This went down in Kentucky ...
Okay so 2 days ago I woke up with a migraine with aura and could not make it to work. For those of you who aren't familiar, they can include slurred speech, numbness, loss of motor skills, blind-spots or blurry vision, vomiting, disorientation, aversion to light and a consistent 8 out of 10 on the pain scale. Mine are very very seldom, maybe once or twice in a couple years, but include all the symptoms and lasts for 8 to 24hrs. I know the script on what needs to be done when there is a need to call in, however I woke up a slurring idiot, smacking into the walls as I stumble for the bathroom to yack. I couldn't see the phone, find the phone, and as a result use a phone.
The #2 in charge at my place of work called my house and luckily enough my roommate dropped in by chance and answered. She gave me the phone and left (her kid's day is more important than mine and that's understandable). The supervisor said I was 15min late, the store manager was PISSED, that she spoke with him about it (as the opening manager), it wouldn't be good for me to talk to him, and that if I didn't get my ass to work within the next 15min I wouldn't have a job. Work in 15min was impossible; I couldn't hold down the damned anti-nausea meds for god sake. But, I said I understood what she was saying and was not able to get there in the allotted time. The conversation ended.
I made it to the ER finally, was admitted, hooked up to an I-V, received saline for dehydration, and received a couple happy intravenous drugs and drifted off to never-never land. Meanwhile my boss is steaming at work over the no call no show. I would never understate the aggravation it causes when staff don't show up; I'm in that boat sometimes too and I'm certain it ruined his day. That was not my intent ...as I lay across town with a vein tapped and the ceiling spinning.
Now I've been a supervisor for the past 8yrs, have HR experience with one of my city's largest employers, and I've got to tell ya I'm fla-fla-flabbergasted
. Never seen a Supervisor terminate someone at that point in the process, and I assume this can only be explained by my Supervisor's lack of training. Nonetheless, there is a reasonable expectation that an employer hold off the axe if there are medical considerations. That obviously wasn't the case here and now I have no income and my friggin' head is still sore. I was smart enough that once the negligence boom came down I didn't run the chance of flipping out on the phone. I am out of the drug-funk now and find myself rubbing my eyes while basking in the carnage one stupid ER trip cost me.
So I'm askin' for opinions from better legal minds than I. But, I do know that courts side with arguments that are based in reason. I believe that as a result of a reasonable medical event my employer was unreasonable in terminating me and this will cause un-due (and unreasonable) financial hardship. Ya I joke around, but I'm pretty much at the bottom of the economic class structure so this kills me.
Oh ya and I am being sexually harassed by the supervisor that technically fired me. I did report it to the assistant manager for advice and every other employee there knows about it. It became a big joke on their part (I'm not disliked and I think they assume I'm okay with it because I do have a dry sense of humor). I drop that fact at the end of this post because I'm not sure it matters and may be more suitable in another forum. But idk, you tell me.
Thanks all!!
Okay so 2 days ago I woke up with a migraine with aura and could not make it to work. For those of you who aren't familiar, they can include slurred speech, numbness, loss of motor skills, blind-spots or blurry vision, vomiting, disorientation, aversion to light and a consistent 8 out of 10 on the pain scale. Mine are very very seldom, maybe once or twice in a couple years, but include all the symptoms and lasts for 8 to 24hrs. I know the script on what needs to be done when there is a need to call in, however I woke up a slurring idiot, smacking into the walls as I stumble for the bathroom to yack. I couldn't see the phone, find the phone, and as a result use a phone.
The #2 in charge at my place of work called my house and luckily enough my roommate dropped in by chance and answered. She gave me the phone and left (her kid's day is more important than mine and that's understandable). The supervisor said I was 15min late, the store manager was PISSED, that she spoke with him about it (as the opening manager), it wouldn't be good for me to talk to him, and that if I didn't get my ass to work within the next 15min I wouldn't have a job. Work in 15min was impossible; I couldn't hold down the damned anti-nausea meds for god sake. But, I said I understood what she was saying and was not able to get there in the allotted time. The conversation ended.
I made it to the ER finally, was admitted, hooked up to an I-V, received saline for dehydration, and received a couple happy intravenous drugs and drifted off to never-never land. Meanwhile my boss is steaming at work over the no call no show. I would never understate the aggravation it causes when staff don't show up; I'm in that boat sometimes too and I'm certain it ruined his day. That was not my intent ...as I lay across town with a vein tapped and the ceiling spinning.
Now I've been a supervisor for the past 8yrs, have HR experience with one of my city's largest employers, and I've got to tell ya I'm fla-fla-flabbergasted
. Never seen a Supervisor terminate someone at that point in the process, and I assume this can only be explained by my Supervisor's lack of training. Nonetheless, there is a reasonable expectation that an employer hold off the axe if there are medical considerations. That obviously wasn't the case here and now I have no income and my friggin' head is still sore. I was smart enough that once the negligence boom came down I didn't run the chance of flipping out on the phone. I am out of the drug-funk now and find myself rubbing my eyes while basking in the carnage one stupid ER trip cost me. So I'm askin' for opinions from better legal minds than I. But, I do know that courts side with arguments that are based in reason. I believe that as a result of a reasonable medical event my employer was unreasonable in terminating me and this will cause un-due (and unreasonable) financial hardship. Ya I joke around, but I'm pretty much at the bottom of the economic class structure so this kills me.
Oh ya and I am being sexually harassed by the supervisor that technically fired me. I did report it to the assistant manager for advice and every other employee there knows about it. It became a big joke on their part (I'm not disliked and I think they assume I'm okay with it because I do have a dry sense of humor). I drop that fact at the end of this post because I'm not sure it matters and may be more suitable in another forum. But idk, you tell me.
Thanks all!!
