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How Long Should I Wait for a Reply?
Last week I e-mailed my boss and explained to him the situation I am in. DD#2 has been diagnosed with moderate to severe hearing loss in her left ear. We are now faced with lots of doctors appointments. We are seeing an ENT specialist. We also have to see a plastic surgeon about removing a skin tag she has on her ear and face. We are facing at least monthly if not weekly appointments at a hearing clinic and more in depth hearing screens, fitting for hearing aids, and other therapies such as speech therapy and occupational therapy if need be. They have also made mention of seeing a genetics person to rule out any specific syndromes that she may have.
I explained everything to him in depth and asked if it would be possible to reduce my hours by 4 hours a week, I usually work 3- 12 hour shifts, I asked to be reduced to 2-12 hour shifts and 1- 8 hour shift. I am also a part of a sexual assault response team at my job that requires 24 hours a week of on call. I told him that if I am unable to reduce my hours, then I will have to step down from the team. With the way that DH and my own work schedules are, we only have 1 day a week off together and I'm anticipating that that day will be dedicated to doctors appointments and therapies for LO. The hearing clinic that we have to go to is only in on Monday and Thursday mornings and we can't do Monday mornings because DH works Sunday nights and so Thursdays will probably be the days for all of our appointments. I will try to work Mon-Wed afternoons/evenings and then 1 or 2 weekends a month.
My question is that I still haven't heard back from him and its been over a week. I try to call him and get his voice mail. I left a message on Friday and still no call back. I have found that email is usually the best way to get ahold of him in the past. I know that he is currently the interim manager of 2 other departments so he probably gets alot of calls and e-mails from his staff members. How long should I wait to bug him again about what the plan will be for when I return?
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Re: How Long Should I Wait for a Reply?
I would give him one week from the date of the initial email to respond back to you in writing. If he does not respond, then I would resend the initial email with a new comment at the top that you were just following up on it and mark it as important and then if you don't hear back after 2 days of that, then call him again and get someone to hunt him down in that call so you can actually speak to him and not just get his voicemail.
Good luck
Did you specifically ask him for a response? Do you have an HR department you can speak to?
The one thing I'd caution you on is over planning for now. It sounds like you're pretty early on in the process of finding out so there will be a ramp up period, but it might not be as bad as you expect. DH and I split a lot of DS's appointments because otherwise we'd just miss too much work. We both try go to the super important ones, but most of the time it's just one of us. He gets PT and OT through EI and does a private PT session weekly and we both try to go to the occasional session, but EI comes to you and so it's not such a big deal if we're not there. One of his therapists is really good at providing notes, the others aren't, but we'll check in with them every now and then if needed or I'll send an email with our concerns/progress notes and make sure the nanny passes them on in person. We'll also have the nanny video tape parts of the occasional session so we can see what he's doing with the therapists. Good luck with your DD.
To pp-Yes I did ask for a response. I told him that he could e-mail me or call, I haven't heard back either way. I know that I may be jumping the gun, but regardless, someone has to be at our house to watch DD. We do not do daycare and DH's family lives in Florida, my family lives 2.5 hours away so if we do need to do therapies weekly, someone will have to be with LO and someone will need to take care of DD#1 while all this is going on, so both of us will need to be around on that specific day. We have debated on whether or not to either send DD to daycare on these days, but it is hard to find a place that will take part-time kids. We have also thought about paying someone to come to our house to watch her, but the one girl that we have had in the past that I trust lives an hour away and it wouldn't be worth her drive to come and babysit.
Progress notes sound like a good idea if I'm not able to be there. Thanks for the suggestions!