‘I was woken about an hour ago to a coworker at my door’: Night-shift worker’s day off is ruined when management sends a colleague to his door after another employee didn’t show

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  • Coworker sent to my house by management.

    "I immediately told him that showing up at my house is NOT okay"
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  • For context, I work overnights, so I sleep during the day.
  • I was woken about an hour ago to a coworker at my door asking if I'd be willing to come in to work today because a different coworker didn't show.
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  • I immediately told him that showing up at my house is NOT okay and to never do it again. "I will
  • discuss working extra hours with them tomorrow, but tonight is my night off. I'm not
  • coming in." He told me that it was my manager and assistant manager that insisted he show up
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  • at my house to ask me in person since I wasn't responding to texts or calls. (I was, surprise
  • surprise, sleeping!) Eight phone calls, two voicemails, and four texts.
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  • My coworkers know where I live because I'm a two-minute drive down the road and they have
  • been kind enough to drop me off after a shift due to my car breaking
  • down(blown head gasket, it's a lost cause). So, thankfully they didn't
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  • search up my address in the database and give it out, but still. Highly inappropriate.
  • I gotta wonder, is it even legal for coworkers/employers to do that?
  • Either way, it's back to sleep for me. (Sure would be funny if either of my two coworkers that I
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  • know use Reddit saw this. One of which is the assistant that sent my coworker to my house.)
  • CoderJoe1 It's not illegal as far as I know, but they've certainly shown you how little they respect you. I'd make up reasons to call them in the middle of the night a few times to repay them.
  • MNConcerto I worked nights, getting woken up by inconsiderate asshats was my biggest peeve.
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