So to keep a very long story short, where I work is a fucking shitshow. We're chronically underpaid, understaffed, under-trained and overworked. The other teams meant to help us sit and do nothing whilst we have to take the shit for their uselessness and we can't dare say anything to them or about them. This job has absolutely wrecked my mental health due to stress and depression of how dead end it is and it has pretty much done the same for almost everyone else who works here. We've had no manager or team lead properly for months, our old manager went on the sick and then got a new job whilst on it (we weren't notified as a team and rather told “oh yeah he'll be back next week”) and the team lead we had was left doing two jobs with no support.
Forward through to now, I was working my notice period before starting my new job and had only a week to go but they finally pushed me over the edge. I took my 5 year old son to school and in their eyes, decided to proceed to speak to me like absolute shit and how it's not acceptable to do so. (This is from a stand in manager who has no idea how to run a service desk) Saying shit to me like “We shouldn't have this inconvenience again” which for reference, I live 5 minutes from my son's school.
Emails were passed to and fro and finally I just thought “fuck it I am DONE” and told the prick that I'd be getting a self certified sick note covering my final week of work as I would not endure any further poor treatment from them. The beauty of it is, due to the nature of the emails (explicit mentions of mental health and their exacerbation of it) means that they 1, cannot legally sack me or end my notice as it constitutes unfair dismissal and 2, our contractual sick pay means I'll still be getting full pay.
On a final note, I also have a shit ton of holiday time that they'll be legally obligated to pay me so.. quids in!