Missing Work

So here's the deal. I work on a Navy Base at a department store full time (for the moment at least). I've worked there for about 2 and a half months now, and I've missed, at the most, 3 days of work.

Well, yesterday I called out because I wasn't feeling well, threw up once and then started to feel better that night. I figure it was one of those 24 hour bugs. This is where the situation gets sticky.

I woke up today an hour late for work. Somehow my alarm on my phone didn't go off, even though when I checked it it was set and ready to go. At my job, if you're that late you shouldn't even bother coming in. So I tried calling, but the only phone numbers I had were busy or not answered. So then my boss calls me not too long ago asking where I am. I say I called out yesterday because I was sick and I tried to today but to no avail. I tell her that hopefully I'll be in tomorrow. She says "Yeah well, not without a doctors note."

Now I'm stuck. You can't just MAKE a doctors appointment for whenever you want, and at the moment my doctor is backed up by about 4 days at least. Secondly, what's the point of going to a doctor for a simple stomach bug? I feel much better than I did yesterday and would be fine at work. So, since I can't see any real logic to this situation I was hoping that perhaps one of you might.

How much is your job worth to you? If you can't afford to lose it, walk into the ER, pay the crappy co-pay (should be around $50 if you have insurance) if you have to to document your illness. Or talk to the receptionist and explain the situation and see if they cannot write you up something on med center letterhead that explains that indeed you were there, and that the reason is between you and Doc.
Or just go into work and explain you CAN'T afford to go to the ER for food poisoning since your job gives you crappy/no insurance...
I'd go the ER route though if it were my job on the line. But since you are no longer ill, and your real problem seems to be an inability to contact work... that's going to be a tough one.
Bring your cell phone that has proof that you tried to call in to multiple numbers, multiple times, to show the boss that in good faith you attempted to make contact.
Next time, if you can get out of bed, drive in and tell them in person, looking like death on a bun, that [obviously] you are sick and likely to require cleanup in aisle 5....

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

Next time, if you can get out of bed, drive in and tell them in person, looking like death on a bun, that [obviously] you are sick and likely to require cleanup in aisle 5....

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That made me lol in real life.

What kind if boss would say "not without a doctors note", What the fuck is this? highschool?

Job sounds like it could be replaceable.

Plenty of jobs require a doctor's note for an occasion of illness that lasts more than a day.

If I understand this correctly, the person called in sick for five days in less than three months. That's kind of excessive, especially for someone that's new.

i have had to cover for people and work 14 hour shifts becuase they decided they were completly unable to come to work laying in the death bed... i say suckc it up bebcause someone else has to do ur job for the same pay man idk. if ur really sick tho smoke a bowl and rest up

man i've been in that same situation. I had some bitchy managers where I worked and I called in sick one day then worked the next day because it was only a 5 hour shift then the next day i had a 9 hour shift and i felt really sick so i called in and she got pissed and said i didn't even sound sick and if i wanted to work there anymore that I'd have to bring a doctors excuse. I was like "wtf?" its a sunday, most family doctors are home for the weekend. The only way i'd get a doctors excuse would be to go to the hospital, why the hell am i gonna go to the er if i just have the flu or something. plus i mean i had plenty of sick time saved up because i rarely called in. Anyway, she bitched at me the next day when i came in i just kind of ignored her and she tried to mention it but i never did bring one in. Guess they forgot about it.

i lost a job for calling the boss During a shift once, and he could see how sick i was, i was like dying and he said take two weeks, signup for unemployment, you can get better in the two weeks. When i called back to start up again, he said he would get back to me. NEVER heard from him agan about the job. If you want to keep the job, do what stinky says..hit the ER, get the freaking note. Times are hard, and the employer has the upper hand for sure. Bet he has ten or twenty aplications in his desk for your job.

Oh and the a hole who never called me back, was my uncle, what a jerk. To this day i will NEVER forgive him, or give him the time of day. I guess working for family means never having to call them back.

I work for the biggest retailer in the world... aka wal-mart.. stocking produce.

In 90 days, Ive called in once wasnt sick but had something I couldnt miss. Been late from time to time.

My only advise is.. Spread out your sick days. Its never good to have back-to-backs. You dont want to stand out... blending in is the key.