Manager scolds employee for leaving work early to pick up her sick 3-year-old son from daycare: 'He said I could have at least waited until a break.'

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  _{A manager reprimanding his employee for leaving work early without telling him in person or asking for permission, even though she was leaving to pick up her feverish son from daycare, which definitely counts as a family emergency, which shouldn't require permission to attend to.} 

• Am I wrong for leaving a work meeting early without telling my manager because my kid's daycare called?

  
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  _{A sick, miserable little boy holds his teddy bear after his mom picked him up from daycare because he had a high fever.}

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• Would it have gone over better if she had clarified that her son was sick and needed to be picked up from daycare immediately? Maybe so, but employees shouldn't have to divulge intimate details about their personal lives to get the respect they deserve.

  “Family emergency” is vague enough that it could mean anything, but I bet the manager would be embarrassed if he knew the nature of the emergency after he behaved the way he did.

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• The manager clearly doesn't trust his employee enough. He should know that she would never leave during a meeting like this for anything less than an emergency. 

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