Boss at work givin me jip

I think he's being quite fair. He's made an assumption that you might have over done it at the weekend but he hasn't taken any action only asked you to consider whether you're absence relates to your lifestyle.

I work for a large blue chip company. The rules are 5 occasion off in 12 months and you're in disciplinary. You've had 3 occasions in 4 months which needs to improve. They may well be legitimate incidents but it's a business and they need to ensure they have the correct levels of staffing. The attendance policy is there to ensure fairness in dealing with these matters. You’re fitness to attend work is a contractual requirement.

As a side note, if you’d had 20 days off for one illness that would be counted as 1 occasion of absence but then you’d fall foul of overall attendance which is usually around 97% of planned days.

Don’t sweat it. Have a quiet chat with him when you get back, state in a calm friendly manner that you were genuinely ill and hadn’t been out on the lash the night before. Acknowledge that you need to keep an eye on your attendance and get on with working.

He’s got a job to do and he’s expected to control absence levels in the business.

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In my line of work it is illegal for me to go to work if I'm not feeling up to it. The definition of "not feeling up to it" is also left in my hands :D
 
my job is to approach customers and initiate conversation, I'm in sales. I tried to approach a couple and normally I'm pretty mint at it, today I opened a conversation and straight away started to feel dizzy and forgot what I was sayin, thought I was gonna throw up on them.

I think thats pretty legit reason for not bein there, he knows how far away I live from work, surely the fact I turned up is reason enough to put faith in me to believe I'm really ill.

I think he is givin me jip and not just doin his job because of the way he talks "I'm employin you" "me havin you here" if it was just his duty and he was really understandin then there'd be "have tos" and such plastered all over his sentences.

I'm good at my job, I know I am, I dont need ego or sales figures to prove me right about it, he knows it as well. If he fires me he wont find someone to replace me (not because I'm so good just because I started 4 months ago under the pretence that there'll be at least another 2 people startin doin the same as me and there hasnt been any) so its gonna be much more hassle for him than me to get rid of me. Again another reason why I dont think his attitude is justified, if it was about the sales and the business then he'd be usin "need you here" and that sort of thing rather than goin at me like its all my fault.

Someone said its just a junior manager abusin his power and I reckon they're right, off his head.
 
I would tend to agree that three days off in four months of part time work is quite a lot. When I was on my placement year last year, working full time, I think I only took one day off sick in the entire year.

I guess the only thing you can do is to try your hardest not to get sick again in future :p
 
anksta said:
Someone said its just a junior manager abusing his power and I reckon they're right, off his head.
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it sounds to me more like a little student that doesn't like authority. he gave a friendly warning so what? what do you really hope to get from this thread? a lawyer appear and say he can't talk to you like that sue him? most people have said it's no big deal in one way or another and they are all correct, this is absolutely tiny, i assume it's his job to say something to you, he let you go home which was decent enough of him.
 
Three days is quite a bit though espically in 4 months, I haven't had that many in 3 years.

Infact I get a thank you card for 100% attendance - how special do I feel. :\
 
dont let it bother u, just ignore it, the more u talk back the worse it will be most probably. Just look for a new job if hes annoying u:p
 
It looks like your 'G' key is already knackered anyway, so take your keyboard in with you and smack him around the head with it!
 
anksta said:
Someone said its just a junior manager abusin his power and I reckon they're right, off his head.
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I fail to see what power you think he has abused

He had a word with you off the record telling you to pull your socks up, I think you're being a bit melodramatic
 
The quiet word is one thing - I would expect that from my employer. It's the whole tone of the conversation and the insinuations that annoy me.
 
standard employer-employee relationship dynamic tbh...

He doesnt have the right to make those personal comments though. Any discussion like this drag your union rep in as well.

Safeguard your own interests - no one else will.
 
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