A kitchen hand has revealed the shocking text messages she received from her boss after she called in sick with a ‘very contagious’ illness.
The American employee sent a copy of a doctor’s note to her boss, which revealed she had a severe strain of flu and couldn’t return to work for at least 24 hours after her symptoms went away.
Taking to Reddit she said had a high fever and periodic vomiting – two things listed in her work rules as non-negotiable grounds for going home and staying there.
But her manager seemed to forget that.
He read the message and replied: ‘So will you be in tomorrow?’
She said she wouldn’t and tried to explain how unwell she was again but he ‘stopped replying’.
‘He is one of those managers who just doesn’t write back if he doesn’t like what you say,’ she said.
She copped her boss’s wrath when she didn’t turn up the next day.
A kitchen hand has revealed the shocking text messages she received from her boss after she called in sick with a ‘very contagious’ illness
‘He told me if I didn’t show up the following day he would give me a ticket for absence,’ she said.
‘This isn’t the first time he has bullied myself of my colleagues into showing up sick.’
She explained she was so unwell she had only left the house when she took her daughter to hospital as she was struggling with the flu too.
‘I was so exhausted after coming back from the hospital I just crashed for 12 hours,’ she said.
Redditors slammed the manager’s actions and insisted it wasn’t a ‘normal’ attitude in the hospitality industry.
‘It must be tough working for someone that stupid – you should go sneeze in his mouth,’ one wrote.
‘They probably understood it fully. They just don’t care. Some managers/executives will say whatever they feel like to get things done so they can say they did something,’ another added.
‘Yea, this ain’t your problem. Tell him you will be resting, and won’t be at work, and leave it at that. You have no obligation to be there,’ a third chimed in.
Others expressed their disgust at such behaviour given they worked in a kitchen.
‘I can’t believe he would let people work like that let alone encourage or try to force them too. It makes me never want to eat out again,’ one ranted.
‘You need to call the health inspector,’ another demanded.
Many said this was not the case in their kitchen and urged readers not to be deterred by the actions of one ‘rogue’ boss.
‘I had hand foot and mouth and had barely spoken the words to my boss and I was cleared for two weeks, told to have a test after that and come back once I passed,’ an employee wrote.
‘I remember going to work with a bad cough when I worked at a fast food place and I didn’t even have time to clock on before I was sent home,’ another said.