Is your boss your daddy? Your mommy? Your guardian? Are you 9? Then why do they get to dictate where you can/can’t go, and when?
Be a fucking adult and stick up for yourself and handle your business. Maybe if you had a spine you wouldn’t be crying about work in the first place.
The type of people who wouldn’t simply leave work to go see their loved one during an emergency or a death are the exact type of docile, sheeplike, simple folk who frequent r/antiwork
The only job that you’d get fired from for doing this are entry-level positions, which are a fucking dime a dozen. And, if you are higher up and you don’t have a leader who can accommodate this type of occurrence, then you don’t want that job anyway.
Could things be better for us all? Yes. Is bitching and moaning on Reddit gonna make anything better? No.
To everyone reading this: go fuck yourself, then go get a fucking job you whiny, sophomoric soylets.
To everyone I broke through to: take pride in your work ethic. It will pay dividends the likes of which you cannot imagine in all aspects of life.