I posted here abt this job that I was new to recently…. Blah blah blah terrible management weirdly watching cameras, anyway,
I was feeling awfully sick and went into work, got through my shift and then got worse. I was sweating with chills although I didn’t have a crazy fever, so I called out of my am shift the next day because I worked in food service so that’s a safety hazard if I’m blarfing while making drinks.
Well, I called out, got better (I thought) went back into work still feeling awful but I need to pay rent so was gonna tough it out, ended up throwing up while working so my manager sent me home.
She told me I couldnt come back until i got a doctors note, but I couldn’t afford to go to urgent care just for a note and my doctors office didn’t have anything available until a couple days later. So even though after I was starting to feel better I couldn’t go back, made sure my manager was entirely aware of this situation too.
Got a call the morning of my appointment saying they’re terminating my employment. I asked why she said you’ve missed too much work, I said I called out once and you made me leave early because I was very sick? She said yeah but you missed 2 more days.
I said, YEAH, you told me I couldn’t come back without a doctors note? I told you I was going to get the note today, my hands were tied? She said sorry you’ve missed work.
For context I also called out 1 other time a few weeks ago because I nearly got into a car crash and spun out on the highway during a terrible blizzard, it was literally not safe to drive at 4am before they plowed…