O-Trap;582338 wrote:In a vacuum, certainly.

However, if his boss ever decided to use that little noodle of his, he could probably put 2 and 2 together.

"Employee is at the hospital with people he cares about more than me. Probably doesn't want to leave them to make a phone call, but still wanted to keep me informed. What a slacking pussy bitch!"

THAT doesn't seem like appropriate logic.

Fab1b;582404 wrote:I just think in this day and age and with the technology we have at most places this should be acceptable if you have a direct supervisor/management. Now if you work in lets say a call center where yes you have a supervisor but you have schedule that is actually updated by another department (which is my job) those reps actually need to call and talk or leave a message on the supervisor assist line so they can report that to my department.

LJ;582408 wrote:I think it has to do with security and verification issues.

Fab1b;582417 wrote:Understood there, however normally when you take off work for whatever reason some sort of benefit needs to be used. So where I work (State Farm) when I text my boss I am out for whatever he actually has to submit a form on my behalf to deduct my benefits so that is how it will be tracked at least here. Then when I complete my timecard for the pay period that absence also needs to reflect on my timecard and before it is sent to payroll the supervisor again must assure my timecard is legit before approving.

LJ;582424 wrote:That is no different either, but that doesn't mean that you supervisor is properly accepting your call off, aka official company policy. So in other words if you do something that your boss normally allows, but then he gets pissed at your for calling off on a day he really needs you or thinks you are abusing the system, if you are not following actual company policy, no matter what your boss has accepted in the past, you can get into trouble.

gerb131;582441 wrote:I've called collect to call off before. You gotta speak to someone in person.

O-Trap;582503 wrote:In person?

So go into work to call off work?

genghis dong;582162 wrote:My boss is such a dick! Both my 22 month and 8 month old sons got rushed to the ER around 3 am this morning. So I text my boss and tell him I won't be in cause my kids are in the ER. He texts me back basically that my job is more important than my kids. I blew it off at first, but have gotten 5 or more nasty texts since then. I never just call off I show up sick if I can, and do whatever he asks me within reason. So how do I handle this. I would love to just bash his head in tomorrow, but I won't, and I don't think I can be civil enough to have a convo with him about it.

genghis dong;583506 wrote:Just to shed some more light on the subject. I was texted 15 times by my boss after my first text.

ernest_t_bass;583520 wrote:Genghis - Can you give any of the ambiguous information to us? What was the problem? Kids OK? Why boss had an issue? Etc. I think there is too much information left out for many people to make a fair assessment of the situation.

Or, perhaps that was your intent

ernest_t_bass;583520 wrote:Genghis - Can you give any of the ambiguous information to us? What was the problem? Kids OK? Why boss had an issue? Etc. I think there is too much information left out for many people to make a fair assessment of the situation.

Or, perhaps that was your intent

genghis dong;583579 wrote:Don't know why he had an issue we used to have a good relationship

Commander of Awesome;583585 wrote:Trying so hard to not be a dick and state the obvious here....

Fab1b;583589 wrote:And yet you are reporting all these posts with name calling and profanity!! SMH