to be hacked off with my work colleagues??

[MaureenMLove]

I'm off sick. Have had a d&v bug for the last 24 hours. Still feeling a bit rough today, but heaps better. I didn't go to work, because I know the rules for a sickness bug and I work in a school.

I am the boss of my department, so I didn't take the time off lightly. This is actually the first time since I started there almost 2 years ago, that I've had time off.

Anyway, I've just got up and switched the pc on. I have 2 of my colleagues on my Facebook. One posted yesterday about having a really shit day, worst day ever. The other said at 6.15pm she'd only just got in. She normally goes at 3pm!!

This morning, at around 7am, one of them has posted that she's already at work, when she's normally not needed until 8 and I've just had a text message from the person doing my job to say she's not well and she's going home!!

AIBU to think it's not necessary to a)bother me to tell me you're going home and b) broadcast on Facebook, knowing that at some point I will look at it.

I now feel like shit again for not going to work today or yesterday! Thanks girls!

You're the boss so she's telling you she's going home sick - sounds normal to me. She had to work extra hours to cover for you - is she not entitled to have a bit of a moan about that?

Facebook - tis the work of the devil.

i'm not sure what you're hacked off about tbh, so I'd say YABU.

Go back to bed and stop worrying!

Facebook is indeed the work of the devil! My boss is in charge in my absence though, and HR, so there really was no need to text me!

yabu about facebook imo. Why assume it was directed at you? If someone is off sick and you have to cover for them, you are entitled to have a rant about the "situation", even if you are not necessarily annoyed at the person off sick.

Texting you to say going home early though.....yanbu about that. Someone else could deal with that. When someone is off sick they're sick and should be left alone.

Hope you feel better soon btw

SG

Thanks SG, I do feel better. Actually, it was directed at me, because of the nature of our job. I am however, happy to be unreasonable today, since I feel a bit pants!

Let's pretend you didn't see it... at least until after you got back to work... give it a day or so.

Then if you are still miffed about them directing this silly critism directly towards you, (and I would be..) then I think you are wholy justified to say, I saw your post on FB etc, and while I'm sorry if you had to work more to cover my illness, it WAS unavoidable, and I'D have to do it for YOU if the shoe were on the other foot.

Don't feel guilty for being ill, FGS. If you have been throwing up from both ends, and are not supposed to be in for 24 hours afterwards, that's it. Can't be helped.

If they HAVE tried to make you feel bad for being ill, that's deplorable, not like you are off every monday morning with a blinding hangover, or one sniff of a cold and you are off. 2yrs.... not bad if you are working in a school FGS.

Rest up and be well, don't stress about it, if they are that petty, they're just idiotic.

Aw, thankyou Groundhogs, that's made be feel better!

We'll see how next week pans out and I may have a friendly joke with them about it!

I'd heave a big sigh of the "can't they do anything without me for fecks sake" variety.

It is now obvious to them just how much you do. This is not a bad thing!

FWIW I always block calls from work on my day off. Have special ring tone and everything

I just don't understand why people are FB friends with co-workers.

Just wrong.

This is the reason why i will never add work colleagues as friends on FB. I don't see any problem with being on FB and have lots of friends but these are my real friends outside of work. Near enough all my work colleagues are friends with each other on FB and keep asking me why don't i join FB (they don't know that i'm on FB). Not adding work colleagues on FB is a rule i live by and i would advise anybody else to do the same.