He he he

To the subject of balance- our relationship with work should be a balance in my eyes. If we take the stance that we don’t owe them anything and we have our own priorities that are more important… this is true for the company too then. We can’t get mad at a job for looking after it’s interests first if we take that same approach really. I prefer a system where the job treats us with respect and we do the same for the job but often jobs take advantage of people. We don’t really have the details here to say who is “in the right,” was this a request for time off due to a personal emergency? A once in a lifetime opportunity? Much needed “mental health” time; or was it something more frivolous? Could the time off have been rescheduled without issue and the employee simply didn’t want to? Was there a critical event at the office that everyone was working on? Could or did the person ask for the time off sufficiently in advance and the management should have had relief in place for foreseeabl…

…e issues? We just don’t know. I’m not going to take the side of the employee simply under the assumption companies are inherently bad, I’ve met plenty of bad people too lol. If there was a way to handle the situation diplomatically or with compromise I’d fault the party or parties that didn’t take that route. If there was some pressing issue of personal interest the employee absolutely felt they needed to see through that specific day, I feel the company should have done everything in their power to allow that if it is the rare exception. If they fired this employee for an offense like this there are good odds it either wasn’t a first offense or the employee wasn’t considered a very good employee. A hospital needs janitors but Surgeons tend to be more difficult to replace and their absence tends to be more immediately noticed with more immediately severe results. So “need” is a relative term.

For once, I agree

*proprietor