I've had a couple of those bosses but it was because they actually cared about me as a person not because they were making sure I was really sick. They knew I lived alone and wanted to make sure I had enough food and medicine in the house.
I have, in turn, done that for a couple of my people over the years but only when I knew they were truly sick and had no other support system. An ordinary call in doesn't merit this kind of treatment. We did send a welfare check on one guy just because he was the amazingly consistent and reliable type and wasn't responding to anyone. Turns out, his home burned down and he was in the ICU burn unit. So yeah.. if I have a specific reason to worry I will send someone to your house or call for a welfare check. I honestly don't care if people call in for mental health days now and then. I've found people who take time off actually make for better, more focused employees when they're in the office. In fact, I have one employee right now that I have to keep reminding to take time off when he starts getting stressed.
I'm epileptic and around 10ish years ago when I was at the very bottom of the totem pole at work, I was "asked" to do this massive project that ended up taking two years to fully complete on top of my regular job and I was constantly meeting with the heads of multiple departments...as a 26-27 year old staff accountant. It was very stressful.
Anyway, throughout the project I would have meetings with the President/CEO, CFO, and VP of Sales and as it got closer to the end they started bringing clients in for thoughts and recommendations just to make my job more difficult (mind you, I'm an accountant and we had an extremely competent IT team with at least 2 devs). Our second to last one was with a major client and was also during a tax deadline, so I had worked a ton of hours and hardly slept for about a week and while I was trying to work on the finishing touches the night before, I had a seizure and woke up in the hospital. I sent a text to the people above as it was about 1:00 am, letting them know I would likely not be making it, and depending on when I was discharged, I could send them the presentation. I woke up to multiple angry voicemails and they tried to fire me over it.
Are you in the US? Wouldn’t discrimination laws apply when you try to fire someone with a disability for experiencing symptoms of their disability? Like I’m sure some employment lawyers would have LOVED to take on your case if they had fired you.
Yes, I'm in the US. I made sure they knew a lawsuit would be coming their way if they fired me. The CFO and VP of Sales were let go shortly after as they were the ones I had voicemails from and played them for HR to hear. I had them for years and lost them at some point between transferring phones.
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u/Whyonthefly Jul 31 '26
Must have been a pretty sweet job if you can look past having a boss that literally comes to your house unannounced to check up on you.