce of sympathy or 'feel better', just 'when do you expect to be back' and 'email your work in to your line manager'. It's a lovely environment to work in.

I knew from your first post that you were talking about McDonald's.

I once phoned in sick with norovirus and my business manager told me to come in anyway and they could send me home if I really was ill.

He wanted me to handle food while I had vomiting and diarrhoea. Twat.

I did report this to head office as a health and safety issue but got fobbed off and I got a discipline for my absence.

I literally danced out of that place when I left.

My previous job was like this. I had hyperemesis and my boss didn't believe me even when I lost 2 stone and was sick at work, once 20 times in a half day.
My current job where I have been for 4 years is lovely. The attitude is if you're sick you're sick. Some people take the piss, fairly openly, so you can't win!