Just called out of my shift tomorrow. Gave them as much notice as I can even tried to cover it myself first. My manager just absolutely pissed me right off.
I was in yesterday and had a bit of a dodgy throat, she noticed and asked what was up. I said I think I smoked too much on my days off (Sunday/monday) when me and my partner had a drink. She laughed and was all ‘okay at least your honest about it’ I gradually felt worse and worse as the day went on.
Skip to today (also day off) I wake up hurting all over, kept waking through the night because of it but it was so much worse in the morning I actually cried a little.
I try texting to find cover, just get no’s in response. So I called the store and got my manager explained I’m not going to be in. She says ‘well it doesn’t look good when you said it was smoking and drinking.’ I reply ‘yeah I honestly thought that was it but obviously it’s not’ and I get ‘well we don’t know that do we’
Wtf like yes I do know that drinking and smoking two days ago isn’t going to affect me like this is it.
She’s the first manager I really got along with but this has really soured my opinion of her. Im so fucking done with retail. I hate it.