“Don’t worry, if you have broken your leg, I can give you a chair” – imagine that you will receive this message from your boss while lying in bed with a broken foot, simply seek consent to sick leave. Ben Askins, known for sharing the content of toxic workplaces and exploitative managers, recently published Chat WhatsApp between the employee and their boss – and is now gaining massive traction on social media.
The conversation reveals that the manager constantly urges employees to return to work, even though the worker suffered a broken leg in an accident on a bike.
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Initially, the manager asks the employee at his place of stay. The employee responds that he has broken his leg and is currently in the hospital. Instead of showing concern about his well -being, the boss replied, “But I need you for Friday’s shifts.”
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The injured employee explains that doctors have recommended him to relax for several days. Yet the manager continues to push him to return. An employee who seeks to be cooperative will answer that he will certainly return if the doctor allows. The boss then says, “I can give you a chair.”
When it does not work, the manager resorts to the guilt and accuses the employees of taking time off, even though he joined the company only two weeks earlier.
“Then let me make it easier for you,” the employee replied, adding, “I stopped.”
Here’s a way that social media users reacted:
Telling a similar experience, one instagram user wrote:
“Years ago, when I worked for a publishing house that created a fashion magazine, I got sick. The boss/owner refused to give me sick days (even though I was legally entitled to them), he said” You are really ill, “then I guaranteed me.” I assure you that these scenarios are really happening. ”
Another user has been added:
“I had an employer who offered me a chair, so I could go back to work when I was gone with tendonitis in my leg. When I finally came back, I asked for a chair that was promised, and said,” We really won’t. Can’t you stand on one leg? “
The third user said:
“I worked for a company that was terrible when it allowed people off. One day I noticed a big lump in my throat. My doctor bequeathed me to an expert – available only during the day. Hospital, I was released – just to get a HR call to ask what my intentions were. I said, “I have to take care of myself. And that was that.”
The fourth person commented:
“I shouldn’t stop – not in a hundred years. A lot better to wait for a firing so I can claim.”
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