speaking up could give me an exemption to a new policy, but i feel a slight devil on my shoulder inclination to just let it unfold and see what happens.
note: my job is short staffed as is, and sees high turnover.
i work morning shifts half the week, soon to be all week when one of my coworkers quits.
after missing 2wks of shifts almost back to back due to unpredictable health issues, a “new policy” email was sent out, saying that anything less than a week's notice for calling out would earn “penalty points”. the number of points corresponds to the days ahead of calling out & whether we find our own replacement. enough points will lead to termination.
the timing of the email felt extremely targeted at my absences- had the policy been in place 3 weeks prior, I'd have been fired according to it. This because 1) I cannot predict when I'll wake up having had an epileptic event (or vertigo, which comes on suddenly for me), and 2) being morning shift, it's always at most an hour notice I can give & zero chance of finding someone to cover on such short notice at 7:30am on their day off.
what pisses me off the most about this is the guy who sent out the email's entire job is to oversee my job, and on these short notice events, it's his responsibility to fill in- which means doing his work downstairs instead of upstairs. but, being salaried, he's basically never there to begin with, so the whole thing feels like him being upset at having to go to work and do his job & therefore punishing us for needing him to.
my options are to see HR (as has been recommended to me by three higher ups), or to stop explaining my absences in the unnecessary detail I've been giving him thus far about my medical conditions and just sort of dare him to follow through.
even if it wasn't my condition, sometimes people just wake up sick? how can we be penalized for not calling out a week ahead of a fever?
I had half a mind to quit when I saw the email, because unexpected call outs are almost guaranteed with my condition.
wwyd?