I’m 25f married with no kids. Today, my coworkers were talking about taking days off and what not. One of them is taking a day off for their daughter’s dentist appointment. Then my other coworker proudly said “yeah I don’t take time off. I didn’t even take any time off during my first year of working here.” This woman is already in her 50s and her kids are all grown up: She follows up with “yeah if you got kids definitely take all the time off you need.” And lowkey threw comments that single or childless coworkers shouldn’t constantly take time off to be considerate of the coworkers with children.
How can you proudly be flaunting you don’t ever take time off? Then insist those with kids deserve the right to always get time off? Just because someone doesn’t have kids don’t meant they don’t got things going on in their personal life. Like take time off if you have it. There’s a reason we have it. Nobody will congratulate you for not taking time off. Your employer doesn’t care.
I frankly don’t care if Susie’s daughter has an appt if I have personal things going on too. Especially if I submit my time off in advance.
There are 4 people in my department and one time everyone was out except me. I had to cover for everyone out. My manager asked me what can be done to help me while I was alone. Part of our job is taking client calls. I suggested help from a coworker in another department and she completely ignored me and only sent an email saying “wow thank you (my name) for being a great team player!” Huge slap on the face on this one. Learned that yeah your employer doesn’t care about you.
Our department can live with 1 person there if necessary or even none. Our other department have had times where nobody could come in for X reason.
Are people just brainwashed that hard work will get you somewhere? Take the time off. Being a workaholic showing up everyday isn’t going to serve you good. We have a set schedule so no overtime.