Basically the title. My girlfriend had some heart issues (she’s in her late twenties) and it’s been devastating. She had a job and admittedly we’ve not done the best job communicating with them because I’m trying to figure out her care while working full time and helping her sick mom as well. It’s been really stressful so all of this has been at the bottom of my priority list since she’s taking longer to recover from this than initially thought.
Yesterday her boss got in touch with her to ask her to complete signing up for their new HR software. I guess they’ve been trying to get in touch (we’ll get to this later) about it and I tried doing it but her account is buggy so I couldn’t complete it for her. I called the HR companies tech support, they confirmed it was a bug and submitted a ticket – communicated that to her job.
Today as I was looking through her personal emails to see if there was an update for that ticket so I could finish the setup I saw an email from someone at her job. They start out the email by saying they know she’s been out due to “personal issues” (no hey how are you) and that she needs to get this set up before they put her on unpaid leave in the HR system. She’s already not being paid because she’s out on leave haha. They included the steps and the whole thing seemed incredibly condescending as if she was somehow avoiding or incapable of doing this when she’s out with some serious health issues.
They also document how they’ve been trying to reach out to her to get this done for weeks…
Come to find out they’ve been reaching out to her on her WORK slack and WORK email. Who thinks someone out on a leave due to something serious is going to be checking their work email and slack? Why not send it to her actual personal email if it was that urgent?
I’m livid over this entire thing.