I have experienced something similar
At the time i was working as a barman in the comedy store

every thursday i would earn a extra shift by going in mid day and cleaning the dishwashers/ polishing the mirrors on both bars ect... (you get the point)

Anyway my father had just got out of hospital a week or so before. and had run out of medication, he was not feeling too well (try having your ribcage cracked open and veins taken out of both legs for a tripple bypass) so i offered to pick up said medication from the royal free hospital.

4 fucking hours i took for them to fill his prescription.

in this time i phoned work about 6 or eight times (left at least three messages) and finaly got hold of someone, explained the situation, and said as it would be no use me coming in this late i would do my cleaning shift on the friday afternoon

turned up at work friday afternoon and everything is locked up till normal opening time (5ish

anyway i was VERY early for work when wendy (the bar manager) turns up. she was absolutely fine with me

restock my bar, get my till and prepare for a useual nights work

Enter Don Ward the cunt (err owner)

"you were not in yesterday" says he

"sorry don, my dad has just had a triple bypass and i had to pick up some medication for him. it took longer that i had supposed it would, i am willing to make up the time" says I

"I do not care if your dad is dead. you are on the rota and i expect you to be here" says he

i will save myself a lot of typing and you guys reading lots of sweary stuff, suffice to say i told that cnut what he could do with his job.

17 year later and i am still barred, guess i told him good huh? (well it has been about 4 years since i tried to get in but, artistic licence?)

moral of the story?.... family always comes first

oh and within a month i was earning twice the cash for about half the hours :)

oh by the way Don in the unlikely event you are reading this, everything i said about your wife is true:D
(Patfish, Wed 28 May 2008, 9:24, Reply)