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Supervisor Hostile towards me Missing shifts due to having Covid

Gonna preface this with that this isn't as bad as some of the stories on here, but i felt like venting somewhere. I caught covid almost 2 weeks ago, even though I'm triple vaxxed it unfortunately hit me pretty hard. I am very active and fit, however I had very bad bronchitis as a teenager and as a result my lungs tend to be susceptible to illness, every few 3-5 years it feels like something gets me super sick when my lungs get infected. My work situation is I am a Lifeguard/Swin Instructor/Pool Manager. Where I live we are heavily understaffed and run on skeleton staff 90% of the time and as a result I am doing multiple roles simultaneously, which I don't mind (Teaching, Guarding, Managing, cleaning, doing pool chemistry checks. etc.) As the title stated, I ended up catching covid which hit me really hard. I kept updating…


Gonna preface this with that this isn't as bad as some of the stories on here, but i felt like venting somewhere. I caught covid almost 2 weeks ago, even though I'm triple vaxxed it unfortunately hit me pretty hard. I am very active and fit, however I had very bad bronchitis as a teenager and as a result my lungs tend to be susceptible to illness, every few 3-5 years it feels like something gets me super sick when my lungs get infected.

My work situation is I am a Lifeguard/Swin Instructor/Pool Manager. Where I live we are heavily understaffed and run on skeleton staff 90% of the time and as a result I am doing multiple roles simultaneously, which I don't mind (Teaching, Guarding, Managing, cleaning, doing pool chemistry checks. etc.) As the title stated, I ended up catching covid which hit me really hard. I kept updating my supervisor of my status and assisted in trying to help her find coverage for my shifts. Unfortunately some of the shifts are very unappealing for the multitask aspects I mentioned above and people don't want to cover them, as a result she has had to close the pool and cancel swim lessons at least for 1 day, maybe more.

Recently she has been calling me 10am in the morning asking me to predict 3-4 days in advance how I'll be feeling and pressuring me to take over responsibility for finding coverage for shifts. The last 2 phone calls have been really unpleasant and made me feel guilty, she both times people are usually better in less than 10 days and I get the feeling she thinks I'm faking it? Thankfully it does seem like I'm getting better and am planning to return to work on sunday, but otherwise I was planning to get a doctors note to try and get her to stop harassing me, as it's stressful enough not being able to socialize or go to the gym or work, I don't like being woken up on my days off in such a manner. (Yeah I probably should be awake by 10, but I have been exhausted and sleeping constantly.)

It's too bad because while other staff I know had said she's hard to work with, up until my getting sick I thought she was really nice and everyone was wrong about her. At this point I have emailed her and asked that she stop calling me on my days off and to please just email or text me instead, so their is a record of what she's saying. Anyways that's the end of my rant.

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