The Glade 4.0

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.

They can count on you two to do the work. So you get assigned to do the work.

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Accomplishing the impossible means that it gets added to your weekly duties.

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.

Having a high level manager come into your work space to witness the complete and utter mess you have to deal with while you play heroics is... great. The mess is more likely to be corrected, and you have been noticed.

Hard work always pays off, often in the form of more hard work, but hey job security if you want it.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

This is called "being a good leader".

I have no respect for managers/executives/leaders whose only "skill" is "managing". If you can't do, don't try to manage doing. That means getting into the **** when it hits the fan. Kudos to them.

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."

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Holy shitsnacks!

Don't think the manager didn't notice who was there and who wasn't.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

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".

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

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.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Sick leave is a privilege. Annual leave is a privilege. Any absence from work in a right-to-work state, unless it's an FMLA qualifying event, can be grounds for termination.

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If you have enough leverage, usually from being a scare resource, you can skip work sometimes. It's not noble or anything, but you can get away with it. I sometimes skip work, haven't been fired from a job since I was 16 (27 now).

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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That's generally how I am with my staff (we don't have sick leave either), but they are smart enough not to abuse it. I have yet to deny leave, and in return I have yet to hear any complaining when on the rare occasion **** hits the fan and they need to work over the weekend or late at night.

I interviewed for a company recently that has both PTO and sick days as separate things. Kinda interesting.