I almost got a write up for attendance (3 of these and you're fired) because being a no call/no show is automatically a write up. Generally each write up is for 4 absences.
I called off yesterday and today because our house is flooded and we have to deal with it, I used sick days but I only have one attendance write up so I could have just used infractions and there would be no discipline.
Yesterday morning I get a call from work asking me to go in on my off day. I decline and then the clerk says “Hey did you call in today? I have you as a no call/no show but you never do that” I cleared it up with him, but if he hadn't called me I'd have had no idea. I called off on time, per procedure, and would've been written up because someone just forgot to do their job.
I was also very lucky it happened to be the clerk that it was who called. He's the only one completely competent at the job and there's ~450 people at my job to keep track of so anyone else wouldn't have thought to ask me. Any other clerk wouldn't have even noticed I was on the no show list.
And then it would've been on me to prove to the office that I actually had called off correctly if they had written me up. Takes weeks of back and forth and they still usually say “well, you're right but you still get that write up because fuck you”