Keeping reasons for surgery from supervisor/co-workers

[singand_dance 8]

I feel lucky, I've been having gallbladder attacks for the past year so I'm having my gallbladder out at the same time I get sleeved! No lies to anyone... except by omission. But when I say I'm having my gallbladder out, it's the truth!

[SleeveGirl-TX 183]

I own a service business, so I have 50 or so bosses, plus the people that work for me. I told a few of my staff, but I told all the customers that I was having a personal surgery, it wasn't a huge deal, that I was fine and I would be out for two weeks. One said "I hope whatever it is, you're doing okay", but that seemed to drive the point that I didn't want to talk about it. LOL. I'm sure most of them thing it's a hysterectomy or something. Whatever, it's not that I don't want to tell people, I just don't want to hear the crap.

Legally, yes, you aren't required to tell your employer. Depending on how big your office is, it's hard to hide it after, I would think, but do whatever you feel comfortable. I wouldn't get all bitchy about it and say "you can't ask me because of HIPPA violations" or anything. I would just state it was of a personal nature and you'd really rather not talk about it, that you were going to be fine, just need to take care of something. And leave it like that. If they push it, that's one thing.

If you work in a big firm or something, the boss already knows they cannot ask, more than likely