Antiwork

My boss supposedly has a PhD and calls himself “Dr.” on Teams, which I’ve never seen anyone do in a workplace before. (This is not a medical or educational company). He has absolutely no idea what he’s doing on the job. He’s supposed to be our team lead but cannot do even the simplest of tasks. I honestly don’t know what he spends his entire day doing (other than joining in on meetings for projects he doesn’t contribute to and agreeing with everyone). Literally. That’s all I’ve seen him do. We’ve recently had some people laid off and he was supposed to step in to lend a hand on various projects but he had no idea how to do them. Even with painstaking explanations and instructions from “us underlings”, anything he worked on had to be redone because of errors. I’ve worked in places before where I didn’t always think…

First off I’m a hard working husband and father to 3 young kids. Recently I was called into my boss office where he proceeded to talk to me about my usage of sick leave for the past whole year. He showed me that I had used my sick leave on 10 separate occasions with 5 of those occasions coming by way of pre-approved sick leave (sick leave approved in advance for various appointments) and the other 5 occasions were single day call-offs for various reasons involving my kids getting sick on different occasions & once when I was sick myself. When my boss asked me to improve on my attendance, I immediately let him know that I have a young family and a wife that also works full-time and has her own health issues to deal with so it is very difficult to predict or prevent when my kids or…