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AIBU?

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To not go to work?

33 replies

TenPointsForGryffindor · 08/03/2020 12:48

I've just received a snotty WhatsApp from a colleague (who even though he is newish to the company and inexperienced, seems to thinks he's my manager. He's not. I actually trained him) asking if I'm "going to bother coming in today".

I messaged back saying no one had told me I was in today. I'd had no notification to change of rota on my work app and hadn't needed to check my rota for this week yet. He then told me to come in ASAP and I told him I was out and can't make it in and apologised but reiterated that I was unaware I had be put down.

For background, I work part time set hours midweek due to childcare and they are aware that my DH is currently working 6-7 day weeks due to all the damage from recent storms. Although, if they ask, I often work 1 or 2 Sundays a month with plenty of notice.

I've now been told I need to ring my manager immediately to explain myself and face a disciplinary tomorrow. This will also go down as an unauthorised absence. My second one in 6 months for exactly the same reason. However, last time I was actually on HOLIDAY when it happened and they still said it was my fault!

So, AIBU to tell them to stick their job up their arses? Or am I in the wrong for not dropping everything and ditching my only day with DH and DC all month to work for minimum wage in a shitty environment?

It just feels like too much at the moment. I feel like I'm dropping all the plates and letting everyone down.

OP posts:
Stefoscope · 08/03/2020 16:33

Sounds really unprofessional that a colleague is questioning your absence rather than your line manager. Do you have a HR dept? I'd be querying the rota change, the interfering colleague and the previous 'unauthorised absence'.

sweeneytoddsrazor · 08/03/2020 16:52

I am a bit confused here. You say they can change it with a weeks notice but you haven't checked it for 10 days? Is this what happened on your holiday as well. Are they assuming you check your rotas weekly and let them know if you cant do a shift they have put you down for, so if they havent heard any different they assume the shift is ok for you to do.

DNAwrangler · 08/03/2020 17:05

If he getting in writing what the rules are. For example, that you need to look at the rota every Monday for the upcoming week, and any changes after that gave to be agreed in person. Because it sounds like wires are crossed somewhere. When I did shift work I certainly was required to check more frequently than every ten days

Falcor40 · 08/03/2020 17:50

Hahahah. Oops. Thanks all!

FazakAli · 08/03/2020 17:59
  1. Email them any proof of you not being on the weekend work rota copying in HR.
  1. Ask HR how the Junior colleague got your number if you hadn't shared it and it if it wasn't on a shared system without your prior consent.
  1. Also ask HR what authority this junior colleague has to threaten you with a disciplinary action & to demand your immediate return to work if you haven't been officially rostered for weekend duty.
  1. Call Acas for free employment advice
www.acas.org.uk/
Kawahara · 08/03/2020 18:03

It's really odd, of you know they add shifts in at the last minute, to not check your rota for 10 days.

This all depends on what their rules are and when you are expected to check. If today, is the final day of the working week. I would imagine you would have been expected to check it last sunday, before the working week started and let them know then if you couldnt do it.

If this is the case and you didnt check your rota for 10 days, then its you who is in the wrong.

Or if today is the first day of the working week, surely you should have checked (knowing they out you down for occasional sundays) in the last few days.

Brefugee · 08/03/2020 18:32

are you in a union? tbh you should have fought the previous one more because it's totally outrageous.

Join a union now. It won't help for this time, but next time you'll have help

GreyGoose1980 · 08/03/2020 18:48

Hi OP
Sorry you are going through this. However you need to establish what the procedure and timescales are for checking the rotas. Are you objectively In the right and they’ve changed the rota unreasonably or should you have checked it more recently than ten days ago?
I would also stop all communication of this nature with your colleague and advise your manager that you find the text from them (colleague) inappropriate and want all correspondence relating to your work to be between you and them (manager). Good luck

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