I’m livid for how my coworker got treated. My coworker was out all of last week. She called out sick because her kids got really sick. I knew she didn’t have a lot of sick time and she only had 2 days of it. The other days were covered from vacation time which is already messed up. She wanted to do leave without pay but she was forced to take vacation time.
Yesterday our head of the office (law office environment) overheard her talking to another coworker about her getting married last week. I was aware of it. The marriage ceremony took place last week. Well the head of the office told our supervisor who manages the support staff not the attorneys. They both had a talk with her and told her she “misused” her sick time.
Get this: she got married during the hours of what would’ve been AFTER work hours. It is her damn business what she does in her personal life. So what she called out sick? She could’ve felt like trash earlier in the day then better by the time of the ceremony.
She’s in talks with our union rep because this is messed up. This is almost the same as I better not be grocery shopping if I call out sick in case someone sees me. What if I need food and have nobody that can do the shopping? Am I going to be held liable for misuse of sick time. I work for the county govt btw.