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Told my boss I’m sick but that I’ll still work from home and finish all pending tasks. Later, he blamed me for not reporting an outage that happened in our system.

Background about the company: The company is a new startup and there’s no HR department with proper rules/policies. Background about me: 22M, just graduated early this year, and I’ve been working there for a couple of months and I report to this boss the most. What happened: I had a very high fever today, and I told my boss this morning that I can’t make it to the office, but, that I I’d still work from home and finish all my pending tasks for the day. I have no problem with working while sick, it’s just what he did after that got me thinking of quitting. I did all my work today and closed my PC. An hour ago, an outage occured in our system and I wasn’t able to report the issue to him since (a) I was busy doing some other tasks I was assigned to, and (b)…


Background about the company: The company is a new startup and there’s no HR department with proper rules/policies.

Background about me: 22M, just graduated early this year, and I’ve been working there for a couple of months and I report to this boss the most.

What happened:
I had a very high fever today, and I told my boss this morning that I can’t make it to the office, but, that I I’d still work from home and finish all my pending tasks for the day. I have no problem with working while sick, it’s just what he did after that got me thinking of quitting.

I did all my work today and closed my PC. An hour ago, an outage occured in our system and I wasn’t able to report the issue to him since (a) I was busy doing some other tasks I was assigned to, and (b) because I was very sick, I couldn’t focus and I wasn’t able to monitor and report the incidence.

He messaged me just now asking why I didn’t report X, and I have no idea what to say. He’s clearly pissed. He knows that I’m sick, I’ve let him know multiple times so I just can’t get over how inconsiderate he is.

What should I do? This isn’t the first time this has happened. I’m really thinking of quitting on the spot.

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