Having a job where you’re responsible for dealing with a cover gives me the work ick.
Bro, I’m sick. Take the L and live without me, nothing is my problem today. I can’t live on pins and needles about going in when I’m dying just because I can’t find a replacement. Or being terrified that my day off might belong to someone else who needs cover.
That’s just a hostile workplace imo. The instant I feel like shit I instantly don’t gaf at all. Just calling to say I won’t be there is already annoying and work-like enough.
Granted I’ve only had jobs where I was a replaceable cog (well, mostly replaceable-made myself pretty knowledgeable) so it wasn’t like I had individual-specific responsibilities and clients that would be put out or anything.
But work life balance kinda depends on not having to only get sick when someone else feels like voluntarily covering. That shit is oppressive af in my eyes.
Godnroc@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I literally quit over that kind of thing, on top of a bunch of other issues.
Got really sick on a Tuesday, but I had my laptop and was able to push myself and work half the day before passing out and sleeping 18 of the next 24 hours. I had let my boss and coworkers know I would be trying to work, but was sick and may not be able to do much. Because I slept so long, I was not awake prior to my start time the next day. I was then berated during a meeting with my boss a month later because I didn’t let them know I was going to be sick for a second day.
What the fuck am I suppose to do, set an alarm to ensure I wake up in the morning to send a “Hey, still fucking sick.” message? If the last thing you hear from me is that I’m sick, chances that it will be true the next day and that is an easy assumption to work off of. Perhaps having no backup to my position, which I had been pushing for since the interview for the job, was a shit plan!
I handed in my resignation the next day; that kind of de-humanizing outlook on employees is not worth the pay.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 days ago
A MONTH later. I’m willing to bet it didn’t even impact anything, and boss wouldn’t even have remembered it happened at all if they didn’t scribble it down in their little black book.
I had a boss like this too. Would never just talk to me about any concerns, they would act like everything is fine and then bring up a laundry list of petty complaints they’ve logged over like 4 months.
All it proved was they spent more time side-eyeing my work and spying on me than doing their actual job. When they weren’t wandering off to the other side of the building chatting up other management about nothing, for hours on end, while I handled their job too, alone every day, of course.
Not all people are bad. But the intersection between stupid and evil tends to converge in management.