Hello antiworkers of the cyberspace!
I was hesitant to post about this, because the person apologized and the company's actually taking action to resolve the issue, but the person at fault doesn't seem to understand the implications, even though I've stated them, and I think it's an interesting situation overall.
Anyway, hopefully those were enough words to deter any manager from following to read. On Tuesday, my new manager was cleaning the cabinet where we usually leave our belongings during work, and they grabbed my glasses, asked whose they were, which I didn't hear cause I was actually doing my job, and working through a rush. Without a response, they threw them into the trash, which was picked up soon after lmao.
I didn't realize what had happened until later when I went looking for them. They seemed to have “forgotten” that they threw them in the trash, and went looking all around and even tried to find the garbage collector. Anyway, she let me out early so I wouldn't have to drive at night, on top of driving without my glasses, and said I could stay home the day after, or the following days until we figured it out.
They didn't mention anything to their supervisor that night cause we went home at the same time. Nor Wednesday, cause they didn't work today day. Then yesterday they hit me up with “how soon could you get your glasses so you can return to work?” Lmao.
Fortunately, I was wiser than to trust a manager lol, so I had already joint-emailed hr and my union rep directly, and now they're getting me a brand new pair, an Uber to take me to and from work until I get them, and they're seeing about paying me for the days I couldn't go to work because of the whole ordeal.