It's like the title.
I am a doctor working in ICU and at the start of September I was tending one of my dearest coworker's mother who was on anticoagulant (because of atrium fibrillation) and fell accidentally resulting in subdural hematoma and coma.
There was no hope but we wanted to try our best to make her gaining some consciousness. She was stable and could react to people around her and even lift her arms. But the COVID and flu season hit hard in October and November here in China. And she didn't make it through. Catching COVID in the wards was the last blow and we hadn't have any efficient meds to help her.
So she died while my coworker was having flu-A. It was a gloomy Wednesday. She already took a day off that day to recover from flu but had to deal with all these in the evening.
Normally bereavement leave is 3 days in China starting from close families' death. But my boss didn't let her have it in the reason of “you were already off work at Wednesday, if I gave you three day leave, you will be going to off work until Saturday. What about the Sunday? Huh? You're gonna have it off too right? In that case, I'm gonna cut your pay by the end of the month because you're off work too too much. Or you can choose to not have the bereavement leave and keep your pay”
I was wondering how the head of a hospital department can be so cruel and cold hearted towards a death of her (yes a woman) employee's mother.