u/Horror-Adeptness-659

A few weeks ago, some other people and I asked to work from home because we were sick. They told us either use PTO or come in as usual. And, to no one's surprise, the infection spread to everyone, and now so many people are absent that if everyone used PTO, the company basically wouldn't be able to operate.

My boss just told 4 sick people on my team to work from home for the next few days, because she sits near them and doesn't want to catch it. And also, of course, because if they all stayed out, a lot of work would come to a halt. We're already hybrid and everyone has a setup at home, so there's no practical reason for anyone to drag themselves into the office while they're sick.

Honestly, maybe if they had let sick people work from home from the beginning, the whole office wouldn't be passing this infection around like a party favor.

Hi everyone,

I work in IT Support on fixed shifts (7-3, 3-11, 11-7). We need coverage all the time, so at handoff times (7am / 3pm / 11pm), there's supposed to be someone monitoring the queue and taking incoming work.

Here's the problem: when the person coming in for the shift after mine is late, the person leaving is expected to keep waiting until the other person arrives. If it's 10-15 minutes every now and then, fine, I understand that things happen.

But with a few people, it's become a habit. They seem very comfortable coming in late, and the person whose shift is ending gets stuck staying past their time as if that's just become a normal part of the job.

A few weeks ago, I left exactly when my shift ended. The person after me hadn't arrived yet, so coverage was empty for a bit. My manager emailed me afterward saying that this can't happen and that I'm expected to keep covering until the person after me is there. I haven't responded yet.

Am I wrong for thinking the real problem is the people who are always coming in late, not the person who leaves at the scheduled end of their shift? I have no problem helping when it's rare or a real emergency, but I don't want this to turn into an unofficial expectation that I stay late all the time.

How do other teams usually handle shift handoff issues like this?

Is it normal for the person leaving the shift to keep staying every time someone else is late?

note: even start thinking of updating my cv and shift to remote jobs so I can work comfortably in my home

i already applied for some jobs and prepared after reading those tips . work in my current job became as hell , thanks for reading .

I applied to a company, and after about 10 days the hiring manager called me asking if I could do a quick phone interview right then and there. I wasn't really doing anything besides playing some Apex, so I told her sure. We talked for about 50 minutes, and honestly, things were going really well. Before we hung up, she asked if I could do a video interview the next afternoon with the person whose role I'd be taking over because he was leaving. I agreed, and that also felt solid. I was very optimistic.

A few days later, they asked me to stop by and meet the rest of the department. I thought it would be a normal meet-and-greet, but it turned into a panel/gauntlet interview with 7 people firing questions at me from every direction. I got through it, they gave me positive feedback, and told me I should hear from them soon.

And then nothing. After about 8 days, I checked in. They told me they still had one more person they wanted to speak with and then they'd decide. In the meantime, a recruiter contacted me about another company on Tuesday, and by the following Monday I had an offer in my inbox for more money than the first place had been talking about.

About two weeks later, the original company suddenly sent me an offer letter. No phone call, no apology for the 4 weeks after the final interview, no context at all. Just an offer letter as if everything was normal. I waited two days and then politely replied that during that long period of silence, I had accepted another opportunity, and I wished them the best.

They came back and told me they had rejected several strong candidates because they wanted me, that they had increased the salary to match what I asked for, and that I had put them in a difficult position.

I told them they were the ones who put me in a difficult position when they ghosted me for 4 weeks and then expected me to drop everything the moment they remembered to send an offer. They had also written my last name wrong in the offer letter.

I don't know when companies decided that candidates are supposed to sit around waiting with no communication, but this whole thing needs to change.