My manager let me know that it is my responsibility to find a replacement if I call out sick, so I’m quitting.
I just don’t roll with that. No “get better soon” or “I’m sorry to hear that”. It was just pure inconvenience and bitterness.
It is my first week working here and I do not know every one of my co-workers or have their phone numbers. At jobs where I feel respected and have the resources, I would absolutely try to find some cover before reaching out to my boss.
But that will never happen here because I am quitting and finding somewhere else that at least has upper management/HR (this is a small family run business that often uses the “we are a family so we put the team first!” excuse iykyk).
Anyways, this is just kind of a rant but I am sick and tired of managers who try to get me to do their job when I am sick and cannot work.
Nobody should ever have to put their job at a higher priority than their health. I can’t enable a toxic working culture like that.
Netizens’ comments
- It is never your responsibility to find someone to cover you when you need to call in sick or for an emergency. Never take a job that requires that.
- What’s your boss’s job again? Oh that’s right managing. I swear scheduling is a business management kinda thing.
- Tell him: {Company} does not pay me enough to be a Manager, that is your job and it includes finding replacements or doing it yourself.
- Don’t quit, just stop going, see how he likes that
- I’ve had managers who tried this. Every time I tell them I don’t have anybody’s number and unless they offer it to me themselves I don’t want it and don’t give my number out either bc I will not answer to numbers I don’t know.
- lol, no, it isn’t your responsibility. they’re the ones with the schedule, the phone number lists, and the ability to approve work. i had a boss pull that on me, i ended up being guilt tripped into working sick, and was miserable. never doing that again.