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I read the title as he ate his bird. Kept waiting how you could accidentally eat a live bird

She took a bite, flinched in pure disgust, and then another bite, flinch, and then she ran off with it and ate it before I could get it away. Went straight for the water dish when I put her back in the cage. Birds are wild lol

Ummm, hate to say it, but you did something stupid, then repeated it 4 more times and the bird is the dumb one? She literally played you like a tune for extra food!

Well dinners gonna be well salted 🍗

Your little bird should be okay. Just don’t make a habit out of it. Provide plenty of fresh water. Many birds will eat off salt blocks for the benefits and you can give chickens/poultry the equivalent of very salty Gatorade in the summer and after an illness to help them stay hydrated. On the plus side, the bit of egg has a ton of nutrition that is excellent for birds.

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What type of job is this? Is it a restaurant job? It sounds like it

Egg is prolly fine but salt is most likely gonna be a problem. Think of it as humans, salt is bad for humans if too much is eaten so an animal that is way smaller isn’t going to be very good

I don't know why but I read the title like you have eaten ass and I was so confused when you mentioned a bird.. I need to leave this sub for a while.

What stops every manager from just ignoring sick messages then? Boom, perfect attendance

Your family sounds trashy and like you're better off without. You got kicked out at 18 by people that would get physically violent with their grown-up children whilst very sick and then refuse to talk to the teenager who tried to break it up.

The phrase "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" comes to mind. The saying actually means that bonds that you've made by choice are more important than the people that you are bound to by the water of the womb.

Do yourself a favor and find love in your not-blood family. Sounds like they're caught up in their own emotions. (If it's that serious to them, maybe you hit a nerve and exposed a little reality for them hmmmm) They'll either come around or they won't and honestly you should try to only worry about that to a point if you can. Best of luck in the future.

If you meet a guy who's single and looking and he's not romantically interested either

1: There's something very wrong with you

2: There's something very wrong with him

Chances are more likely that he's very interested and you need to read the room a little bit better :)

Also I feel nobody noticed that this manager would be really pissed off if OP had died under a car or something. Nobody is calling sick so I guess somebody will go to the cemetary to fill a penalty and ask why they didn't call?

My office coworker got a less-permanent variant : he got in the hospital in emergency and was allowed a few minutes on the phone (my wife didn't had this luxury!).
Issue? None of the bosses were there yet to receive the warning, as a last resort he tried my number and tasked me to find anybody in the hierachy that would be busy between the offices.

It worked, but anybody assuming that people with medical emergencies can follow a policy never called sick and blindingly assumes that people safety goes after the job.

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Yeah, the new manager can't be entirely blamed. But the whole point that the sick policy depends entirely on the manager when you have a central app...

Time-keeping app > Employee : Unable to fulfill service > (App : Checks shift manager, send email) > Manager notified

No more need to have a list of managers. If my wife is KO'd I don't want to have to second-guess how to call her sick.

> My only point was that 5 hours, without even direct contact will not be enough time to find a replacement, especially if she hasn't talked to the manager directly.

Not her fault when the manager didn't make sure everybody had emergency contact. A employee which is sick or enjuried literally need the simplest way to raise the issue. You can't even be sure THE EMPLOYEE will be the one calling : my wife once lost her voice and they didn't want her husband to vouch for her... yet at the same time only accepted vocal calls.

And in particular, that means a single point of contact that doesn't change depending on the manager. Sick policy shouldn't need a service-wide update because one person quit.

> I always made sure everyone had my number and I was like call anytime for any kind of an emergency.

And that's what that shitty manager didn't do. They sent an email and never checked for confirmation. You would say that it's how some humans behave... but again, the work of a manager is to manage humans.

> With enough notice I can either find someone to cover

As a manager, what do you do when you have no notice at all?
My wife got sent in the hospital in emergency because she fainted around 4pm. She was 18 at the time and not allowed to call her parents, because you know, she's an adult. She had to plead to be allowed to call... at 10pm.

> but I do need you to make sure I know, and 5 hours is pushing it.

In our country, emergency hospital procedure is that the patient is not allowed basically anything if there's no doctor to examine : no eating, no calling. If no doctor is available you're basically in prison because they have no idea what is or is not a danger to yourself.

The fact is that you are running a business, and you need to plan for the case where an employee will not even be good enough to follow the sick policy.
If your employee get hit by a car, do you let the coworker handle the entire shift?

You know no one will die if you call in sick? At the very worst your employer loses some money that day.

Because I work in healthcare and everyone would rather I stay home than getting them all infected.

Also unless you're in full PPE your single mask won't stop them getting sick.

Don't think you f'ed up because your parent doesn't have your best interest at heart.

I hope your situation at home improves, because it sounds like it's taking a toll on you.

This is so true, any manager will not take kindly to have to deal with a parent or partner.

They will want you gone, because having a third party involved that they never hired will just cause a huge headache for them.

I'm not saying i fired people over this, but definitely stopped going the extra mile for them if they had the gall to send a karen to annoy me on their behalf.

Ok, lots of people saying it was not your fault, but also: your mom calling, then yelling at you? That’s not normal.

I don't know where you work, but I'm assuming it's a store since you are 17. You should always call your place of work if you are calling out or need to speak to a manager. That number is just as good as having your manager's personal number.

>if she's aware that happens every month

It's not like a pre-scheduled thing. Teenagers have incredibly unpredictable cycles, even more so if they have any gynaecological condition.

If it's PCOS it often happens unrelated to a period, as cysts usually occur during ovulation.

I've been a manager in fast food, it really does suck to have to cover shifts on the fly but it is the most crucial part of the job. That's why hiring is so important, so that you get people who can cover gaps in a short notice.

And 5hours isn't even that bad, our industry agreement says 1hour notice is all casuals have to give.