So let me preface this a bit, I work for a telecoms company, the last 2 and a half weeks, we’ve been getting absolutely hammered on support, at least 2 outages a week which means we can’t actually get anything fixed because we’re too busy having to answer calls for people who can’t listen to a call message telling them of a nationwide outage, last week we had the biggest outage in the company’s history, everything went down, it was 9 hours straight of handling people and repeating ourselves. Everyone else in my team has had a day off at some point to help with the stress except me.
For the last few days the stress has been getting to me, being one of the more senior members who can work all of the brands we have, my workload is always exponentially higher than most people. But I’ve not been sleeping and struggling to eat, today I woke up with such an existential dread in me from the amount of crap I was going to have to endure again today.
So I’ve just not bothered, I called in sick, told them I had been vomiting all morning (not true, that was last night from stress) and put the phone down. If I’m sick they usually try and get me to work from home instead, but I need a me day today, I just want to be able to be able to release everything I’ve been stressing out about, nobody bugging me every 15 minutes to ask me how to do their job, nobody asking me for updates on XYZ issue, nobody wanting me to anything for them.
And for the first time I don’t feel even a modicum of guilt about it, so I’m going to be trying to chill and playing video games for the first time in about a month, if anyone needs me, don’t.