A boss has gone viral for the wild text messages they sent a worker who had just broken their leg. The exchange has sparked conversation online, with others saying similar things had happened in their workplace.

UK workplace expert Ben Askins is known for sharing anonymous text messages submitted by workers calling out their bosses' bad behaviour. He recently shared an exchange between a boss and an employee who broke his leg coming off his bike and was in the hospital.

The boss messaged the worker after finding out they weren’t able to do their shift the next day. He said he was “sorry” to hear about the situation he was in, but immediately asked when he would be back at work.

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“Not sure yet, doctor’s said definitely need to be in bed for a few days and then they will measure me for crutches,” the worker replied.

“Ideally I need you in for the Friday shift, do you think you will make it? I can get you a chair,” the boss responded with.

The worker then responded, saying “no worries” if the doctor says it is “all good”, to which the boss replies that doctors are “always overly cautious” and he needs him to “commit to it”.

"Like I said, if the doctor is happy I will do it, but if they say no then I can't," the worker replied.

“Come on, I am doing what I can to help you here. It isn’t a great look being off work already when you only started two weeks ago,” the boss texted.

Fed up, the worker responded with: “Then let me make it even easier for you, I quit.”

Askins immediately blasted the boss and pointed out that the employer was being “reasonable” in saying that he would work if he got the medical sign-off.

He said the boss was "absolutely not" doing all they could to help the worker by simply offering him a chair.

He said it shouldn’t matter that he only started in the job a few weeks ago.

“He’s broken his leg. He’s not done it on purpose. He’s not gone, ‘That Friday shift is looking a bit rough to me, I’m going to come off my bike and break my leg,'” he said.

Askins said it was “fair enough” that the work quit over the text.

“What this boss is playing at, I have absolutely no idea,” he said.

'Wild': Workers weigh in

Online, people sided with the worker.

“Do they think the bone is going to heal faster because the employee’s only been there two weeks?” one said.