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Boss Problems
I have a job in my school, which is nice cuz i get to be on campus and not have to move around all the time. When I first started working there, my boss was super nice to me. But, lately she's developed an attitude in general. It's frustrating because it's in the library and this is all new to me. I have never worked in a library before. For not having any experience in this field, I have been doing pretty well. I've been working there already for two months and I have gotten the hang of things. She knows that I don't have experience and this is only a student job. But, I've just noticed she's had an attitude lately. Sidenote.
Today, I have an exam for my online class tonight. I REALLY needed to study. And I needed to catch up on work. About a week ago, I made an appointment for today to get my hair done. I'm getting it dyed. So, today I got up and my mom tells me... why don't you just call in sick today since you have so much work to do? And I thought it wasn't a bad idea. I do have an appointment tonight after all and I could use the time to get work done. Big deal... people call in all the time to just have a day off and go shopping. I'm calling in so I can get work done!
But... I just thought of something. What's it gonna look like when I come in tomorrow with my hair dyed?!?!?! She's going to notice something is different? LOL
Please let me know what I should do!
Thanks!
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Calling in sick would be the easy way out, but you shouldn't need to lie, hun.
You're a human being - sometimes, people have appointments and things to do around their jobs - and when you're honest about it, you can expect your boss to understand.
Why don't you just explain to her you have an exam and need the time to study, but will catch up on everything tomorrow - it's understandable you will want to revise. As for your hair, you're not asking for time off to get your hair dyed, you're doing that in your own personal time when you wouldn't be at work anyway - so if she pulls you up on it, explain this to her.
Honesty is the best policy. She might be being a bit hard to handle recently, but she's human as well and maybe she has a few things going on outside of work causing her to act like this.
Let me know how it all goes. Good luck.
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You should go to work as usual if you want to build your reputation for being responsible.
Ask your boss if you may leave - without pay - to go to your hair appointment.
If you are not finding enough time to study, perhaps you should review how your are using your time outside of work. Studying should not be done during your work time.
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EDIT IN RESPONSE
Did you actually 'take ONE day off'?
'Cause what your question here suggests is that you lied about being sick to get out of a scheduled shift.
That's not 'taking a day off'. Everyone needs to take a day off sometimes, even at late notice, but what you did was lie. If you get a reputation at work as being dishonest and deceitful, you will eventually suffer for it. Different places of work have different cultures, but people will fire you for that behavoir. Maybe not now, but if you continue to do this, it will eventually bite you in the ass.
As other people have said, if you had legitimate reasons to need time off, you should have discussed those reasons with your employer, not lied.
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'People' do lie like this to their employers 'all the time'.
People also get fired for doing this all the time.
Not only would I fire an employee for this behaviour, I HAVED terminated employees for exactly this kind of dishonesty.
It's one thing to be new and inexperienced; it's another not to be taking your job and your commitments seriously.
I'm sure you'll be very angry when you read this advice; however, both your behaviour and your tone here suggest you are not taking your responsibility to your employer very seriously at all. You think she is giving you attitude before? She's not going to like you much more after this kind of stunt.
Of course she is going to notice your hair - and she'll know you probably weren't 100% honest with her. She might speak to you about this behaviour, or she may not. Either way, your behaviour was a huge strike against you, and if she chooses to discipline or fire you, she probably has that right.
The best thing you can do from now on, if you want this job and would like to be a positive and successful employee is to behave better, take your commitments to your employer more seriously, and renew your efforts to learn and be useful.
A lot of students would kill for a job in the school library. Don't abuse it.
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