{"id":773721,"date":"2026-07-02T06:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773721\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T06:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:43:35","slug":"come-in-read-the-unhinged-message-shocked-employee-received-from-boss-while-attending-doctors-appointment-during-agreed-day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773721\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Come in\u2019: Read the unhinged message shocked employee received from boss while attending doctor\u2019s appointment during agreed day off"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has shared his frustration with his boss after he was summoned to work during his agreed-upon day off.<\/p>\n

The employee took to Reddit last week to explain that he had booked a full day of leave to attend a doctor’s appointment, which his manager had approved.<\/p>\n

Then, while sitting in the doctors’ waiting room, he received an unexpected text message.<\/p>\n

\"\u2018Worst<\/p>\n

“My boss approved my day off a month ago for a doctor’s appointment”, he wrote.<\/p>\n

“I am currently sitting in the waiting room and he texts me.”<\/p>\n

The blunt message read: “Can you come in later and work half a day?”<\/p>\n

The employee was livid and declared he would not be responding to his boss’s request.<\/p>\n

“Not only am I not coming in, but I’m not going to text him back. A day off means the whole day,” he declared.<\/p>\n

People flooded the comments praising the employee for the way he handled the situation, and agreeing that they wouldn’t have responded either.<\/p>\n

“I don’t reply to my phone at all. If you want to talk to me, do it when I’m at work. Beyond that, I’m not on call,” one commenter stated.<\/p>\n

Another user added: “Yeah, let the precedent be you can’t be reached on your days off, then they will stop asking.<\/p>\n

“If you reply every time, then you get the reputation of ‘not being a team player’ instead of someone who just isn’t on their phone constantly.”<\/p>\n

However, others disagreed and said it would have been “sensible” to politely respond to the boss.<\/p>\n

\"Melbourne<\/p>\n

“Boss asked nicely, a decent response is just being a normal person,” one said.<\/p>\n

“Maintain boundaries, but don\u2019t be an a******,” another person chimed in.<\/p>\n

“A text back to politely decline costs you nothing. Extending reasonable grace and being more considerate of others is a policy that will foster better relationships and future success.”<\/p>\n

A third Redditor echoed: “Responding does not ruin your day off. There is going to come a time in your life when you will need someone, even when they are off or have other obligations.<\/p>\n

“I’m sure you are going to hope they don’t handle that situation the same way you are.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a fourth suggested “waiting an hour” before answering, that way “the manager often has already phoned three other people and one probably said yes”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has shared his frustration with his boss after he was summoned to work during his agreed-upon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,3199,99,13301,35485,2579,79610,4050],"class_list":["post-773721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boss","tag-business","tag-employee","tag-manager","tag-reddit","tag-text-message","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}