To be furious at being sacked via text message?

[PurpleOne]

Been fighting the flu for the past week, so not been to work.

Am self employed cleaner BTW.
Text client Monday and told her that I'm struggling with the flu and won't be in, and could we arrange another day?
Didn't hear anything back so assumed everything was ok and went back to bed with my Olbas Oil.

She text me last night and it said 'really dissapointed about yesterday - really needed your help. Don't worry about coming back'

Can't even remember the last time I got sick and had to take time off.

AIBU to want to fire a really angry text back at her...or should I just leave it?

just leave it. texting her back will only give her more ammunition to bad mouth you to other potential clients.

Are you sure you've been sacked? Maybe she just means don't worry about rushing back while you're sick. I would have thought so.

definitely don't text her back in anger, it might feel good at the time but it won't help in the long run. I would just say something like 'I'm sorry you feel I've let you down, I would have come if I was well enough to work. All the best PurpleOne'

and leave it at that.

She's clearly rather unreasonable.

i think i'd send a letter or email for clarification as to whether or not you're actually sacked.

What a bitch, this is so rude. Who the hell does she think she is?
Don't text back though, I wouldn't stoop to her level.
Hope you get well soon and good luck finding another job.

bit ambiguous really, she could well have meant like said above, not to worry about when you can come back, take your time getting better type of thing. Can you not telephone and clear it up?

i don't think you've been sacked, you just lost a customer. is she your only customer?

YANBU to want to send it, what a cow.

Don't do it though. Good suggestion from LMDFJ.

Assume the best. Text back to ask if she means don't worry about coming back as in only when you are better, or not to come back at all. If she doen't reply, assume the latter.

I think you should leave it until you feel better because this could just as easily be a kind text as a nasty one, and you don't know until you talk to her. If my cleaning lady was ill that's the sort of thing I would say to her (well the second part anyway), as in don't come back until you are better, not as in get lost. If she had said don't bother about coming back that would obviously be the former, but don't worry makes me think the latter.

YANBU!

I feel for you as my DH was fired from his company by email

Isn't it better to do these things by phone? For this reason.

Sorry but I read that as "don't worry about coming back until you're feeling better".

[glass half full emoticon]

She's not my only client, but she's the one who pays the best.

She seems to forget that I worked for her on Xmas Eve while DD1 and 2 went shopping for the food and worked Bank Holidays for her at no extra cost.

This is the woman who never opens her windows, even in the height of summer. Tumble dryer blasting, lights on all over the place...and sneaks in piles of ironing for me to do. Ironing isn't part of my job TBH, but I never complained about it. It's money isn't it. I never even complained when the temp in her kitchen peaked at 101 degrees.

You are right though, it is bloody rude.

I am left wondering if the client actually got your original text - she doesnt refer to it. Maybe she thinks you just didnt turn up.

Either way, I am afraid I would not read any kindness into it.

Even if she didn't get the text, surely a 'hope everything is okay?' reply would've sufficed?
She knows about our home / personal situations and it just doesn't sound considerate!

Other poster is right, you've not been sacked you've lost a client. Sounds like she was a bit of a hard client to work for anyway, expecting all sorts above and beyond the call of duty.
That sort of client usually comes grovelling back later on.
I'm self employed to, and if a client doesn't need me any more I just look on it as having a vacancy for a new client, that I just haven't found yet.

You should have phoned her to say you weren't going. Or at least made sure she got the message.

I would write to her and say that you were upset to be sacked by text message, that you thought you had been a good employee and leave it at that

should make her feel a bit bad but doesn't make it difficult if you see her in the street etc

Now that I have seen you complaining about her I wonder why you are bothered about whether she wants you back or not. There are plenty of jobs for cleaners and how can someone sneak ironing in? Does she put it in the oven for you to find when you clean it?

Sorry but I did actually read that as "Don't worry about coming back till you're better|" Are you sure that's not what she meant?

I'm pretty certain that's what she meant.

In the past, where things have been cancelled or swapped around, she would ALWAYS say to me 'See you next week'. And I would always offer her another day to come, or I'd say 'see you Monday then'.

INMGBSLM - she would 'sneak' it in by leaving discreet piles of it around the house, then when it was time that I was nearly finished, she would ask me to do it for her.
I'm not bothered about the fact whether she wants me back or not, it's just the sheer underhandedness in the way that she did it IMVHO.

how was she being underhand?

I also don't see how she was underhand. You sent her a text message, she replied in kind.