A rhetorical question really.
I was scheduled tonight to work 5pm-11pm. As I walked in the door, I was handed the phone. My 15 year old daughter was on the other end. She had locked herself out of the house. I spent the next 17 minutes on the phone trying to get someone with a spare key ( my son and/or daughter in law) to let her back in. Unable to reach anyone, I informed my boss I needed to return home and then back to work. He knew about my situation. It would have taken me about an hour to go home and back.
He proceeds to scream at me. Why couldn't this have been taken care of BEFORE I got to work, wasn't she old enough to wait for me to return from work, why didn't I have a spare key ?
#1 This happened as I walked in the door and couldn't be fixed before I got there.
#2 I'm supposed to leave her outside for up to 6 hours until I return from work? DHR/CPS would have had a field day with that one no matter her age.
#3 Yes I have a spare key. I have several. One was LOCKED INSIDE MY HOUSE!
He then tells me to go home and to not freaking come back tonight. That he will do just fine without me.
I am dumbfounded. This man has kids my daughter's age and he is usually very calm.
I left and said I'd be back tomorrow.
IN my defense, I have never missed one day of work due to my child. I have never been late due to her involvement. I rarely call in, am late, etc. Just yesterday, I was very, very ill and still worked a double shift. At first I was told I could go home at end of first shift but when push came to shove, they needed me, couldn't do without me, blah , blah, blah.
And management wonders why that cannot keep good employees?
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travelwoman
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Aug 19 @ 12:16AM
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I don't know what kind of job you're in. But it doesn't really matter, does it now. Because either way this is not how a supervisor should treat his employee. Screeming, foul language... you have enough for filing an official complaint.
This type of thing happened once to me. It was not about my child or an absence, but the supervisor accused me of lying. She screemed so loud that she could be heard 5 rows of cubicles down... and we were behind closed doors. Now... I NEVER lie. Not at home, not at work, no matter what.
I went to HR and said I'd quit right there and then, and I meant it, too. Even though I had no clue how I would manage, being a single mom, without family around, sole provider for my son and me....
All of a sudden, everything was different. The HR people told me that they had had other people complaining, they basically begged me not to leave, they gave me the forms for filing an official complaint.
In the end I stayed, and.... I was never screemed at again....
Maybe you could talk with "higher than he"?
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lazareth
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Aug 19 @ 12:18AM
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in the end, you are just a number, thats all.
Years ago, employers took care of their good employees. Not anymore. There are too many out there looking for YOUR job and employers know it
very sad really
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chevymn
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Aug 19 @ 12:32AM
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I must confess I have not had any problems from my bosses when it comes to kids. I have been there for almost nine years anything else yeah!, but kids no!
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sphynxsmile
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Aug 19 @ 1:49AM
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same experience as travel had. Really nasty piece of work. I finally went to HR and they contacted him. My dear, he was like a kitten after that. When once later he re-started, I just reminded him it was no way to speak to me and he said "you're not going to complain to HR are you? I didn't mean it. Sorry" His problem, not mine  don't take that shit from no one. Not worth it for your health.
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LilMissGiggles
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Aug 19 @ 5:44AM
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[QUOTE] I am dumbfounded. This man has kids my daughter's age and he is usually very calm.
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brunettee62
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Aug 19 @ 8:57AM
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Your boss should have understood it's not like one does this intentionally.
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butterfly943
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Aug 19 @ 9:02PM
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How sad to be treated this way...it happened to my youngest daughter just the other day,her son has asthma and was having an attack at the babysitters she told her boss she needed to get him to the doctor and her boss told her not to bother to come back my daughter did go back into work (single mother) because she needed her job but when she did her boss at the time was giving out paychecks and when she came to Jenn she tossed hers on the floor..my daughter was so embarrassed she picked it up and left before anyone seen her cry..needless to say she filed a complaint not sure if anything will come of it but no one should be treated that way.. 
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missliss78
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Aug 19 @ 10:34PM
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 I'm with the advice of making a visit to HR....the sooner, the better.
I hope things go better tomorrow! 
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nosary
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Sep 13 @ 11:37AM
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isnt that the way in life, for most humans now- everything good and right one does is a right they earnt and everything wrong worth the punishment! ofc it goes without saying this does not apply to them.
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