Antiwork

So I work in a certain national medical company focusing on things like radiology and scanning patients. Recently, my workplace decided to outsource the entire IT department in order to cut costs. This happened a week after promising everyone substantial raises to “keep up with inflation”. The glee and joy I experienced when they saw the aftermath of their little stunt still gives me butterflies. So within the first 2 weeks the team of over 15 was down to 3 people: the other 2 already have interviews for other jobs – me? I already scored a new job. Now they are stuck with nobody having the knowledge or time for training the new company. The remaining employees checked out and barely do any work, favoring instead preparing for their new positions and burning vacation/sick time. The VP today held a meeting to complain about it where I gave my 2…

I went in this morning, bracing myself for the worst case scenario. A little background about this trip, my dad died last year from COVID. This trip to Spain wasn't something I can 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅 as some of you have so 'politely' brought up. My sister is in school in Madrid and I'm going woth my Mom so that we can have a family outting. My father took me and my sister to many places, even though he couldn't walk or enjoy them himself he thought it was important. I don't have many experiences like that with my mom, so this is truly a once in a lifetime trip. There is no rescheduling. I am going to Madrid. My boss forgot that this was my destination and immediately was like, 'oh shit'. So yeah, as of right now I'm going to Madrid, and we're going to be short stagged for…