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[chrisms]

Company policy says that within the first three months of employment any absence from work will result in a final warning. My car broke down at lunch one day and I missed the second half, resulting in a final warning. This was about a month ago.

The last two days I have missed work. My girlfriend dumped me and I have the flu, but since neither of those work as excuses I've taken advantage of the snowfall we had recently and said it was too icy to drive. This is partially true considering my truck is rear-wheel drive and can't handle the snow worth a damn. The past two days I've left a voicemail with the supervisor and not shown up for work, although most of today the roads seemed pretty clear.

I find it odd that I haven't heard from the company since when my car broke down they called me, my girlfriend, and my mom numerous times trying to find out where I was. This even though I had called one supervisor and the attendence line. Why aren't they trying as hard this time, and..

Do you think I'm fired? The next two days are my scheduled day off so I guess I won't find out until Saturday.

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Yea, you're pretty much done for.

And since when is the flu not an excuse? Even if I wanted to come in to work with the flu... they would send me home. They don't want me infecting the rest of the office.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage
Yea, you're pretty much done for.

And since when is the flu not an excuse? Even if I wanted to come in to work with the flu... they would send me home. They don't want me infecting the rest of the office.

 

[hypn0tik]

Start the job hunt.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage
Yea, you're pretty much done for.

And since when is the flu not an excuse? Even if I wanted to come in to work with the flu... they would send me home. They don't want me infecting the rest of the office.

They would want a doctor's note. This guy had a medical issue with his legs that could've resulted in him losing them, and they just told him to "call the attendence line and bring a doctor's note." Seeing as how my health insurance hasn't kicked in and it isn't the worst sickness ever, I don't want to blow a bunch of money at the doctor.

 

[chrisms]

Are you all sure enough that I shouldn't even bother coming in on Saturday? I thought I at least had a chance. Anyway I was going to quit after a week anyway because I'm going back to school.. it would've been nice to have that extra pay though.

 

[JoeFahey]

They wouldn't put that in the company policy to not enforce it...

 

[TreyRandom]

It's certainly not a good sign that they're not calling you. Sounds like they've given up on you and simply written you off.

Hope the job wasn't worth taking some extra effort finding a way into work, snowfall or no snowfall.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Call your boss and ask him/her.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: JoeFahey
They wouldn't put that in the company policy to not enforce it...

From what I've heard it's only enforced during the actualy training period, which has passed. A co-worker missed a few hours the other day and didn't get fired.

 

[TreyRandom]

Originally posted by: chrisms
Are you all sure enough that I shouldn't even bother coming in on Saturday? I thought I at least had a chance. Anyway I was going to quit after a week anyway because I'm going back to school.. it would've been nice to have that extra pay though.

Dude, why don't you just call them? Today or tomorrow? Doesn't matter if it's your day off... just man up and call them and find out.

EDIT: Seems your signature is well chosen.

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
Call your boss and ask him/her.

Better yet, call your boss and ask if you can make up your lost time on the days you were scheduled to be off.

 

[JoeFahey]

Originally posted by: chrisms

Originally posted by: JoeFahey
They wouldn't put that in the company policy to not enforce it...

From what I've heard it's only enforced during the actualy training period, which has passed. A co-worker missed a few hours the other day and didn't get fired.

Then I guess that you just have to sweat it out now.

 

[ryan256]

Show up on Saturday.... but use Thursday & Friday to get your resume ready.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: TreyRandom

Originally posted by: chrisms
Are you all sure enough that I shouldn't even bother coming in on Saturday? I thought I at least had a chance. Anyway I was going to quit after a week anyway because I'm going back to school.. it would've been nice to have that extra pay though.

Dude, why don't you just call them? Today or tomorrow? Doesn't matter if it's your day off... just man up and call them and find out.

That's true, it's just that because I'm about to quit anyway this might be easier than begging for my job back and quitting a few days later

 

[ITJunkie]

Originally posted by: TreyRandom

Originally posted by: chrisms
Are you all sure enough that I shouldn't even bother coming in on Saturday? I thought I at least had a chance. Anyway I was going to quit after a week anyway because I'm going back to school.. it would've been nice to have that extra pay though.

Dude, why don't you just call them? Today or tomorrow? Doesn't matter if it's your day off... just man up and call them and find out.

EDIT: Seems your signature is well chosen.

^yup^...call them!

 

[TreyRandom]

Originally posted by: chrisms
That's true, it's just that because I'm about to quit anyway this might be easier than begging for my job back and quitting a few days later

Just remember about burning bridges. You might not think you'll ever need it again... but you might be surprised in the future.

 

[simms]

And you're quitting in a week? Why even bother. Not like you'd get a good reference from them anyways.

 

[chrisms]

Well because you've all reinforced my belief that I don't get to jump right back into work like nothing happened, and I want to quit in a week anyways, I'm leaning towards just never going back.

 

[skrilla]

Originally posted by: chrisms

The last two days I have missed work. My girlfriend dumped me and I have the flu, but since neither of those work as excuses I've taken advantage of the snowfall we had recently and said it was too icy to drive.

Of those three excuses I would think the flu is the most legit. Your girlfriend dumping you is pretty irrelevant to the whole job thing. And too icy too drive - i dunno. I'm sure most the other coworkers made it just fine, just took a little extra time.

 

[xchangx]

Another thing to question is the fact that you plan on just quitting without a notice.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: skrilla

Originally posted by: chrisms

The last two days I have missed work. My girlfriend dumped me and I have the flu, but since neither of those work as excuses I've taken advantage of the snowfall we had recently and said it was too icy to drive.

Of those three excuses I would think the flu is the most legit. Your girlfriend dumping you is pretty irrelevant to the whole job thing. And too icy too drive - i dunno. I'm sure most the other coworkers made it just fine, just took a little extra time.

I know the gf excuse is irrelevant but I'm a internet repair rep and couldn't really deal with people yelling at me all day. Had I earned it yet I would've used some of those personal days.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: xchangx
Another thing to question is the fact that you plan on just quitting without a notice.

I would like to give two weeks notice but having only been there two months I figure if I said that they may just have me leave immediately, which I couldn't have afforded a week ago, and if I gave notice now that I can afford to quit I wouldn't be available to work in a week anyway.

 

[skyking]

I find it odd that I haven't heard from the company since when my car broke down they called me, my girlfriend, and my mom numerous times trying to find out where I was.

Why were they calling you when you could have called them? What is up with that? No payphones or cellphones nearby?

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: skyking

I haven't heard from the company since when my car broke down they called me, my girlfriend, and my mom numerous times trying to find out where I was.

Why were they calling you when you could have called them? What is up with that? No payphones or cellphones nearby?

That day was a training class. I called the trainer and let him know, and the attendence line, but the supervisors on the floor didn't hear about it and started calling everyone. I figured the trainer was my supervisor for the day and didn't notice all the calls on my phone until around 9pm.