Even when it’s serious, it’s just a shitty situation. I know everybody has to take care of themselves and that’s why I try not to go to work when sick but most often that’s what I’d like to do.
Like I’m a socialist and all but I hate the situation of talking to my boss and telling them I can’t come in :(
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I’m the only that can do several things where I work. This is neither my fault, as I have attempted to train so many people, nor is it my problem. If I’m sick I will not be there. If something comes up that requires my attention I will not be there. If I cop attitude and don’t feel like putting up with this place’ shit I will not be there. Maybe try hiring a second person who can tell their left from right.
Have you always thought this way? I always was 100% on leftist ideals but in my 20s it was easiest to just mostly give 100% at work. Now I am getting older and I feel like that’s no longer the case.
In nearly every job I have had I have ended up either way more in charge than I wanted to be or a lynchpin that holds more together than I am paid for, and always way too quickly. I don’t want to be there. I’m good at working, but I certainly don’t yearn for the mines and never have. Never give 100%, they’ll only want more.
It’s conditioning, and I’m not immune either. The work environment tells us that not hiring enough staff for these situations is normal so that we feel abnormal for making healthy choices. It’s important - especially if you’re still in your thirties or younger - to remind yourself that the employer created the structural problem, but allows us to blame ourselves when it manifests.
That’s the gaze. You have been trained to feel this way. Your brain has developed neural circuitry to create this feeling and you did not consciously choose for that to happen. The adults in your life, both the one’s close to you and the ones who can only reach you through media, have chosen this for you and created the conditions for your conditioning.
It takes practice to break this conditioning. But you can do it. You already know intellectually that it’s wrong. Take the next step and use that knowledge to understand what’s happening in your brain and then counter it until the circuitry changes to match the truth as you know it.
I’m self-employed and I still feel like I should call someone and let them know I’m not coming to work whenever I stay home.
They make the process as difficult as they can get away with. The discomfort is by design
You should not feel bad. When they don’t staff adequately, they should feel the consequences of that. Production should go down.
And/or you should feel even worse about the prospect of infecting colleagues if you do go to work, both because you like them, and (if that motivates you or your boss or your feeling of guilt) because the productivity loss is multiplied then.
