Message #67909

[Jackie G]

Here's a different angle to the story.

A colleague who lives about 20 mins drive didn't make it in to work today.  By the time we'd reached core time of 10 am, we were starting to worry as she hadn't phoned in to speak to her line manager.  She doesn't keep particularly well and hasn't felt well in recent weeks though has not been off work.

So eventually her line manager and another colleague went to drive to her flat to check she was ok - this was after ringing a friend who also hadn't heard from her today.  They got there - no answer, and were about to leave when she drew up in her car.  They stopped, and she was ok, but had been up ill all night and had gone to the doctor.

Here's the ironic bit.  We've just had a new phone system installed with fancy voicemail (fancy to us!) and so she phoned and left a message with - not her line manager, cos he had been off as his son was ill - another manager, who even more ironically, phoned in to take a day off unexpectedly as HIS son was ill today!

How mad is that?!

But what a nice caring attitude for this organisation where I am a long term temp, that they were concerned enough to drive out to her house to see if she was ok.

There is hope for the world yet...

Jackie, Peer Moderator