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my boss sent me a text scolding me about not showing up for work 2 minutes after my mom texted me that my aunt is being taken off life support today.

for context, my aunt (who i grew up in the same household as up until college and helped raise me) has been in the hospital for almost 40 days fighting for her life after her a whole was punctured in her lung during a surgery she was having. yesterday we were informed that she developed a pneumonia that is caused by being on a ventilator too long, and that this pneumonia has a low chance of survival. i told my boss as soon as i got this news, as we were expecting the worst and i told her that i needed to be with my family at this time. she said her condolences and told me to keep her updated on when i could return to work. this afternoon my aunt’s organs began failing and she is being pulled from life support. my boss texts me and says that she…


for context, my aunt (who i grew up in the same household as up until college and helped raise me) has been in the hospital for almost 40 days fighting for her life after her a whole was punctured in her lung during a surgery she was having. yesterday we were informed that she developed a pneumonia that is caused by being on a ventilator too long, and that this pneumonia has a low chance of survival. i told my boss as soon as i got this news, as we were expecting the worst and i told her that i needed to be with my family at this time. she said her condolences and told me to keep her updated on when i could return to work. this afternoon my aunt’s organs began failing and she is being pulled from life support. my boss texts me and says that she knows this is a difficult time for my family but since it’s an hour past my shift and i am not there, she’s going to assume i’m not coming in and that i need to notify her in the future. i guess i just assumed that me telling her what was going on yesterday would signify me not coming in for work today and giving her a play by play on when i could continue being overworked but underpaid was not my priority, but i forgot that i’m not a human but a cog in capitalism’s machine.

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