We had a water main break directly over our lab on the weekend. Almost everything was destroyed, except for two stations. Guess who gets to come in and triage all this **** with puddles of brown water and the smell of **** still literally everywhere? Myself and the guy in first place on productivity. (I'm in second place.) They want to get as many cases out as possible. Guess who gets a surprise three day weekend? Everyone else.

This **** gets better and better. Our Anatomic Pathology manager worked literally 24 hours straight scrounging up equipment and getting loaners so at least the day shift would have stuff to work with. All was for naught, however, as almost the entire day shift called in "sick", including the day shift manager. Only one of the day shift employees actually showed up, and she got called away to make slides for an in-progress surgery. That left noone in the lab, which is a big problem as our 24/7 hospital lab can't go on radio silence. With entire day shift out "sick" and the AP manager being passed out from her previous effort, one of the regional executives (a >$250,000 a year position) had to come in and take over. Yes, this person had to abandon their actual job and come stand in the rusty, shitty, wet lab and answer phone calls from angry doctors all day wondering where their slides are.

With entire day shift out "sick" and the AP manager being passed out from her previous effort, one of the regional executives (a >$250,000 a year position) had to come in and take over. Yes, this person had to abandon their actual job and come stand in the rusty, shitty, wet lab and answer phone calls from angry doctors all day wondering where their slides are.

All was for naught, however, as almost the entire day shift called in "sick", including the day shift manager.

Yeah, this should not have been allowed.
"You're sick? Ok, I understand if you are. But we're having a crisis here and really need people to come in. Ok, well if you're sick, you're sick. I'm going to need a doctor's note when you return. No exceptions."

The problem with this is that if you haven't been requiring doctor's notes all along, you can't suddenly start doing it just because you "really need people to come in".

There's usually a clause in the handbook that allows the employer to request a doctors note in the event of an absence. For situations just like this one.

We have no such thing as "sick leave". We have paid time off (PTO). We take it whenever we want, including when we are sick.

I told my boss once that I was having vision problems. I couldn't see myself coming to work the next day.

He laughed.

A previous boss used to be adamant about saying things like "if you don't want to be here, don't waste either of our time"

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