Forum Overview :: Still Life :: I may have to give my boss real credit here

[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="Ligma"][quote name="laudablepuss"]I got an email shortly after I got back from being sick. It was from HR saying I had been selected for random drug testing. I could still hardly get around my house much less leave it so I pretty much ignored it. Also it pissed me off, I haven't had to do something like that in 25 years. Later I got an email asking if I went. No I didn't, I replied, I've been very sick and just got out of the hospital. Now, I had skimmed the email looking for a due-date or something. I missed that I was supposed to go WITHIN 30 MINUTES of getting the email. It's bananas. I wonder if they'll wait a week and then send me another one. Good times.[/quote] A decent boss uses what happened here to tell HR to knock it the fuck off and leave you alone and if you have a problem with it, let's get on a call and sort it out. I would guess your dude has no idea this happened . "Within 30 minutes," god, they can eat a bag of shit within 30 minutes. [/quote] He basically set our own policy for the department and told HR that's what we're doing. But HR is still pissed at me and wants a meeting, so he called me to say "let's be contrite and tell them it won't happen again, and basically get them to leave us alone". That's fine, and I appreciate calling me ahead of time. I should emphasize that this email totally blindsided me. Nobody, from HR to management to other colleagues, had ever mentioned this. I'm sure it was in the handbook I e-signed but there was zero communication about it. Also, I was pretty fucking sick that day -- Sat and Sun were two of the worst days for me -- it took me three hours to finally take my pills, for example. Get out of bed, get water, open pill bottles . . . everything was a struggle. So I was surprised to be upright at my desk on Monday (the day this BS was sent) for as long as I was.[/quote]