I managed to take the wrong day off work :wacko:
I would have sworn that for the next two weeks I had Saturday and Monday off. But I checked the rota just after midnight on my iPod touch and I had today listed as off and that I was working yesterday. So of course, I figured that I had probably just entered it incorrectly… I do double check it, but it could happen. So I find the paper copy, and it matched up. Oh, shit…
The most annoying thing is that I don’t know where I got the idea that I had yesterday off. All I remember is on Sunday questioning the logic of having two days off and having to work a six and a half hour day between them. But, as far as I know the rota hasn’t changed for this week either, so I’m at a loss as to where I got the idea from.
The other thing is that nobody phoned me. No messages, no voicemail. If somebody doesn’t turn up for work, wouldn’t you question why? Call to see whether I’ve overslept (I was up before 9 today), or whatever. And it’s not like it would have gone un-noticed. I work in a department with 3 other people directly and I would have had to have been in to cover the last 90 minutes, managers notice when I’m 5-10 minutes late, so they must be checking when I start.
As something like this has never happened to me before, I have no idea what’s going to happen about it. I’m going to call in tomorrow morning to well, apologise first and foremost, and I guess at least find out whether I should come in today to make up for it, whether there will be an investigation, whether I’m suspended, whether I’m fired, whether it’ll be counted as an unpaid day (which would be pretty sweet), or anything else.
I think it’s pretty much guaranteed there will be an investigation, but I don’t know what the normal proceedure for such an incident is.
OK, I’ve checked the staff handbook, which says “Payment is not made for unauthorised absence, and, when appropriate, disciplinary action is always taken.” On the plus side, under the disciplinary section it also says “You will not be dismissed for a first breach of discipline, except in the case of gross misconduct.” Unauthorised absence isn’t specifically noted under gross misconduct, although some of the examples given are quite vague. So yes, I won’t be paid for it, which I completely expected. I (hopefully) won’t be dismissed for it, but I still after reading the handbook don’t know exactly what the disciplinary procedure is. If I had a decent manager, she would probably let me work the time today and just forget about it, but unfortunately I feel the odds of that happening are similar to that of winning the lottery. I think the most reasonable thing to do is just to phone in tomorrow morning, and find out what happens from there. Hopefully they will take into account that it was truely a mistake, but… who knows? On top of that I probably won’t be able to sleep all night through worrying about it, and then oversleep tomorrow morning thus not getting a chance to call before I was supposed to start yesterday (11AM). :rolleyes:
