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    bloodgo1    May 14, 2010   Royal Oak

    I am so mad right now it is ridiculous. I have had to miss work the last 4 days, which is a lot I know, but it is because I have been in and out of the doctors & ER - in ridiculous amounts of pain/getting sick/passing out. Early this morning I had to go in to the ER and had to stay all day and was on morphine and everything. I have doctors statements stating that I have a disease that results in episodes of severe pain and that I would need to miss work in the event of having a flare up. This is something that my boss knows about - I've told him although there seems to be a communication barrier because I don't know if he is just too stupid to understand me or if he really doesn't know what I'm saying.

    Well after the ER today I made sure to call my boss and offered to come in over the weekend and work to make up time and catch up before Monday. I even thanked him for being understanding about it and he acted totally fine. Well one of my coworkers just e-mailed me to give me a heads up that my boss apparently gave them a note (there are only 4 of us in our office) saying that if any of us missed more than 4 days of work then we would be fired and wants us to SIGN it. Why in the hell would I give him permission to fire me? Things happen to people, I'm surely not going to just say "ok yeah its fine if you fire me even though I 100% COULD NOT have worked the last few days". It is especially stupid because yes I know he is the boss, but a couple of weeks ago his little girl was really sick and he missed 4 days straight to take care of her while she was in and out of doctors so it isn't as if he isn't aware that things happen to people where they need days off.

    What do I do? I'm going in tomorrow morning and he is supposedly going to be there. I don't even know what to say to him. I was going to attempt to work and go to school at the same time, but honestly I don't know if in the fall I should just say screw it and go to school full time and take a refund check instead of working for this d-bag.

     
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    MrsSl82be    October 24, 2009  

    I would tell him the only way you will sign it is for undocumented days off, as in you don't have a doc note or some other doc saying you need the day off.  If he won't budge, then tell him you will have to find employment elsewhere. Any way you can do your job remotely from home or something so that you don't have to go in on the days you are in pain?

     
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    MissAsB    June 6, 2009   Married in CO, Living in AL

    I would talk to him about it.  If he really doesn't budge, you might want to consider threatening to sue him for wrongful termination.  You are using your built up leave right?

     
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    bloodgo1    May 14, 2010   Royal Oak

    @MrsSl82be: Yeah I understand for undocumented days off so that would be one thing, but the fact that he is doing something like this which is clearly a result of my absence that he knows I've been in the doctors/hospital for is a total other situation, ya know? It would be one thing if I was just flakey about it, but I've kept him informed and he 100% knows what was going on. I can't do the work from home though, it all is with patient files and stuff so you can't take anything out of the office.

     

    @MissAsB: Yeah I really don't think that he can honestly fire me because of this when I have documentation. I talked to my husband about it and I think when he brings it up to me I need to talk to him about it and if he still pushes me to sign it then I'm going to tell him I'm putting in my 2 weeks. It'll be more difficult money-wise because I didn't want to take out anymore student loans but honestly if I just go to school and finish my courses in the fall instead of stretching it out I can get my degree and most likely start looking for a better job come January. Even my coworker was like, "I think it is total bs but it is up to you to sign it. Clearly he doesn't care about his employees and what is occurring in their personal lives."

     

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