I work a night job from home, and recently had an incident with one of my DC where I had to take them to A&E. I contacted my manager to let them know I’d be logging in a bit late, they said it was fine. Eventually got home and logged in about 1h 20m after my start time. Manager kept telling me not to worry about logging in, they’d already put me down as absent on dependant’s leave, I must be knackered, go to bed etc etc. I ended up doing about an hour sorting through some IT stuff so I wouldn’t have to do it at the start of my next shift, and then logged off. But I would have been more than willing to complete the rest of my shift had my manager not repeatedly encouraged me to take the rest of the night off.
Now I’ve just been told that dependant’s leave is unpaid so I’m going to lose a night’s worth of wages (manager was apparently previously unaware of this). Manager is suggesting I put it down as annual leave instead or work an extra shift so I don’t lose pay. I’m annoyed because I would have continued and finished my shift, and now I either have to lose some annual leave or do an extra shift on my night off to make up for the lost wages.