Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You go home.
You've made a valiant effort to work, despite the fact that you feel like a truck ran over you. When your supervisor suggests that you go home, you think maybe she's right. Given the mistakes you've made already, it might be safer for you to go home and sleep through this illness and come back fresh tomorrow.
So you go home. Fortunately, when the alarm goes off the next morning, you find you feel much, much better.
You go back to work, worried about the effect leaving early the day before might have on the promotion that you're trying to get. Your supervisor is glad to see you back at work. She's genuinely happy to see you're feeling better.
Later in the day, she calls you into her office for a conference. You're sure the conference has to do with the promotion. And all the way into her office, you worry that you blew it by going home early yesterday.
You're surprised, though, when she reads you the riot act for even coming into work at all yesterday. It was irresponsible, she says, and you're lucky that you had the common sense to double-check all of your work, given how poorly you were feeling.
Then she proceeds to congratulate you on your new position as director of the medical records department. However, she warns that if you ever come to work sick again, she'll take the promotion away. The smile that follows you out the door is a pretty good indicator that she's just giving you a hard time.
"You must be extreme about details," says Jolene Hoeschen. She is a medical records technician. "You have to be very thorough and organized, and if you're a broad overview type of person, you shouldn't be in medical records."