Work now allowing time off for hospital appointment

ValHaller

The_Magnificent_Spoon wrote: »

He removed the entry I had out in my diary, clearly labelled 'Hospital appointment', and replaced it with a job. Quite how he could think what you're suggesting, is impossible.

The rest of your post is again, garbage trolling. You should be careful over who you go calling a 'total idiot'. There is only one of those in this thread, and its not me.

I endorse the suggestion that you get yourself signed off with stress.

You are being an idiot to yourself. There is only one person being an idiot to themselves on this thread. And there are no trolls.

Annisele

I think ValHaller has a valid point.

If the client meeting was with your favourite ever client, you still wouldn't want to go - you'd want to go to your previously booked hospital appointment. So, your feelings about the client don't have anything to do with this, and I think including them does confuse matters.

From what you say, there's no way your employer could reasonably actually think you'd arranged the appointment to get out of seeing the client. But your employer could well say they thought that, and conveniently forget about the order all of this happened.


(On a separate note, if you're the only person who could run this client meeting, does that mean you refusing to work with them would mean your employer had to drop this particular client? If so, it might be reasonable for your employer to insist you do work with them - depending of course on what the previous issues were.)

ValHaller

Annisele wrote: »

From what you say, there's no way your employer could reasonably actually think you'd arranged the appointment to get out of seeing the client. But your employer could well say they thought that, and conveniently forget about the order all of this happened.

Thanks Annisele, that is exactly the point.

The least favourite client

• is irrelevant to the matter
• is not the least bit helpful mentioned here
• is downright counter productive when mentioned to the employer in the context of the appointment
• and is destructive of the OP's outlook

Dunroamin

The_Magnificent_Spoon wrote: »

The rest of your post is again, garbage trolling. You should be careful over who you go calling a 'total idiot'. There is only one of those in this thread, and its not me.

Are you like this at work?

ValHaller

The_Magnificent_Spoon wrote: »

I wouldn't like to call in sick when I am not. They know very well that nuclear war wouldn't take me down, it would come across as way too convenient if I were suddenly ill and it would be found out...!

If nuclear war won't stop you, your body is having a darned good try. FGS, the more I see of your bl00dy mindedness, the more I see that your body will bring you to a complete halt unless you listen to it and deal with the underlying stress.

zzzLazyDaisy

There's a saying

"listen to your body when it whispers, because you won't like it when it screams"

OP you need to sort your eye out. Go off sick with stress, keep your appointment and save your sight. No job is worth permanently disabling yourself for.

FBaby

It's up to you. You can decide to go to the appointment and risk them sacking you, or you ask them whether it you are able to book another time to allow to dedicate your time on this project you can be assured that they will let you take the time off.

As you've said, the issue of not wanting to work on this project is another matter all together. After all, if it wasn't for the appointment, you would have no choice but to do it if they insisted. You need to accept this.

You can of course decide to go off on stress, but that's starting a downwards relationship with your employer and taking this choice, I would start looking for other jobs.

Saying that, I agree that your sight is essential and if the hospital can't give you another time and they confirm that you would put your health at risk if you didn't go, I would request all this to be put in writing, inform your boss that you had no choice but to go, and take the company on if they discipline you or sack you for it.

Nicki

FBaby wrote: »

You can of course decide to go off on stress, but that's starting a downwards relationship with your employer and taking this choice, I would start looking for other jobs.

You say this as though stress is not a legitimate medical complaint or the OP is pretending to suffer from it to wangle some time off.

Personally I think if stress is causing your sight to fail to the extent that you can't do part of your job involving computer use AND putting you at serious risk of permanent blindness, then it is a far more real medical complaint than a lot of the carp people take time off work for such as "flu" which is in reality a bad cold or "food poisoning" aka a hangover.

liney

I'd go down to the Doctors first thing on Monday morning and sit and wait to see him. I'm pretty sure my GP would write a note to say my appointment was non-negotiable, or sign me off.

usefulmale

Only a total fool would choose a job over their eyesight. Will the company keep you on when you go blind?