Yikes!

So I think I got someone in trouble at work today. I didn't mean to, but it's not my fault.

Our PR/HR lady knows that she needs to call into her supervisor when she is sick. However, for the past 5-6 years she has called someone else. She says that is because she knows he is up when she calls. Also, there have been a few occasions she has called me on my cell phone to let me know she won't be in. I am not her supervisor, but I relay the message and for the most part it is fine.

However, there have been a couple of occasions where she has forgotten to call in. We knew she wasn't feeling well the day before, but there isn't an excuse to not calling in anyway. In March she took a sick day and apparently called the other guy. He just wasn't in town. He was in AZ and told her that she needed to call someone else. So she called another person (not her supervisor) and left a message on his cell phone that she was sick. He wasn't going to be in that day, so the message wasn't conveyed to us. So her supervisor called her that afternoon to find out where she was. She was mad that we called. We had no right to call because she called in. Her supervisor straightened her out and told her the expectations of calling him, no one else.

Today she wasn't in. I figured she called the one guys she calls all the time, but he said she didn't. Her supervisor called her and she told him that she had left me a message. There was no message on my machine and so I played the "no messages" tape for her supervisor. Tomorrow isn't going to be a good day. She is going to be mad that we called her. Then it's going to be my fault she got in trouble, even though she knew she needed to call her supervisor. Oh well!!