Has anyone on here ever had a Supervisor or coworker who took off almost 2 weeks for bereavement leave??
Unfortunately, my Supervisor lost her sister on 10/11 & has been off ever since then. She was supposed to be back in the office yesterday but I have not heard anything from her. I have had to take on ALL of her work & clients she should be assisting in addition to mine ever since she has been off and I am 1,000% drained. I found out from facebook that her sister's funeral is this weekend. I expressed my condolences to her in the meantime. However, I am VERY CLOSE to putting my 2 weeks in.
The demand for being at events & 4 hour meetings while she has made countless excuses for months 4 not attending events is absurd!! I want out ASAP!
We have over 100 clients to assist, plus occasional events & meetings to attend, in addition to another program that is running at the same time, with only 3 of us (including myself) helping. It is just overwhelming and ridiculously draining at this point. I feel like I am doing the work of 3-4 people and don't even make $60K.
We do have a big event coming up next month but I have no faith in my supervisor pulling her own weight at this point. I have no idea why I was contacted by a recruiter at a financial company I applied to to answer prescreening questions, only to get ignored by him after following up with phone calls and an email. Wth was the point of you contacting me in the first place?!!
Ive told my supervisor I felt overwhelmed and she has not reassured me that we will get any volunteers to help or anything will be done to resolve this situation. She continues to makeup excuses as to why she can't attend events and takes off whenever she feels like it. My Director continues to allow this to happen and Im not sure why.
You can't tell that something is off and isnt right with the person when they have literally being coming up with multiple excuses for months (i.e., their teeth needing to be pulled and never saying anything else about it, them locking their keys in their trunk prior to a meeting, having a "fever" before an event, making plans on the same day as a work event, "forgetting" they took PTO & that they had family in town so they could not attend the event, etc)??
She is a compulsive LIAR and MANIPULATOR at this point and Im tired of dealing with it. Ive been applying for several places at this point and will continue to apply so that I can get away from her. She is absolutely unbearable at this point!!
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Anonymous
I lost my mom on 28Nov2018 and only returned to work early Jan the following year. Fortunately I had sufficient bereavement leave and annual leave (and study leave which I had applied for prior to her death so I can complete my Masters thesis).. I had to stay home longer to finalize her estate and get my baby brother ready for university. I speak about it openly now coz I have healed from the trauma of losing a loved one (but not from the pain of losing a mother).. I say this so you can have a perspective of how much death changes your life. This is not the time to throw shade at someone carrying so much, however its an opportunity of being a team player. When one player is down, unfortunately the rest of the team (in this case YOU, has to carry the load). If you want to quit, that's on you and will show to be in bad taste (i.e., how will you show you have the capacity and maturity to deal with a difficult situation if you quit the moment it gets tough?).. Fortunately & unfortunately, we work with humans (with their full share of struggles) and not robots.
Valerie Rieger
To answer your question about anyone taking two weeks of bereavement leave - when my mother passed away out of state in 2022, I was away from work for 3 weeks. The first two weeks was spent at her bedside before she passed away and then planning her funeral service. The third week was for quarantining and recuperating for the COVID that I contracted while I was with my family. I am thankful that my employer never questioned my need for the time, but allowed me the time and space to care for my mother, my family, and myself.
I wholeheartedly agree that your mental health is important, to question the time your coworker needs to mourn is poor form.
Your concerns about the work getting done and the additional load that you're carrying should be brought to the director's attention, which it seems that you've done. If the director isn't willing or able to provide assistance or correct behaviors, it would make sense that you part ways with your employer.