Call Patient Zero

OK so se it’s like this:

Me: Big boss, I am feeling like crap and need to go home.
Big Boss: What?
Me: I need to go home, will you cover for me?
BB: I don’t under stand.
Me: I am sick, I have sharp pains in my stomach and I know I will be puking in a little while, will you work my shift?
BB: Oh, you are sick?
Me: Yes…
BB: You go home?
Me: I want to but I need you to cover me.
BB: OK I will cover, if you are not coming in tomorrow call Little Boss and let him know.
Me: Thank you and I will do that.

I go home, drink several bottles of pepto just so I can sit on the coach. Around 6 am I just know I will not be able to come in to work so I call Little Boss, and as usual I get his voice mail, you know the one he never calls back from.

Me: Boss I am not coming in today I feel like crap, and cannot be very far from the rest room. Let me know if there is any trouble, you have my cell phone.

I crash hard.

Around 3:30pm I wake up, now mind you I work a swing shift so this is my usual start time. Wife 1.0 comes in to check on me, we chat for a bit, I ask if little or big boss called, no she tells me no one has called. Oh good, I wander into the rest room have a nice hot shower, put on clean pajamas and my robe and move out to the living room. I have a bowl of oat meal and start to feel a little normal.

At this point I was feeling ok, and I thought hey I should be able to make it in tomorrow, so I send my bosses an email saying that I will be in normal time on Thursday.

An hour later I get an email back from Big Boss:

Why you no switch shifts?
No one told me, who is working swing shift today?
Why did you not call me?


Come in right now.

So I call, little boss worked his normal shift, Big boss worked his normal shift. So I head in.

Turns out little boss “didn’t get the message” So all this I get yelled at and have to work while I am sick. Bastards…

I got even though, I coughed all over the phone, the printer, the paper for the printer and ever surface I knew they would touch.

Soon I get this email saying:

I can work swing shift. But your contact was too late.
You should tell me, if you can't get to change shifts this morning.
I may prepare to work swing shift.


You are a maintenance leader.
I'm looking forward to your good job.

Oh sure I am the lead in the fracking department, but can I get a day shift? No. So the title, it seems, can only be held over my head and servers no real purpose.

I know you want to know if little boss got yelled at as well as me, in short no. I really need a new job.