I work at a small grocery store and just need to get some hurt off my chest. Let me first say my boss has been one of the greatest the past year and a half, I moved and started in a new industry and he was very accommodating and understanding but I've worked in restaurants and should have learned my boundaries between boss and workers, just because your boss is friendly does not mean he or she is your friend; which was made painfully real for me tonight.
This past few months have been very hard on me for various reasons and I have some mental illness nothing clinical… I don't think so at least; but enough where if shit gets too much I need to be on my own and take a second to sort shit out; like we all do.
I had to work closely with my boss the last couple weeks and he has repeatedly stated how seriously he takes mental health and how if someone needed to take off time for personal reasons there would be no questions asked.
I messaged him tonight to take tomorrow off with this sentiment in mind and all I got was grief about how many people already were calling in with their own problems and sickness, how my notice wasn't helpful and even mentioned himself being off early this week ( covered for him on the weekend so been working for 11 days at this point) and how that made the rest of the week behind. I got mad and argued a little we seemed to apologize to eachother (maybe shouldn't have done that but I'm not in a great state financially to leave like this). I still feel extremely hurt and more mentally distressed then I was before.
I feel like if I just called in sick it would have been less hassle and grief, which after the conversations me and my boss had over the last couple months has put my stomach in fucking knots. Im so tired dealing with people around me at this job and in this small town this last year and I thought I had someone in my corner but like usual I was wrong in thinking the best in people.
Hope edit helps but still terrible with parsing paragraphs