Antiwork

So here’s the context. My dog has treatable cancer. It has been super fucking stressful of course, and expensive, but the end of the tunnel is in sight. She has surgery scheduled for the 4th of November, $600 deposit already paid. The work schedule for that week had not been written as of last week when I grabbed the appointment, and is still being written today. I requested in writing for that day off last week. My manager does not know it is for my dog—as far as she is aware, it is for me. Reason for that is that as soon as she found out about my dog issues (I was crying, so she found out), she informed me a sick dog is not a reason to call out. (Unprompted mind you, I was crying, she asked what was wrong, I told her, she “aww there there”’d me, then…