I became sick at the start of the first week back to work and asked for sick leave for the week. I work as a designer at a prestigious consulting firm, and am one of 2 designers on a project.
For context, I started off asking for Monday and Tuesday off, worked the Wednesday as I’d gotten multiple emails asking to finish off some urgent work, then took Thursday and Friday off as well since I wasn’t feeling much better.
On Friday, my manager texted my phone at 12pm asking if I can work the afternoon to get some stuff done as the other designer is taking longer than expected to finish a task and is going on leave the following week.
Is this considered out of line or toxic work behavior?