nimh wrote:Bella Dea wrote:Exactly. People who care about their jobs are available in an emergency, even when sick. [..] There are exceptions to this, of course, being in the hospital or somewhere you cannot be reached but the key to all is planning. An employer will be less angry that you took a day off and were unreachable than calling in and being unreachable.
Oh fer chrissakes - when an employee is sick you leave him ALONE.
Emergency? Unless you're an aerospace engineer monitoring the space shuttle, is there really going to be something THAT life-threatening that your employer shouldnt be expected to manage about it without bothering his sick employees at home? "Key to all is planning", yeah, and that goes for the employer, too. Its
his task to make sure he has enough staff on hand and has the roster scheduled smartly enough to be able to deal with replacing sick people - thats his
job. Thats why they earn so much more than us mere employees too.
Any employer who calls his people when they're sick at home is failing at his job.
It must be nice to be so dispensable and work in a non-volatile industry where nothing unexpected happens. In my line of work, no in my industry, as well as that of my husband, we need to be reachable all the time. 24/7 My employer
respects me enough to not call unless he absolutely must. I don't have a fill in. It's just me. So when I am sick, guess who does my job? No one. My "help" is in another city. And before you jump off the deep end with that one, it's not my employers fault. It again is the nature of my business. Viv was not asking for a personal day or vacation time.
She was lying. Flat out lying. I think that's bad ethics and if you want to crucify me for that, go ahead. My parents raised me to be proud of my job and to do the best I could, even if I was shoveling manure or doing some other "no brainer" job. People who take advantage of the situation and the generosity of their boss are worthless to the company who employes them. There are plenty of people out there willing to work twice as hard as viv and less likely to choose Sea World over their job.
Viv, with your "I don't care, no one missed me" attitude you will fail in the business world. There is no room for 2nd place in the professional world. Unless you want to keep this "no brainer" job for the rest of your life, you might want to evaluate the perception of your importance to the work force. If you think you're not important and act unimportant, then guess what? You become unimportant and dispensable.
