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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Calling in sick question
When you call in sick, how do you do it? (phone, email, text)
Who do you contact (your supervisor? your colleagues? your staff? your assistant?)?
My practice has always been to email my supervisor first. I email rather than call because she is attached to her iphone and will get the email faster. Then I email my staff and assistant to tell them that I will be out. I don't tell my colleagues unless I need to cancel a meeting or something. I assume they'll figure it out or can wait until the next day. Then I update my out of office message.
Re: Calling in sick question
This hasn't happened since the great stomach virus incident of November 2010 (my entire local department got it on the same day), but I call my supervisor and then my job coordinator (so she can potentially reassign work). I leave VMs on their office phones because they are in different time zones and still sleeping. My supervisor sends out a daily e-mail of everyone's attendance status.
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I generally e-mail my direct supervisor and team leader. I know my supervisor has his phone connected to his cell, and I don't want him to get a call at home at 7am t(but I'm OK if he sees it on his Blackberry). My supervisor doesn't get until 10 usually, and I don't know that she checks her voicemail that much. E-mail is definitely the best way to contact them.
I probably should send an e-mail to a few other people on my team, but I don't usually. Often, though, unless I'm really sick, I will try to do some work from home--at least answer e-mails and maybe get on calls--so I'm not completely "gone."
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I couldn't even tell you who my manager is these days - every day six more people quit my company, so the organization structure is a mess.
Yesterday, kid was home sick (normally at daycare) so I "called out" even though I work from home - I just emailed anyone who I thought might be looking for me.
I obsessively check email on phone anyway, I knew I wouldn't actually be missed, but it'd keep people from calling the house in case kid was napping.
Lately, I email (from my personal account) my boss, our two admins, and the co-worker I do the most work for (since he covers for me with our clients when I'm out). I can't change my out of office from home, so hopefully anyone outside that circle will end up asking one of the people I've told for help. I don't call beacuse it's too much of a PITA to remember how to broadcast a voicemail to four different numbers at the same time.
our policy is to call until we get a live person (vs. voice mail), anyone in the office will do; that person then sends out an email to the whole office letting everyone know so-and-so called in sick and won't be that day
I wish my workplace did this. I answer the phones and transfer calls, and have no idea when someone isn't here unless someone tells me or I call and ask (which I try not to do a lot, since I don't want to be a pain). It's very frustrating when all of the calls bounce back to me when someone's out...
As for my calling in sick, I have to notify my boss and or co-worker the night before if possible, because then my coworker will work my hours instead of hers. I just call them on their cell phone.
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When I was working, I would call my manager's office phone and leave him a voicemail. (usually it was early enough that i knew getting to work just wasn't going to happen, but too early for him to be in the office). I also would call my asst manager just in case my manager didn't come in for some reason so she would know too. I never even thought to email it, but my office isn't the type where everyone has a smartphone to check their work email. even if I did email in, no one would get it til they got to the office.
Then my asst. manager would inform the office on who was out for the day when she emailed our daily schedule.