No reply from boss

[RudeBoss]

So I've got covid and am pregnant and feeling really rubbish today with a temperature, headache etc. I emailed my boss to let him know that I wouldn't be working today and I've had no reply. He's been sending work emails to me since and has asked others to do some work for me on my behalf so he's definitely read my email.

AIBU to think that it would be polite to reply to me. Just a simple ok, hope you feel better soon email? Or am I just being overly sensitive?

I think its weird he didn't at least acknowledge OP as well

I wasn't copied into any emails. I logged onto my laptop to see if I needed to get on with some work and realised a colleague had already started it for me

Thata not what you said before and why would you.....you are sick. Your op says, you were aware he had passed some of your work to colleagues. So you knew he was aware and had read the emails.

The whole emailing another ‘director’ thing is a bit of red herring I think.

I am a ‘director’ in my company - doesn’t mean I am anything special or run the organisation. It is just a rank in the hierarchy.

I’m sure if I was to be in the office with someone they would message me to tell me. Most likely as we would have probably planned to go for a coffee. I wouldn’t go back and tell their line manager that they had messaged me

I dont get why you would log on to your emails later on in the day to check if you needed to do any work, if you are ill, you leave it.

I've done this, I've failed to reply until many hours later because having seen their email I've had to slide straight into figuring out who's going to pick up x, y and z, sorting that out, moving stuff round and before you know it saying the obligatory (and meant honestly) 'hope you feel better soon' has taken a long back seat.

Also, if you're ill, I expect you to have sent the mail and gone back to bed, not be waiting on my acknowledgement unless that's a specific part of the process, which I suspect it is not.

So what if he is passed off with you being sick? It's neither here nor there in the overall scheme of things.
In my last pregnancy I was off for 4 or 5 days. Tricky pregnancy. My tone deaf boss took delight in telling all and sundry about how he couldn't rely on me. He then broke his leg and was off for my last 4 weeks. By the time I had returned, he wasn't there.
Something I wish I has learned much earlier I'm my life; if you are ill, take the time you need to get better. Certain people will decide you have shown disloyalty to them just through being ill. Nothing you can do, you can't reason with an unreasonable person.

i logged onto my laptop to see if I needed to get on with some work and realised a colleague had already started it for me

Huh? You emailed saying you were too sick to work but then logged in to start working?

@betwixtlives

i logged onto my laptop to see if I needed to get on with some work and realised a colleague had already started it for me

Huh? You emailed saying you were too sick to work but then logged in to start working?

I wasn't aware if my manager had read my email at this point or passed over the work so I logged in to see if I needed to forward onto a colleague or attempt it myself.

The thing with wfh is you can be ill and still check emails and forward urgent stuff on if need be

Why did you email the director? You knew manager had received your email so I don’t understand why the director needed to be alerted?

@betwixtlives

Why did you email the director? You knew manager had received your email so I don’t understand why the director needed to be alerted?

To let him know I wouldn't be in the office as I wasn't sure if the other director had let him know.

The second director emailed back to say thanks for letting him know and hope I feel better soon

So you’ve had a response from work, presumably the 2 directors talk to each other so the first one may no the second has replied. Why do you need a response from both? You emailed 2 bosses, one replied saying feel better soon, job done.

You seem ok OP spending time messaging on here. Hardly dying. No safety issues. If you hadn't heard from your boss at 11.23 when you started chatting online it probably wouldn't have killed you to give your boss a buzz. Maybe they have been given a time critical piece of work to do and has to focus on it. Email isn't always available if doing an important task/meeting.

@RedChapter

You seem ok OP spending time messaging on here. Hardly dying. No safety issues. If you hadn't heard from your boss at 11.23 when you started chatting online it probably wouldn't have killed you to give your boss a buzz. Maybe they have been given a time critical piece of work to do and has to focus on it. Email isn't always available if doing an important task/meeting.

Wow, I'm surprised by some of the responses on here! I didn't say I was dying.

It's a tricky one feeling pretty shit and like you can't focus on anything and just want to rest up in bed, yet because most office workers now have the ability to work from home it's rare that people actually 'call' in sick. (or email in my case)

The 2 directors probably haven't spoken to each other. They don't really work closely together, I just work closely with both of them. Obviously if they had both been in the office then I'm sure director 1 (my actual manager) would have told director 2 that I wasn't working today.

A quick call and you'd have been done, no need to be online all day if you can't focus. Job done, back to bed, time to rest. If you don't get a reply to your email, pick up the phone.

@RedChapter

A quick call and you'd have been done, no need to be online all day if you can't focus. Job done, back to bed, time to rest. If you don't get a reply to your email, pick up the phone.

OK sorry boss, I'll call you next time

Sorted x

Maybe as you are off sick, he didn't see the point in replying, as you know, you are off sick and too sick to work, so shouldn't be logged into emails!