Unreported absence
I am a lunch monitor at a school in Massachusetts. The workplace has been chaotic and hectic. On Thursday I reached my breaking point. We all did. The amount of disrespect, lack of communication from admin and chaos in the building caused a burnout for the three lunch monitors. Each one of us had an individual reason why we did not want to go to work the next day because we were afraid of a possible walkout or crash out. We informed the secretary & vice principal that we would not be in the next day as it was as much needed for our mental health and they said OK. I will. We went into the office in tears and no one seemed to care. The next morning we received an email from the principal saying that we needed a meeting immediately on Monday morning to discuss our “unreported absence”. The absence was reported. We are not full-time employees. We are support staff hired by the town. I am worried that we are possibly going to be terminated on Monday for not showing up even though we gave 24 hours notice. There is no attendance policy. We always just called out whenever we needed to by informing the secretary. I have worked at this school for eight years and I don’t want to be fired, but I couldn’t handle another day. I needed the weekend to reset and had every intention on coming back Monday like normal.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.