Maybe I’m in the wrong here, but I think the whole situation is ridiculous.
For context: I started a new job 3 months ago, where the first 2 months were training. I have actually been in office in production for about 5 weeks now, so just getting started.
The second week in production, I get a stomach bug or food poisoning. Not sure exactly what it was, but it was coming out of both ends. I even went to the office this day, but around noon my coworkers were like “you look really flush, are you okay?” I said honestly no and they told me I should go home. Which I did around 1, so I took a half sick day.
Fast forward 3 weeks, it’s Saturday morning and I wake up with a nasty cold. I rest all weekend, but only get slightly better. I then go into the office on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday fighting this cold, not getting any better. Finally Thursday morning, still feeling like shit, I send an e-mail saying I’m still fighting this cold and need a day to rest.
My manager calls me the next morning, this morning, saying “so you took a sick day yesterday?” He must have not seen it yesterday because he was out. Anyways he started scolding me for taking two sick days in two weeks, and that it doesn’t bode well for my perception in the office. And I’m like hold up it was just a sick day and a half not two weeks apart but 25 days apart.
I get it, it doesn’t look good taking two sick days in the first month, but I don’t choose when I get sick.