Have you ever NOT shown up when you were scheduled to work?

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I recently did NOT show up for work - when i was scheduled to - on accident. I looked over my schedule at least 100 times, and for sure though I was supposed to work on a Friday, but I was actually scheduled to work the night before that - a Thursday. So I got a call asking where I was and ended up coming in 4 hours late. I felt like such a moron. Has anything like that happened to any of you??

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Specializes in Cardiac, ER.

I've done that twice in ten years. One time I was actually at a family members birthday celebration when they called me (I was certain I'd asked et received off for that) and had just started on my 3rd glass of wine. Obviously I couldn't go in. I felt like a dork,.but it wasn't a habit of mine and no one got really excited about it.

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Specializes in Cath Lab, OR, CPHN/SN, ER.

Once, and we had gone out of town, so I obviously couldn't go in! I felt so bad!

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Once I went in to work on my day off by mistake.

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It's happened to me once in 18 years. I felt like an idiot.

I also showed up for work once when I was scheduled off. Everyone was really smiling at me, and looking at me like I was a nut, ha ha.

Glad to see I'm not the only one.

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i once showed up at work when i wasnt rostered to work... so i went home and could go for another round of sleep

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Yes, that happened to me about 5-6 months ago. I've been on this job 28+ years and that's the first time I've done that.

There were a couple of times I showed up when I wasn't scheduled, and they said I could stay anyway, so I did.

The day I didn't show up, they called me and luckily I hadn't gone out of town, shopping or anything, and was still close by.

I was only about 20-30 minutes late and they know me well enough to know that it wasn't intentional. I'm usually early to work....I'm always there at least 15-20 minutes early, to give myself a little extra time for delays.

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Yup!

I did that once and I was humiliated!

There I was, having a gay ol' time... get home and get THE MESSAGE on my phone.

Boy, did I feel stupid... go into work and everyone has a little smile and smart (not mean) comment.

Thank God, I had a good rep as an employee!!

Never did that before. Never did it since!

Just laugh it off. Chances are everyone's done it at least once!;)

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I talked with a few of my fellow nurses and they said they did the exact same things and laughed it off. My manager, however, probably will not laugh it off as they were short handed to begin with and had to hire registry to cover for me and the people that called of sick - whoops!

anyway, to make good, i left my manager a note that said i would be happy to pick up an extra shift if she needed the extra help down the road.

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Specializes in tele, oncology.

anyway, to make good, i left my manager a note that said i would be happy to pick up an extra shift if she needed the extra help down the road.

good move...shows you realize you made a mistake and are offering it to rectify it in the only way you can.

i did this one time in my life (and i've been working since i was 15 1/2). i was mortified, and ended up working the next day when i had been scheduled off to make up for it. luckily, having the reputation of being dependable helped a lot.

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I was approved for a personal day and the staffing office put me on the schedule anyway so I was put down as a no call no show.

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In my former worklife I did that once. Our schedules were hard to read when we changed from one shift to another. We had rotating shifts. I misread the schedule. When I came in the next night, I was told that they got along ok without me. I was the shift leader. I was glad that everything went ok, but a little concerned that nobody thought they should call me.

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