I've come down with a horrible stomach bug this week and have called in sick for the last three days (today being the third). I'm starting to feel a bit better, but not 100% ready to go back to work.
In my work we use an app that we're required to use each time to log things like lateness, sickness, etc, instead of actually phoning in person.
So, that's what I did. I also make sure that the app logs my sickness correctly before logging out just in case.
Straight away on Wednesday morning I had a text from my manager asking if I was okay. Today, my phone started ringing and when I looked it was my manager calling me on WhatsApp from their personal number.
We have a team WhatsApp group chat thing, so that's why we all have each other's numbers, but honestly, this is stressing me out and makes me feel very uneasy.
Having read similar threads on MN, I'm now wondering if this is the norm in the UK, or if I'm just being overly sensitive and unreasonable.
Most of my working life has been spent in another EU country and it's a massive no-go to contact staff who have followed the sickness policy of phoning in each day, so I don't know if my expectations are just unrealistic and this is acceptable here.
Personally, it feels really intrusive and quite unprofessional - especially as I have followed procedure and haven't logged a long term sickness that would require a doctors note.
Is this the done and acceptable thing, or would anyone else find this behaviour stressful?