I am a pre-med student with a “crappy” FT job (Other ppl call in constantly, leaving me stuck with unwanted OT). And I’m known for working hard and being honest. My husband and I recently decided to have a baby, and I’m now about 7 weeks pregnant. I’ve had unrelenting morning sickness since the beginning, and worked through it all. People still call me asking if I can cover a shift! I’ve also had to refuse to pick up heavy things, along with a few other forced respect situations I’ve attained.
So this morning before work, I accidentally cut a chunk out of my hand with a pair of scissors (It was awful). It wouldn’t stop bleeding, and was excruciating. So my first thought was that everyone will understand I couldn’t work that day, because my job consisted of typing on a keyboard and 10-key all day. I mean, I didn’t even feel sick that day, I wanted to go until I almost cut my whole finger off.
But then I realized, no, they won’t care, they’re just gonna act like a bunch of 8itches anyway. They don’t care if I’m contemplating going to the ER for stitches.
So I decided, you know what? I’m sick of this, I’m gonna tell them I can’t come in because my morning sickness was worse than ever. Everyone can kiss my booty. We have people that send text messages to our boss to call in, I mean really?!
So I let my heart quit racing for one moment, made the call, and asked for the top boss (because I respect her more than the ones that call everyone else but her ;P )
And good thing——she already left!
So I told the 2nd boss (the non-firing one) that I hadn’t ate in 2 days because of vomiting, and that if it didn’t stop tonight that I would got to the doctor to get help, but I just WOULD not (not could not) come in today. And what do you know…she had that pissy attitude in her voice with the passive aggressive tone, “Okay, Seeee ya later.”
Because she works friday through monday, and called in on saturday AND sunday last week!
Hate on ladies. I’m taking a mental health day And letting my sliced hand heal.