Gotta Take Care of Mom
Day before my mom had been feeling bad, calling me at work and giving me updates. I finally convince her she needs to go to the ER, and I tell her to stay put and that I will be there soon to take her.
Of course, she insisted that I stay at work but whatever that’s my mom. I’m taking her to the ER. (Btw mom has history of bad health and issues and what not) I tell my direct manager I’m leaving, and she’s like fine whatever.
Make up the hours…fine.
Next day and my mom is still not great but it’s fine. I got her meds, but they still need to run other tests. So I decide to stay home with her and take care of her and run errands (medical related stuff) for her.
I call out leaving a message with our customer service desk, but soon after I get a call from a manager of a different department asking why I called out.
I tell her I need to take care of my mom. The manager says, “Oh, what’s wrong with her? I’m sure she’ll be fine at home.” Me: “No?
I left early yesterday to take her to the er, and she’s still weak.” The manager continues to try and convince me my mom is fine, and I need to come in.
I give in and tell her all the gory medical details. The manager is unrelenting and finally finished with the cherry on top of, “I’m sure your mom would rather you have a job to come back to.”
I answered her with, “See but I can go out and get another job. I can’t go out and get another mom. I’m staying home today to take care of my mom.”
She said something about seeing me the next day in an attempt to end the convo and say bye so I said yeah we’ll see how she’s doing said goodbye and hung up.
Felt great ‘cause I’m normally a push over… but not when it comes to my mom.
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