Hey redacted school office, please give me the next winning powerball numbers, since according to your protocol, we're supposed to know of an emergency before it happens. Mamma needs a new pair of shoes!
It is part of the employee work policy at several workplaces. So, what's the meaning of emergency? Online dictionary, "serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action." So, yea, am expecting the unexpected every time I leave the house.
True story: after working at the new job on the evening shift almost a year, I called into work in the morning as I'd been vomiting early that the morning. Since I worked evenings, I wanted to warn someone to be be available since most people don't like to be called to work a late shift if someone calls in at the last moment. By 3 PM I was feeling a lot better, and I called back to say that I'd be able to make it. "Nope, we've got it covered. Don't bother." (Oh, by the way, you just lost your Christmas bonus by being absent, plus a day's work. Oh well.)
Yep. Administrative rear-covering.
ReplyDeleteAnd how do you attain a form?!?
ReplyDeleteHey redacted school office, please give me the next winning powerball numbers, since according to your protocol, we're supposed to know of an emergency before it happens. Mamma needs a new pair of shoes!
ReplyDeleteI feel a slight emergency coming on. Where can I get a form?
ReplyDeleteIt is part of the employee work policy at several workplaces. So, what's the meaning of emergency? Online dictionary, "serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action." So, yea, am expecting the unexpected every time I leave the house.
ReplyDeleteTrue story: after working at the new job on the evening shift almost a year, I called into work in the morning as I'd been vomiting early that the morning. Since I worked evenings, I wanted to warn someone to be be available since most people don't like to be called to work a late shift if someone calls in at the last moment. By 3 PM I was feeling a lot better, and I called back to say that I'd be able to make it. "Nope, we've got it covered. Don't bother." (Oh, by the way, you just lost your Christmas bonus by being absent, plus a day's work. Oh well.)
ReplyDeleteI sense a conjuring of an omen, hey a portend , no it is a freaking emergency coming. Grab some forms
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the hospital administrator who wanted to know why we OB docs couldn't predict our emergencies.
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