…on a technicality. I called out yesterday and left a voicemail saying I could not make it in. I failed to use the word “sick” in the voicemail because I had a migraine and did not think about it. So because I did not say “sick” in my voicemail, I cannot use sick time.
I called out at 4PM. My boss contacted me via email at 11:59PM to tell me this would be an “occurrence” for an unplanned absence. Thing is, she sent it to my work email account. Which I can only access while I am physically working… when I called out because I could not work. She could have called me back or sent an email to my personal email to clarify. Instead, she went out of her way to make sure I could not clarify I was sick to screw me out of 8 hours of pay.
I’m working with the union to figure this nonsense out but I’m so angry that she absolutely did this on purpose. She has no issues contacting me on my personal cell for work related matters so long as it does not concern me getting paid.
I know she did this on purpose. She has been treating me differently ever since I complained about her condescending tone when I asked her questions during training.
So it’s “technically” my fault for not saying the one word. This place finds every excuse to get out of paying you. No one ever explained that you had to make sure to do that on your call outs. I thought I was just doing best practice to just call out of work in the first place instead of no call no showing. If I have 60 hours of sick time, I would sure the fuck like to use it when I call out of work.