my dad is upset at me for taking two days off of work

Um it's 2 days? How long have u been working there?

 

You can tell him about the error of his ways, but he might refuse to listen. The real issue is 'should you go to work with a cold'?

If you are quite new there, they might be able to fire you, without giving reasons. If you have a contract, then I don't see what the hell is wrong with 2 days off. For that I would only have to provide a doctor's note. If people force themselves to work all the time, despite sickness, they are less efficient overall. It also goes the other way if people are accustomed to taking time off. It can become progressively (mentally) difficult to return to work. It's a balancing act of health vs money.

Do you have a fever? Do you feel capable of working? If the only reason you're staying off is to prevent other people getting colds... probably go to work. You cannot prevent these people from catching colds elsewhere. Unless you work in a retirement home or such. Ask yourself if a cold is dangerous for your line of work. Maybe take a tablet and carry loads of tissues. Perhaps your work allows you to wear warmer clothing due to the low temperature. I see plenty people go to work with colds. I keep my distance from them.

 

Alright, first off, are you still living with him? Because regardless, he's got no legal right over you. Might not be the best person to advise you on your situation with your parents considering my mother, but anyway, you're a legal adult and I assume because you're working at a super market, you're working a position that requires you handling food to some degree. Isn't handling food with an illness a health code violation? Either way, you were sick and to the point where going to work meant exposing customers and co-workers to illness. Generally speaking, that's something anyone wants to avoid...

Honestly? Your Dad's full of shit.

 

It will probably come down to if you are part time or full time. If you were full time, then 4 days would be a problem, as this means another full timer would have to come in, or a part timer, who may have been banking on having this time off, will have to fill in. If anyone else can fill in, you should be fine. But you may want to try and not take any more days off, for a few months, so that they will ease up.

If you are part time, then the risk of trouble occurring rises, because, sadly, most part timers are considered expendable. If you don't show up to work, what good are you? So, you may get a warning, or some cut hours. The worst they can do is fire you, but if you have been there for 6 months, and you haven't done anything to offend your employers, then this may not even be an option.

It's going to come down to how well you get along with your employers, and how much you contribute to the work environment. Having worked in retail, I once was sick on a holiday weekend (Black Friday), and I wasn't able to make it. Naturally, my boss, when I returned to work that Sunday, called me in and chewed me out. Bad. Real bad. After about half a hour of berating, she told me to turn in my name tag and get out. I told her I would, but not before she heard me out.

I told my boss that I was a human being, and you can't yell at me like some animal. I got sick. If I had come in to work, there is a likelihood a lot of people would have gotten sick, especially since it was Black Friday. I also called her out on the fact, if this was any other normal weekend, she'd have accepted it. I concluded with telling her, if she was this anal about the state of the store as she was one damn weekend, that maybe she wouldn't be in the financial trouble she was in, and that perhaps she could keep an employee for longer than a month.

I was told to leave, but that manager wound up getting let go due to financial trouble, and the new manager, a former employee, wound up hiring me back, because she knew I was in the right.

If you called in and let them know, and were polite about it, and have a good record with them, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

Fingers crossed for you anyway, though.

 

Then you should be fine. I wouldn't worry about that aspect.

As for your father, everybody else here has covered the bases pretty well. The only thing I would add is, if your father thinks you can go to work, as you describe yourself as feeling, then he is either putting finances over family, or he's oblivious to your state.

Now, and I don't want this to seem as if I am coming off as being harsh, but sometimes people find it hard to believe we're sick if, we are doing anything but laying in bed. Watching television, using a phone, being on a computer, getting up to get a glass of water, anything like that, may tell people you aren't as bad as you claim to be. Maybe this could get him off your back. If not, then you'll just have to endure it, and next time he gets sick, be sure to tell him to get up and go to work, no matter how he feels.

 

You dad can be upset with you, but, in the end, it is your decision what you do with your life. He may not always approve, but, he will always love you.

 

If you have a doctor's note and are union, you should be fine. If not, you never know. I had a frequent illness with a doctor's note and was let go, mainly because I wasn't union.

 

I would touch base with a steward then when you get back.

 

Yay, I got to use my labor negotiations class in college for something. (!)

 

Yeah, but if I had to do it over again, I would have studied psychology I think. Our psychology department was really hard, and we had some bad profs(in my opinion). The reason I say this is because that way I would have confronted my denial at 23-24 than 31.