Alright guys so I know pretty much half of you will have no idea to this question but most of the things I've asked here have gotten pretty knowledgeable replies.
So today I get a text from one of my close friends and coworkers. She said she had been crying because two of our employers called her on speakerphone to scold and belittle her. The employers were angry about something that happened 3 days prior on Sunday. A bit into backstory, my coworker is a part time employee and goes to school full time for nursing. She is noticeably under large amounts of stress due to schoolwork and because of this she is only able to work Sundays, which our manager has been fine with for months. Occasionally she will request a Sunday off to further catch up on school work.
She had attempted to request off this Sunday, Oct 4th but upon working 3 days ago saw our manager had posted her request off publicly on a board saying "due to an upcoming event no RO will be honored. Our employer posted this last minute so my coworker was noticeably upset. She was very angry Sunday talking loudly to me about how it was unfair and that she wasn't even part of the event and that she was stressed because of school work. Apparently the current on duty manager "Pete" had overheard her and told our manager who makes the schedules about it. In the meantime, my coworker emailed another manager asking if she can find coverage for sunday and that manager, Kathy, agreed.
So back to today. Pete and our schedule manager both call my coworker on her day off on speakerphone and from what I'm told begin scolding her about this event that happened 3 days ago. Most of the phonecall was our scheduling manager yelling about how my coworker was "Talking stuff" on her. She mentioned my coworker going to Kathy once but it obviously wasn't the point of the phonecall. They disguised the legitimacy of the call by claiming my coworker was "bringing down moral." However I was the only one she vented to that day, and I had not made any complaints. Our scheduling manager was making comments saying how she was going to email Kathy for the sole purpose of having her not find my coworker coverage. They kept her on the phone for 10 minutes scolding her for nothing more then venting her frustrations privately to a friend. My coworker remained professional and attempted to apologize multiple times however "they kept digging like they wanted to get a rise out of me. But I could only take so much until I started to cry." My coworker then sent this manager another apology, to which the manager did not reply.
I personally don't know much about what is allowed for employers to do so I'm curious if any of you do. So forums, are employers actually allowed to call you on your day off and scold you for 10 minutes over something that happened days ago. It seems very unprofessional for an employer to go to these lengths about an employee talking about them. Is there anything my coworker can do about this?
