And Millennial bosses too

But keep these Gen Z bosses away from me

I recently came to the realization that I could take sick days.

Now I have always been one who believes that an understaffed workforce isn’t my problem and that PTO stands for prepare-the-others.

Unfortunately it took my sister reading me for filth to realize that I was killing myself for a job that would “witness me” and celebrate like the war boys of Valhalla if I did. (I recently watched Mad Max: Fury Road if you can’t tell lol)

Miraculously when I told myself that I would call out, I slept like a baby. My swelling went down and my chronic headache went away to the point where I actually felt healthy enough to come to work the next day.

This made me realize how, not only insane this work culture is, but also how damaging it had become.

I have a week of PTO saved up and didn’t even consider that I could use it without being severely shamed for it.

My coworker came in the other day coughing like he had bronchitis and proceeded to spend the day out in the field climbing a tower and doing inspections. When he came back inside, he remarked that he felt like he almost died and his newly promoted 25 yr old boss responded with “that’s that grind-set mindset.”

When I came in with a medical boot on, several people accused me of faking it and a few even complained about how unfair it was that I didn’t have to climb towers because of my BROKEN ankle.

I was killing myself for a job that would “witness me” and celebrate like the war boys of Valhalla if I did

-Fi

Any other generation of bosses would’ve asked me why I even came in but for some reason this generation has had their minds so warped by capitalism that they think no pain no gain is the way to live life. They call it the “Grind-set Mind-set” and I would like to be the first to say FUCK THAT.

To be told I am strong, resilient, or even ambitious has become such an insult.

My greatest strength has been to keep my heart soft when the world keeps trying to make it hard.

I am not trying to be resilient, I just have too much to live for.

And my only ambition is to be happy.

So with all of those beliefs that I hold so near and dear, I am left wondering why I am here… in the middle of bum fuck no where… being bullied for not killing myself.