First post, just kinda been thinking about it all day, guess I'm looking for people's take on this.
Earlier this year we got a new general manager at the store I work at. Guy is mid-30s, super chill, easily the nicest guy I've had in the nine years I've spent working there.
I have a history of calling out a lot due to medical problems, often enough that I had to sign some form (don't remember the official title of the form).
I won't lie, I did have a period a few months back where I was just calling out because I was dreading going to work (more than usual I guess, lol), but I've bounced back.
Today though…I really wasn't feeling it.
So I called out.
Who answers the phone but the general manager.
“Generic Company at United States!” he says way too cheerfully for 5:30 in the morning.
I let him know I'm calling out. All of a sudden his mood shifts.
“Again? Sludgebaby, you know you have the worst attendance in the entire store, right?”
Me, shocked: “…”
“Like, do you even want to work here? I guess we'll start making calls because now we have no one in your department.”
Anyway that's pretty much how it went down, I kinda spaced out because…I just wasn't anticipating that kind of hostile reaction. I've run through the options in my mind, there are only two.
- Admit I wasn't actually sick and come in? Why the fuck would I do that?
- Stay home and pretend to be sick. Like am I wrong?
I feel like asking if I even want to work there (lol I don't) is something of a veiled threat, if it weren't for the fact they can't actually afford to lose anyone in my department seeing as it's both understaffed and hasn't managed to get any new hires in over a year.
I feel like this post has sort of lost the point, but like…I don't really care if I don't make 40 hours a week. Why should I hustle and grind at the company just so they can throw me another quarter next year? Or better yet, raise me to salary so I can do twice as much work for way less pay?
Hell nah dude. I'm just gonna keep studying my side-gig.