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Originally Posted by scaredandconfused
I suppose it depends on the type of job, but if it's your day off and they ask you to come in, you are in no way obligated to show up. If they yell at you for refusing, then that is wrong on their part.
I am someone who can easily say no, and if I were hanging out with a friend when I received the call, I would have said I was already busy and would not be able to come in. Frankly it comes across as rude, to me, that she chose an optional shift over a friend who was over visiting. My only exception would be if she really needed the money.
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Yeah I know. I’m sure she does need the money, just like everyone ele, but yeah she could have said no. I do understand if she did it out of fear since I would have gone out of fear too but yeah I do believe she could have at least said that she was busy and if they desperately needed her than that she would be in but would be a few minutes late or something perhaps. And yeah she works the drive through at a fast food restaurant. So I’m sure someone could have done that until she showed up. Or forced the person that decided to bail to show up anyway.
But yeah, I do agree that it seems rude that she didn’t make more of an effort to see if either someone else could fill in or see if I could get home rather than have me wait at her house for four and a half hours. Ues we did hang out after she got back but still, it kind of makes other people feel obligated to interact with me. Good thing is that it hasn’t happened in the past and recently after that night when we hung out on a day off, she actually made sure she would not be called in at all and would not be available to. So given the circumstance that led her to go in, I didn’t really say much about it and it was a one time thing. But if it ever happened again, I will find a way to get home regardless of how that may be.