Colleague skived to go on coach trip

[Margaret103]

A colleague told me they took day off work to go on a coach trip. Aibu to think I should tell our manager?

You really didn't have to do two people's work. You should have just done your own, at your usual pace.

As a manager, if someone came to me and reported a colleague like this, I would think very poorly of them. Possibly even more poorly than of the person who had skived off to be honest.

Nobody likes a grass OP.

I wouldn't but I'd make it clear to her that if she did it again I would be reporting her. Piss taker!

Good for them.
Don't be a snitch.

I hate this. Nobody should be so affected by their colleagues days off (sick or otherwise) that they end up with 2 people's work. It's poor management. Your colleague's days off are between them and their manager. Your workload is between you and your manager.

Your mistake was overstretching yourself.
You should have worked at your normal pace and been very clear that you could not take on the extra.

Did they call in sick?
How did you find out they'd lied?

It did directly impact me as her workload was then added to mine so made my day extremely stressful

But this is a failure of your manager, regardless of the reason she's off, her being off should not screw you up, your managers failings are not your colleagues.

Ooh ya clipe.

Why did she even tell you this??

Unless you can prove it I'd probably not make trouble. The next time they do it can you refuse to take on the extra work?

Don't be a dobber - just book your own coach trip.

If it's a one-off, I'd mind my own business. What's done is done now, and good things rarely come out of being a snitch.

You need to speak to your manager about your workload if it isn't manageable with one staff member off work.

I'm sure one day you'll end up 'pulling a sicky' for one reason or another so perhaps don't dob someone in for doing it once.

If they do it on a weekly basis or something silly like that then that's a different story

Margaret- people can have days off. They're called days off. Sometimes they tell people "I'm having a day off to go on a bus trip". Etc.
Even if she pulled a sickie, your manager would think you were about 7 if you dobbed them in.

It did directly impact me as her workload was then added to mine so made my day extremely stressful

In that case maybe it would not be unreasonable to inform.

However you are being highly unreasonable in using impact as a verb.

So was it a sickie, or a day off?

It seems unlikely that someone would book a coach trip and then just call in sick for it.

I’m disappointed in this thread - I thought you meant your colleague had gone on the actual show with Brendan.

Are you sure she didn't put annual leave in for it? I might say I was skiving off on a coach trip if I had left children behind and it was midweek so a treat to myself but I'd have AL in.

Nah… just file it away for future blackmailing purposes 😉

@Toottooot

I’m disappointed in this thread - I thought you meant your colleague had gone on the actual show with Brendan.

Me too!!! Was very excited cos I love Brendan.

Took a day off as annual leave? They don't need to explain why to anyone.
Took a sick day? They were a fool to tell a colleague.

Presumably you’d have had to have covered if she had booked holiday? So the only issue is that with a skive day you have to cover one more days than you would do if she only took her annual leave entitlement?

Just have a sickie and even out the score. And if possible try to get in first booking leave on dates when she might want it.

@LubaLuca

I wouldn't snitch unless it had directly impacted me, but I'd tell the colleague to keep those sorts of secrets to themselves in future.

yup, also gloating knobbery should get its comeuppance

Ooh lucky, I wonder where she went?

If she booked a day off, then the person you should be cross with is your manager, who should perhaps not have agreed to her taking that day off when it made the workload unmanageable. But people are, generally, allowed time off from work, and if their workplace is then understaffed that is, again, a management failure.

I wouldn't say anything unless it became a problem in the future with you covering their workload again.