Hi dear HR's,
I am in a situation currently. Because of my health problems, I took leave from company 1 month ago w/o telling anyone[There was no intention of leaving this organization]. There was a serious issue with my manager that he was doing discrimination against me. I was in depression and frustration because of his behavior. My health condition was drastically affected. Then I became victim to typhoid and because of it I was on bed for 20 days. Now I am fully recovered and want to join company back. but HR told me it can not happen as you are declared as absconder. He told me that we tried to reach me on my cellphone but he couldn't reach as my other cellphone number was active at that time [Because of roaming other phone was as good as switched off]. Please tell me how should I deal with this.
He is asking me to pay the notice period amount so that he can relieve me. But I don't want to leave this company. I want to join back. I know I made a mistake by not contacting them but I was not positive about anyone in the company at that time.
Thanks,
A tense fellow
From India, Pune
I am in a situation currently. Because of my health problems, I took leave from company 1 month ago w/o telling anyone[There was no intention of leaving this organization]. There was a serious issue with my manager that he was doing discrimination against me. I was in depression and frustration because of his behavior. My health condition was drastically affected. Then I became victim to typhoid and because of it I was on bed for 20 days. Now I am fully recovered and want to join company back. but HR told me it can not happen as you are declared as absconder. He told me that we tried to reach me on my cellphone but he couldn't reach as my other cellphone number was active at that time [Because of roaming other phone was as good as switched off]. Please tell me how should I deal with this.
He is asking me to pay the notice period amount so that he can relieve me. But I don't want to leave this company. I want to join back. I know I made a mistake by not contacting them but I was not positive about anyone in the company at that time.
Thanks,
A tense fellow
From India, Pune
Dear Fellow (?!),
You can find the answers in your own narration above. Can you really realize that you started messing it up?
First thing should come first .... it never appeared from your points that you are an open communicator, rather you defend than being proactive. You could have saved yourself by following these simple ethics:
- You never approached your boss for a discussion. If you were humiliated by him and didnt want to face him, have u approached a skip level?
- It really doesn't reflect that you've informed your immediate superiors the reasons of your absence.
- "the other number" was communicated to approprite people who deserves to know?
- Your last line of the narration summarises the complete situation ... so, no wonder to point out - whose fault it was?!
I don't think you should blame your respective reporting person for your health conditions. Every company listens to their employees but you must be presentable enough. What I could understand from the above explaination is Your performance spoke towards this whole situation.
Please understand, Company/Business doesn't run based on assumptions or sentiments. It needs practical approach and strategy so that your managers can think of alternatives or replacements. Sudden absenteesm effects so much planning and needs re-visits to the planning and strategy. This is a bit complicated to explain as it depends based on your role and business.
Finally, as per law, your employer has full right to demand one month notice pay from you to relieve you from the company. However, you may foresee an exception in case you have all supporting medical reports.
One question that still remains: what's guarantee that you can go along with the same manager, if he caused you mental trauma?!
From United Arab Emirates, Dubai
24You can find the answers in your own narration above. Can you really realize that you started messing it up?
First thing should come first .... it never appeared from your points that you are an open communicator, rather you defend than being proactive. You could have saved yourself by following these simple ethics:
- You never approached your boss for a discussion. If you were humiliated by him and didnt want to face him, have u approached a skip level?
- It really doesn't reflect that you've informed your immediate superiors the reasons of your absence.
- "the other number" was communicated to approprite people who deserves to know?
- Your last line of the narration summarises the complete situation ... so, no wonder to point out - whose fault it was?!
I don't think you should blame your respective reporting person for your health conditions. Every company listens to their employees but you must be presentable enough. What I could understand from the above explaination is Your performance spoke towards this whole situation.
Please understand, Company/Business doesn't run based on assumptions or sentiments. It needs practical approach and strategy so that your managers can think of alternatives or replacements. Sudden absenteesm effects so much planning and needs re-visits to the planning and strategy. This is a bit complicated to explain as it depends based on your role and business.
Finally, as per law, your employer has full right to demand one month notice pay from you to relieve you from the company. However, you may foresee an exception in case you have all supporting medical reports.
One question that still remains: what's guarantee that you can go along with the same manager, if he caused you mental trauma?!
From United Arab Emirates, Dubai
Thank you sir for your reply.
I have all the medical docs required and I am ready to give it to my company. But what if they have already transferred me to bench, so he is not my manager any longer now. Well I had good performance initially and I know it was the same manager who presented me with an opportunity to get my skills to use, but after gaining new project he started making sudden decisions, even QA team was under fire everyday for 1 or 2 hours.
About re-planning: I was forced to do same work for 2 weeks because of their so called optimization and daily changing requirements from client w/o increasing the target time to that work. Then he kept sending me disappointment mails. At that point I really suspected his managing capability.
That project was a small duration project but its actual required hours were far greater than duration estimated. I just want to ask if I can gain my place in my company again? Please tell me the procedure to do it.
Thanks
From India, Pune
I have all the medical docs required and I am ready to give it to my company. But what if they have already transferred me to bench, so he is not my manager any longer now. Well I had good performance initially and I know it was the same manager who presented me with an opportunity to get my skills to use, but after gaining new project he started making sudden decisions, even QA team was under fire everyday for 1 or 2 hours.
About re-planning: I was forced to do same work for 2 weeks because of their so called optimization and daily changing requirements from client w/o increasing the target time to that work. Then he kept sending me disappointment mails. At that point I really suspected his managing capability.
That project was a small duration project but its actual required hours were far greater than duration estimated. I just want to ask if I can gain my place in my company again? Please tell me the procedure to do it.
Thanks
From India, Pune
There is no standard approach defined for such situations. It depends on your influence with your management and their re-consideration of your case subjective to their internal approvals.
If the management has the same opinion from every corner, it's hard to go back to gain the same opportunity.
Only one thing that you should do to approach the correct person, whom you think can pull you out of this situation.
But, honestly .... fellow, your reasons are not convinceable.
I can understand your current mental balance, however would suggest you to look for another opportunity and make a fresh start and beat the respect that you've ever done.
Good Luck!
From United Arab Emirates, Dubai
If the management has the same opinion from every corner, it's hard to go back to gain the same opportunity.
Only one thing that you should do to approach the correct person, whom you think can pull you out of this situation.
But, honestly .... fellow, your reasons are not convinceable.
I can understand your current mental balance, however would suggest you to look for another opportunity and make a fresh start and beat the respect that you've ever done.
Good Luck!
From United Arab Emirates, Dubai
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