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How to Handle this situation

  • 19-02-2010 10:54am
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey,

    So I work in a large grocery shop and I am due to submit my final year thesis next Friday and I was looking for Saturday off( I have 5 hours on Saturday's rota and work every weekend) to work on it. This would have been the second day I have ever asked for off with exception of summer holidays (I've been there 4 years)and I asked on Wednesday morning, giving them enough time to find a replacement out of 4 other staff members. I got a phone call yesterday and was informed that "it didn't suit and tough luck but your are coming in". It's not really this that annoys me but the fact that I did the correct thing rather than ringing in 30 mins before my shift and said "I'm sick" when really I'm just hung over... Just looking for advice on how to deal with this kind of thing. Should I just play the same card in the future or what?


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  • #2
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Do you have numbers for any of the other staff that you could ask to cover your shift? If one of them was agreeable you might be able to call back and explain that you really need the day and have asked such-and-such who's happy to cover your shift?

    I left quite a good part-time job in Dunnes many years back over something similar OP. Unfortunately there's not much you can do about it if they decide not to accomodate you.


  • #3
    Miaireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭Miaireland


    Like Sleepy said I would contact the other people directly. When the boss contacted them (if they did) they might not have known how important it was that you swap the day.

    Hope that you get the day off and that the Thesis goes well.


  • #4
    cherrycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭cherrycool


    Similar situation happened to me, I needed the afternoon off for an exam (I even offered to work the morning instead at the exam wasn't until two!) and he said that was OK, then later decided it wasn't... so I simply rang in sick that morning. He knew full well what I was doing but I'm only part time, ten hour contract so its not like he could demand proof. And, similarly to you, I had never asked for a day off in a year of employment, nor had I ever called in sick.

    Yeah.. I know that wasn't much help really, but sometimes bosses are just a**holes :rolleyes: I would contact another member of staff and beg ;)


  • #5
    viclemronny
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 252 ✭✭viclemronny


    Best bet is to contact other staff as others have said. Other than that, just take the day off if you can. You probably know best what the consequences will be (some managers might just give you awkward shifts for a while, others may be more sever) and see if you can accept them.

    I assume that being in final year, you won't be staying there long and you'll need a decent amount of time off to study for finals.


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