Recently I started a new job as a server. (please don't tell me to get a “real job”. I go to school full time and am a single mother, I need the flexibility)
I make $2.25 an hour plus tips. For the most part I love the job other than the managers not training us how to actually do things, or telling us to go ask one of our coworkers when we all started at the same time. But the other night I had a chronic illness flare up so I called off of work the next day, and was told I need to contact our symptom checker hotline. The symptom checker said I have to stay out 24 hours, and the next day they changed it to 48 hours. I tried to explain that I'm not contagious but they weren't budging. So I tried to call my employer again who this time wouldn't answer the phone. So I sent a message to both my managers to explain the situation, and that I feel okay to come in, and asking what they want me to do since the hotline said I can't go in. Of course I recieve no response. I know for a fact they read my message though.
Is this normal for employers to just not communicate with you?