To be pissed off with my manager?

[dejags]

DS2 was sick yesterday - he woke up at 5am vomiting and feverish (I took him to the GP and he has tonsillitus and has been prescribed antibiotics).

We had an important meeting scheduled with a new client at 12pm yesterday. Obviously DS2 couldn't go to nursery so I told my manager that I would have to stay at home with him. He was ok with it as I had done all the preparation for the meeting and all he had to do was present my document.

All fine you'd think.

When I received the minutes last night, my manager put in writing that I did not attend the meeting due to my child being hospitalised???

I absolutely loathe using illness as an excuse - am I being unreasonable to feel irritable that he exaggerated DS's illness to look better?

When I meet the client next I am going to have to lie about it.

Well IMO it is unprofessional to do so for the reasons chequers states; personal issues have nothing to do with the matter in hand and (speaking as a 'professional') I would consider it unprofessional if I saw that kind of comment written in minutes

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But mentioning a child was ill is different to putting it in the minutes of a meeting! If I saw that I would just think how extremely unecessary it was to record that - someone is at the meeting or they are not and it doesn't matter why!

I see what you mean. If the manager has accepted the reasons for OP missing the meeting, it isn't neccessary for anyone else to know.

I thought that the OP was objecting to the inaccuracy of the minutes rather than too much info.

Who actually took the minutes... your boss? Or someone else/secretary? In which case maybe they just made a boo boo.

I would just be very upfront with client next time you see them and say, ooh no that was a bit exagerated to be honest, no need for hospital in the end.

The client prob won't give a stuff anyway!

My manager once announced to a packed meeting that X would not be joining us due to "being at home dealing with personal issues". It derailed the entire meeting while everyone wanted to know details.
It was not minuted though.
Now THAT was inappropriate.

But I think it should just have said "apologies" on the minutes even though he may have told the client verbally your child was very ill.
Perhaps he felt insecure? Some men are funny like that. Some people don't even accept a funeral as a legitimate reason to be off work, my brother had a boss like that...total work nut with no life.

I do agree it was a bit unnecessary of the manager to do that - 'apologies' would normally be fine.

But I think he is probably under pressure, felt he needed to make more of an excuse, rightly or wrongly.

I think clearing it up with the clients if OP feels necessary plus quiet word thanking boss for being understanding but would prefer personal details not to be discussed another time would be better way of handling it than being 'pissed off', which won't achieve much other than making it less likely manager will be sympathetic in the future.

Why don't you just ask your manager why it was put in the minutes?