Not only did this boss have absolutely no right to question his employee's decision to call in sick, but also he made things even worse by trying to make a joke out of it. If you've ever been someone's manager, you would know that while having a sense of humor can lighten the tension, having a bad sense of humor can produce the complete opposite effect.
This thread was posted to Reddit by u/ShiftyPom, who worked for a small family-run business and had recently been working overtime for several weeks in a row. This combined with a lack of sleep naturally led to the employee getting sick. When he called his boss to say he wasn't coming in that day, his boss responded with a "Somebody's Got a Case of the Mondays" gif, which, of course, is way out of line. Even if it were true and the employee simply needed a day to himself, his boss simply cannot question it since OP is totally entitled to those days.
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