Recently I’ve been having medical problems that required me to go to the ER twice. I’ve just moved cross country and finally received care from a specialist. My doctor wants to perform a biopsy, so I’ll need to take Tuesday and Wednesday off (found this out today). I start at my job that I just transferred to on Monday.
I called my manager and she absolutely laid into me. Before I really got to speak, she said “one thing you need to know about me is that I’m super anal with the scheduling and I don’t let people walk all over me.” I then said okay, I have an important procedure that my doctor scheduled me for that NEEDS to be done. I reiterated this 3 times. She said that she sent the schedule to me a “long time ago” aka one week ago today, and that I shouldn’t be pulling this. I said, okay great, I just went to the doctor today – I just moved here. She made a big deal about how we have an audit coming up and that I should just put it off until it’s over. I said no, let’s try to work this out – I’ll come over tomorrow to talk. After that she said I “really need to try to be flexible and work with us.” Then hung up.
I live in North Carolina so if there’s any labor laws you know of (federal/state) that would be helpful for tomorrow – send them my way!