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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you're teaching your kid to quit work every time she gets sick and doesn't have authorized leave?
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Uh, no. I'm teaching her to be a human being who is considerate and responsible.

As a parent of an immuno-compromised child, this is important stuff. We live in a society where we expect people to follow standards of courtesy.

And yeah, I think if this manager thinks she is lying, after 2 years of working and never once not working a holiday or given any reason to think she would lie, yeah, I'm as offended as she is and good for her for quitting.

Restaurant managers who expect to see someone to prove they are sick with comments that "they would send them home if they looked sick", this is the FLU. The kid has 103 fever and can barely make it to the bathroom. the entire family has the flu. Which one of us should carry the kid into your restaurant for your inspection?

I'm disgusted with making excuses for people serving food to be bullied into working when very sick. It's disgusting. Seriously it's such poor hygiene I'm completely repulsed.

All the manager had to do was tell her she had to bring in a doctors note when she returned. I would have found that request to be very reasonable.

But anyway, I'm not helicoptering, my comment was about disgusting restaurant practices, not about my kid's bitchy boss. She can handle her own employment issues just fine.
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Good for you and your daughter. If he is willing to fire a good employee over having a fever and the flu, it would be better if she looked for another job. There are plenty of service positions in the DC area and I bet it would be totally workable to quit and find another when you feel better, if you did not need the daily income.

I know most service positions are like this (the pressure to come in with illness), in any industry, and I hate it! It's one reason I don't go out to eat very much any more, and I would never, ever, ever go to a restaurant on a holiday. I guess there are a lot of people with better immune systems who just don't care. And no, I'm not the OP, but can really see why she is disgusted if she had not realized this before...[/quote]

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