He has the sensitivity and compassion of a rock.

He often doesn’t seem to follow up or remember conversations we’ve had. My coworker makes his excuses for him all the time when I complain about this…”He&rsq uo;s busy.” It just tells me he needs to learn how to manage his time better or get some more resources. Or he doesn’t care about me as an employee.

Yesterday, I emailed him my schedule for the week. I had an appointment today, and I am taking tomorrow off to catch up on dad stuff. (Oh, had I mentioned he asked me to fill out a vacation request form for the Monday I missed last week?) I told him I had to leave at 10 today for my appointment, but at our meeting this morning – since I had my coat and purse with me – he asked, “oh, are you going somewhere?” Yes, loser. Since our meetings never start or end on time, I needed to have my stuff with me in order to not be late.

And then during the team meeting, he asked me, “so when are you going on vacation again?” I said, “I wouldn’t call it vacation…” But seriously…did he have to say it like that? And discuss this in front of the whole team? And why did it even need to be discussed when he had an email with all these details, a soft copy of the request form, and he had signed off on my leave!?

A friend of mine is worried that my company would just tell me not to come back starting the next day after I gave my two weeks’ notice. I have no problem with them, but legally, they would still have to pay me for those two weeks, right??

However, I highly doubt my company would tell me to not bother coming in when they would want to wring me dry for all the time I had left.

Seriously, I know it’s my job to keep doing my job, but can my company not cut me any slack? The last thing I should be worried about right now is how much vacation time I can use to tend to my father’s death. My friend’s mom told me to just quit and go on Employment Insurance if my work was being such a jackass.