Just spent barely 3 days off work with my girlfriends family for the weekend & Southwest had canceled my flight so I had to drive 9 hours back home.
I barely take time off work and this one time only that I asked for extra day because I’m driving back instead of flying.
After asking if it was okay if I miss today, she states that it would counted as an ‘occurrence’ which is like a warning, but it basically discourages employees from taking sick days. This made me feel guilty for missing work.
I am so sick of this bullshit penalizing system. I had no control that my flight would be canceled nor did I want to drive 9hrs back also stuck in traffic and work the very next day. I’m so tired of being penalized things outside of my control.
Fuck this I’m taking a self care day