Worried mom
New Member
My son has worked for UPS for 17 months now. Good worker and has only missed a couple of days work in that time frame. On Thursday morning when loading a truck he was bit by a spider. He reported this to his boss who in return informed his boss. After the head gut looked at it he said not a spider bite just an ingrown hair. By Friday afternoon it was the size of his hand and very red you could even feel the heat in it. I told him he need to go to urgent care. He had never used his insurance before and was unsure which one to go to. So he send a couple of text out to find out. At that time he was told by one person to contact work. The manger there said do not go to urgent care wait for the head boss to contact you. After two hours of waiting at 4:59p.m. he told him to go to occumed which closed at 5:00. We were right down the road from the hospital so that is where we went. When he called him back to tell him it was closed and we came to the hospital he was a jerk. Said they had not filled a report out the day before and to make sure his note said he could return to work today even though he had already worked that day. He wanted him to leave there and go back to urgent care. At that point I grabbed the phone and said he was being seen at the hospital now. We had waited and had a run around for the last three hours we were not going any place else. Fast forward they would not give him a note to return to work until he had been seen again by a doctor which is Tuesday at 9 even though we asked for a note for the same day. He was told to come back to work on Monday at 6AM for light duty. Which was really for this head boss to yell at him for an hour. I'm not sure if I should do anything else or leave it alone. My son just turned 19 and is not one to say anything back, he is a hard worker and has two jobs. Just unsure of what to do?