After being constantly overworked and understaffed and stressed for a whole month, I decided to take a mental health day and tried to call in under the excuse that I was on the can all night.
I was yelled at and told I wasn’t allowed to call in. So, I was gonna begrudgingly go in until one of my coworker friends texted me that they were quitting as they couldn’t do it anymore. So, I said screw it I wasn’t going in.
So, after he posted in the group chat that he was quitting, I posted that I wasn’t coming in that day, the stress was too great. My boss called me, yelled at me for “texting like I thought I was the boss” and when I told her that this job was making my mental health tank so bad that I wanted to unalive myself, she said that “If I didn’t like it, I could go back to [previous workplace].”
I told this woman point blank that I was sicidal and she straight up told me to quit.
So I did, and so did another.
So now, I sit here watching from the sidelines with sadistic glee as they scramble after losing 3 employees in one day.
You owe nothing to a boss that mistreats and abuses you. Know your rights and take care of your physical and mental health above all else.