Antiwork

I've worked at funeral directors for 6 years. 6 years of my life going on call all for weeks on end. Any time day or night to pick up deceased people of all shapes in sizes in some horrible places. Breaking my back through covid picking up multiple people day in day out. My main boss got half the business for sleeping with the original owner and then dumping him and bringing in his new fellar, making him a manager and paying him a very good wage for literally doing nothing. Literally zero work. He just has a title. I can't emphasize this enough, literally 0 work. Anyway me and another colleague, the only 2 in the business that do everything from body preparation to directing. Going to the funerals, working round the building keeping it going, sorting the cars, sorting literally everything while they do nothing. Absolutely nothing. They…

Maybe I'm just looking for a place to complain about this, or maybe I just want to feel validated in my thinking…I don't know. But last week, i got really sick, tried to push through but my breathing turned into a problem so I had to miss 2 1/2 days of work abd get breathing treatments and meds from an urgent care. And now this morning my kiddo is puking with a fever so I have to call in AGAIN. And I hate the fact that I feel guilty for missing work again. And I hate the fact that I was trying to come up with ways to force my sick kid to go to school, but… why on earth would I, should I or could I make my child suffer? Because I tried to? Because my boss will be mad at me?? Why would I push my kid so…

I am shocked to be writing. This, normally management is the issue but I finally found a job that has pretty decent management however, you cant have it all. Some of my co-workers are the petty type that will drag you down for being successful. I am happy at my job, theres a lot of downtime so we are allowed to kill time doing whatever we want which is awesome. I use the time to browse the internet, read the news, and work on my side business. Many of the other workers will watch tiktok or youtube or text or call their friends the entire shift. One of my co workers had the audacity to write a complaint about me working on my side business during work hours because I am “double dipping”. First off, my bosses have literally given me permission to have a whole ass second job if…