I (24m) work for as a security guard at a mental hospital
So it’s a regular day at work and around 10am and I get a call from my girlfriend and she sounded distressed she tells me that she fell at work (luckily didn’t hit her stomach).
I tell my boss Kevin (not his real name btw) that I need to leave to go to the hospital to get her checked in the labour and delivery unit. He gives me the go-ahead and I leave and pick up my girlfriend from work and go to the hospital.
It takes two hours everything said and she’s alright to leave. I drop her off and head back to work, only to be told by my best friend that Kevin had said that I shouldn’t have leftover something so trivial and for some reason said that
“babies die all time from stuff like that”.
Why he would say that I have no effing clue but it pissed me off enough that I didn’t speak to him for the rest of the day.
The next day I hear him going on about me in the office how I’m always calling in sick and making up excuses to get out of work (I have IBS and have called in twice because of it).
I opened the door to the office and lost my temper at him and told him that he should keep people’s lives out of the limelight in the office and not talk about my kid dying so lightly. What I didn’t realize was not only were there 3 other guards besides him and me there was a nursing supervisor. I got two write-ups for the outburst now I’m on a final warning.
I know I should have taken this up with HR but I lost my head and reacted poorly. This was a week ago I’m still mad and equally scared that I’m going to lose my job at this detail over the way I handled it.