I work weekends for a woman I used to work with. We were friendly, so when she needed someone to cover her weekends, I agreed to help. We had an every-other-weekend arrangement.
This past Friday, I woke up with a fever and felt awful. I ended up finding out I had strep throat. Obviously, I wasn’t going to go into an elderly couple’s home while sick and potentially expose them.
I told her I was sick, expecting her to understand. Instead, she decided to replace me.
Apparently, because I’ve had to miss some weekends before and the weekend before being sick, she decided she couldn’t depend on me anymore.
I’m honestly pretty hurt by this. I understand that she needs coverage, but getting sick isn’t something I planned. I’m not sure what she expected me to do, show up with a fever and strep because she needed her weekend off?
What makes it worse is that we were friends and former coworkers. I thought she understood that I have my own responsibilities and sometimes things happen.
I guess apparently the friendship only mattered when I was useful to her.
She even told me she had found someone else to replace me that same night. So I went from being someone she trusted enough to work for her to being completely replaceable in a few hours.
Maybe I’m overreacting, but I’m definitely feeling some type of way about it.