For context I (F21) work on a train. It’s very strenuous work and poses serious health hazards that go on unnoticed. We work full 8-hour-long shifts and don’t get our legal break because we “just don’t have time in the day.”
I got the flu five days ago pretty bad and it triggered a severe asthma inflammation (couldn’t sleep or breathe for a few days). As a result, I took 3 days off of work with a doctor’s note, plus I’ve had two more days off that I wasn’t rostered on for anyways, so five days in a row all up.
We’re incredibly understaffed and my supervisor is seriously tyrannical. They always threaten to take away our housing (staff accomodation) and make us feel bad for calling in sick or even requesting days off.
Well, I’m supposed to go back for what will be a very intense shift tomorrow, but I still feel ill. I can’t hear out of my right ear at all, can’t stop coughing, am fatigued, and have a runny nose.
I want to stay in for at least tomorrow and possibly the day after that, but that’ll mean of course calling in sick again. I can get a doctor’s note easy, but my workplace is just so corrupt and manipulative that it stresses me out to call in sick, which in turn is making me feel worse.
I plan on leaving the company within the next couple months but it’s a tedious process of relocating.
Should I just suck it up and go in tomorrow? Or should I call in sick again and go to the doctor’s?