Etiquette; Texting your boss on a Sunday evening saying you won’t be at work Monday

Text Monday morning prior to work start unless you are in some critical role that requires him calling in someone not scheduled. In that case, text the second you know you won’t be there.

Obviously doesn’t apply here as you would have a protocol in place.

InB4- call someone to operate the fryer in your absence.

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What’s the etiquette here? Is it acceptable to text your boss on a Sunday evening (if that’s your form of communication you use) if you won’t be at work Monday due to being sick or your kid(s) sick and has to miss school?

What do you guys do?

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I had a guy who works for me that does this. I’m in the process of putting him on a PIP for direct performance issues but the multitude of times he’s done this doesn’t buy him any grace.


Reason 1,252,357 why I’m glad my kids had a stay at home mom.

I put a guy on a PIP for calling in multiple times for various reasons like dog being sick, him being ‘sick’, needing to take dog to vet, etc. Always on a Monday.

Yea, how bout you put down the bottle and get your shite together. Calling in on a Monday esp multiple Mondays is a huge red flag.

Didn’t you steal from Academy?

Maybe the guy has kids and he has no one to watch them on mondays?

George Carlin said that you should ask your potential boss during your job interview how he felt about absenteeism on Mondays and Fridays.

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Maybe the guy has kids and he has no one to watch them on mondays?

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He’s paid a salary to be available on Monday. Even if not in a critical role, he is an employee and critical to some project or task he is working on. Calling in sick lets his team and everyone around him down.

If this is a habit (more than once), then he’d be better off finding a job he gets Mondays off. If not showing up without proper notice/planning isn’t a big deal, then maybe his role isn’t a big deal and can be eliminated.

FYI, your boss has a boss he answers too, and these are the types of questions they (me) ask that he’ll need to come up with an answer for. That’s 3-4 levels of personnel having to take time out of the day just because you’ve shown you can’t manage your own life as an adult.

It's just too easy now. Forty years ago, I had to call in and do a performance, faking a scratchy throat, congestion, etc. We earned our day off.

I used to be in management for years and you could count on at least two texts every Sunday night.
Now my wife is the same boat, totally different industry. But same thing. About 7-8pm on Sunday the phone starts dinging

When you leave/retire no one will say “oh John never took a sick day” it will mean nothing. Use as much time off as you can.