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amberrose3dg 09:04 AM 02-01-2018
I want some feedback as my assistant thinks I'm being unfair and not understanding with her recent call offs. There have been a lot and I feel that in this job being reliable is number one. You do not call off each time you feel a little off.
She was hired in the middle of October and was excellent with showing up on time and doing a good job until January.
I was closed January 1st and second. She only had to work 3 days the first week of January.
Second week she called off Wednesday the 10th and the 11th. No real illness diagnosed and did come with a drs note.
The following week she called off Wednesday for snow on the 17th. ( it wasn't bad i was still open) Friday the 19th she claimed to have a stomach bug.
I ended up with pneumonia and was hospitalized the following week and was closed for 3 days. I reopened Thursday and Friday she worked and only had two children in care those days as parents wanted to give me a break.
Monday she comes in to work and works a normal full day. Tuesday calls off at 710am when i had to be at my sons school that day and she was scheduled to be here at 745. Her stomach bothered her. Then says she also needs Wednesday to rest and her dr thinks she isnt getting enough time to rest. Promised to be here today and texts me 10 minutes before her shift shes being tested for the flu. No surprise that and strep throat come back negative.
So in all this time off nothing really wrong. No flu, strep, etc...
Ladies please tell me being extremely upset and wanting to let her go is the right response. I am an understanding person but this is now 6 sick days and 1 snow since January 10th . Basically in 3 weeks she has missed 7 days when there was 17 work days. This is even counting the day off for martin luther king and my sick days which she did not work so if you are technical she has only worked 13 and called off 7.
She is going into a rant how she is really sick and not sure what is going on and at her last job they only give you 1 point if you missed more than 3 of 4 days in a row.
I do not know any job that would of let me call off this much in 3 weeks and still have a job. The drs notes are a moot point because she didnt have an illness just her crazy self going and getting one.( I am starting to think it is a mental issue)
I told her she could come back on Monday but if she calls off at all for anything other than a seriously illness I will terminate immediately. I do not even want to give her that but I know she will fail and I will fire her.
She was hired in the middle of October and was excellent with showing up on time and doing a good job until January.
I was closed January 1st and second. She only had to work 3 days the first week of January.
Second week she called off Wednesday the 10th and the 11th. No real illness diagnosed and did come with a drs note.
The following week she called off Wednesday for snow on the 17th. ( it wasn't bad i was still open) Friday the 19th she claimed to have a stomach bug.
I ended up with pneumonia and was hospitalized the following week and was closed for 3 days. I reopened Thursday and Friday she worked and only had two children in care those days as parents wanted to give me a break.
Monday she comes in to work and works a normal full day. Tuesday calls off at 710am when i had to be at my sons school that day and she was scheduled to be here at 745. Her stomach bothered her. Then says she also needs Wednesday to rest and her dr thinks she isnt getting enough time to rest. Promised to be here today and texts me 10 minutes before her shift shes being tested for the flu. No surprise that and strep throat come back negative.
So in all this time off nothing really wrong. No flu, strep, etc...
Ladies please tell me being extremely upset and wanting to let her go is the right response. I am an understanding person but this is now 6 sick days and 1 snow since January 10th . Basically in 3 weeks she has missed 7 days when there was 17 work days. This is even counting the day off for martin luther king and my sick days which she did not work so if you are technical she has only worked 13 and called off 7.
She is going into a rant how she is really sick and not sure what is going on and at her last job they only give you 1 point if you missed more than 3 of 4 days in a row.
I do not know any job that would of let me call off this much in 3 weeks and still have a job. The drs notes are a moot point because she didnt have an illness just her crazy self going and getting one.( I am starting to think it is a mental issue)
I told her she could come back on Monday but if she calls off at all for anything other than a seriously illness I will terminate immediately. I do not even want to give her that but I know she will fail and I will fire her.