I couldn’t work Friday because I was sick, but I’m totally out of PTO for the year and like almost every company, sick-leave and PTO are wrapped together in one package. So I have to go to work right now on a Sunday night and catch up with work I couldn’t complete on Friday. Still sick, but if I don’t maintain this job, I won’t have health insurance among many other things.
It feels like having a literal lifeline attached to my job, I can’t have a bad week, I can’t have a break, I can’t escape. I have to do this dance for decades to go, and according to every calculation I’ve done, unless I win the lottery I am not going to retire. Lost too much earlier in life.
I’m going to be slogging through moving around little numbers on a screen until I die, feeling my years just tick by.
I’m sorry you have to go through that dude and honestly after reading this it makes me think I have no right to complain, it’s all relative though so I’ll still complain.
I can’t believe how bad y’all have it over there. I’m hesitant to point out how much better my situation is in the UK as that would be cruel af. But if you’re curious I can highlight the differences between the USA and UK as we have it so much better than this.
Not the person you replied to, but I’d be curious to know. Especially about time off work, healthcare, and cost of living.
I could write a book about those things, but I’ll just say this. I get 5 sick days a year (used to be 3) and it’s hard to take them when there’s a lot of work, which is almost always. The rent on my last apartment almost doubled in 10 years, and the current one is on track to do the same.
That I have to go to work. Love my job hate the idea of doing it for so long.
Feeling that right now.
I couldn’t work Friday because I was sick, but I’m totally out of PTO for the year and like almost every company, sick-leave and PTO are wrapped together in one package. So I have to go to work right now on a Sunday night and catch up with work I couldn’t complete on Friday. Still sick, but if I don’t maintain this job, I won’t have health insurance among many other things.
It feels like having a literal lifeline attached to my job, I can’t have a bad week, I can’t have a break, I can’t escape. I have to do this dance for decades to go, and according to every calculation I’ve done, unless I win the lottery I am not going to retire. Lost too much earlier in life.
I’m going to be slogging through moving around little numbers on a screen until I die, feeling my years just tick by.
I’m sorry you have to go through that dude and honestly after reading this it makes me think I have no right to complain, it’s all relative though so I’ll still complain.
I can’t believe how bad y’all have it over there. I’m hesitant to point out how much better my situation is in the UK as that would be cruel af. But if you’re curious I can highlight the differences between the USA and UK as we have it so much better than this.
Not the person you replied to, but I’d be curious to know. Especially about time off work, healthcare, and cost of living.
I could write a book about those things, but I’ll just say this. I get 5 sick days a year (used to be 3) and it’s hard to take them when there’s a lot of work, which is almost always. The rent on my last apartment almost doubled in 10 years, and the current one is on track to do the same.