Antiwork

I originally posted this in r/childfree, so if hating on parents triggers you, you might wanna skip this post. Just for context, im in the UK. My manager always preaches the whole 'people with kids get priority with bookkng leave', and emphasises that's particularly important during summer holidays or any time that kids have off school. Due to my team being small, we can only have one person take leave at any given time, even though I think we could easily cope with 2 people out at the same time for a week every now and then. A particular colleague had 3 weeks off during August last year, blocking anyone from taking theirs for the majority of the month, and I joined the company in June, so it was far too late to book anything for the summer, so I thought, well, I'll just book some leave in the summer…

Told me that I’m on probation period and that its not looking good for me because I called in sick few weeks after joining. Is a person not 'allowed’ to get sick just because they newly joined an organisation??? What the fuck? I’m so pissed.

Today is the last day my bosses won't know I've been secretly organising a union for the last 2 years.

I had a huge fever on Saturday and decided to work from home. My temperature was 38.9C and I called my team lead to tell her that I will barely manage to finish todays work due to being sick and that I will note all the missing things that I havent done.Tommorow morning my fever hasnt got any better and every single part of my body was aching from pain and even going to the bathroom was painful to me.I called my team lead to tell her that she needs to fill me in because there is no possible way of me doing the workload that I have for Sunday.During the day she posted in our group chat in slack critizing my work from yesterday. NOTE: I told her I was sick, how high my temperature is and how everything hurts in my body when I move and i also…