phoned in sick...went to a festival...got caught...can I get sacked ?

Lmao u mentalist

Would you employ/sack you? I bloody would!!

I dont think theyll sack you, theyll look at why u actually phoned in sick, why the hell did he ring you and why did you answer?!

Some people are just unreal. Utter stupidity!
 
wow, can't believe some of these replies, hope it makes you feel good TRYING to stick the boot in, although as you can guess if I'm willing to take days off to go to a festival I don't really care what some random people think of me.....
....I just wanted an answer to whether I could get sacked without going through the verbal/written/final warning procedures, I know where I stand now and have made arrangements incase I get sacked
 
The answer is yes, if they are ********, they can sack you.
I got a final written for doing exactly the same thing in a previous job, so I guess it depends on how well you get on with your boss...be very appologetic is my advice :)
 
I've been back to work since...my manager who I spoke to was just laughing about it, saying i shouldn't have answered the phone, but the thing that got me concerned is he said 'there will be a disciplinary hearing, just a standard disciplinary but I don't know what'll happen in there'
will just have to wait n see

thanks again to the 'good guys' in this thread !
 
By the sound of the feedback, you aint gettin sacked, so its just a question of damage limitation, you need to bring a final written warning back down to a verbal/unnofficial warning.

Get ready to pack some meat :)
 
Neoni said:
Sure.


dont believe it one bit. everyone has done it at some point.
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Do not judge everyone by your own standards. I haven't ever been off sick unless I am genuinely sick and unable to work. If I feel like I need a break I take leave for it, that is what leave is for.
 
Muban said:
Do not judge everyone by your own standards. I haven't ever been off sick unless I am genuinely sick and unable to work. If I feel like I need a break I take leave for it, that is what leave is for.
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Congrats, you seem to be working for a decent company.

Not everyone does though, so dont judge them from your lucky perspective ;)

You obviosly dont know how it feels to have a job grind you down to the point where you cant get up in the morning, you should count your blessings.
 
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mattyfez said:
Congrats, you seem to be working for a decent company.

Not everyone does though, so dont judge them from your lucky perspective ;)
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I have worked in awful jobs that I hated and for bad managers and employers that I didn't respect. Jobs that I am quite sure many people here wouldn't stick at more than a few days (and for poor pay to boot - lucky perspective? you have no idea). But I was paid to do a job and I did it to the best of my ability. I looked for other work in the meantime and whenever I left a job never had a problem getting a great reference. Even when leaving and handing my notice in I still did my job properly up until I left. I have self respect and respect for those I worked with. Will people think I am stupid for being like this (hey, maybe I am) or self righteous? maybe they will, but those are the facts and that is the work ethic I was brought up with.

If you don't like a job carry on doing it properly and find something else.

As for the OP, they could sack you depending on what the company polices are. Sounds like you have been lucky this time though.
 
mattyfez said:
Congrats, you seem to be working for a decent company.

Not everyone does though, so dont judge them from your lucky perspective ;)

You obviosly dont know how it feels to have a job grind you down to the point where you cant get up in the morning, you should count your blessings.
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I do. Worked for Asda on checkouts, TNT unloading lorrys, RM data entry, work at a slaughter house. I've still never taken a sick day from any of them.

If you want out of a crappy job work hard, apply for jobs and don't take sick days it does not look good on references.
 
Neoni said:
everyone is talking rubbish.

like not one of you have ever called in sick, when infact you could have worked and you would have been fine? or called in sick to do something social.

come off it, you act all "oh, im goody goody!"
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I've honestly never done it, maybe when I was a kid but not since I started working to pay my own bills anyway.

I book time off if I need time off, or if something comes up I explain it and say it's an emergency... I don't just say "COUGH COUGH" I'm ill.
 
mattyfez said:
Hey, if you have never had a job so bad that you didnt care about you workmates welfare or your "work ethic" then trust me, you have had it easy.
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Again stop judging people by your own standards. I was in a position where I handed my notice in where I didn't have another job to go to (at a time where jobs weren't easy to find) and had bills to pay. I hated my job so much I felt physically sick when I went in every day. I didn't enjoy the work anyway as it just isn't a job anyone would enjoy except for maybe the sado-masochists among you. We were always over worked and never made any progress seeing the workload go down. I was regularly called a ******* ****, ******** ***** in fact think of the worst expletives you can think of and I was called that by the 'customers' I had to deal with. When I say regularly I mean every 3rd person. I was emotionally blackmailed by customers on a daily basis and usually threatened with physical violence by them about once a week/fortnight. Or maybe that's just a nice easy job to you. I have had others job in which I was equally as unhappy in my work.

Though I think it wouldn't matter what jobs I have done - I could have had quite the worst job in the world but just becuase I have different ideas to you you wouldn't ever believe I have had a difficult job in my life.
 
To put things into context, from your above comments, do you not see that the occasional sickie puller, is not a worthless waster, but somone who struggles to work with what is basicly, a hostile and un-involving environment? does that not strike you as a managerial problem, rather than a personel problem?
 
Cor, this is turning into that Monty Python sketch in here.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
"You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt."
 
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In all honesty, both a managerial problem and a personal problem. Employers really do have a duty to provide a good working environment. But employees shouldn't use a poor working environment as an excuse to pull sickies.

This has of course gone rather OT now. As the OP just wanted to know if he could get sacked :p
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Cor, this is turning into that Monty Python sketch in here.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
"You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt."
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:D Just what this thread needed :)
 
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